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[Federal Register: July 30, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 146)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB 
review; comment request.

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SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the energy information collections 
listed at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and a three-year extension under section 3507(h)(1) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 
seq.).

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before August 29, 2001. If you 
anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult 
to do so within that period, you should contact the OMB Desk Officer 
for DOE listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the OMB Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
726 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 395-7318. (A copy of your comments should 
also be provided to EIA's Statistics and Methods Group at the address 
below.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be directed to Grace Sutherland, Statistics and Methods Group 
(EI-70), Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of

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Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670. Mrs. Sutherland may be contacted by 
telephone at (202) 287-1712, FAX at (202) 287-1705, or e-mail at 
<A HREF="mailto:grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov">grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov</A>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This section contains the following 
information about the energy information collection submitted to OMB 
for review: (1) The collection numbers and title; (2) the sponsor 
(i.e., the Department of Energy component); (3) the current OMB docket 
number (if applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e, new, revision, 
extension, or reinstatement); (5) response obligation (i.e., mandatory, 
voluntary, or required to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a description 
of the need for and proposed use of the information; (7) a categorical 
description of the likely respondents; and (8) an estimate of the total 
annual reporting burden (i.e., the estimated number of likely 
respondents times the proposed frequency of response per year times the 
average hours per response).
    1. Forms EIA-63A, ``Annual Solar Thermal Collector Manufacturers 
Survey'' and EIA-63B, ``Annual Photovoltaic Module/Cell Manufacturers 
Survey.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0196.
    4. Extension and three-year approval requested.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. EIA's Forms EIA-63A and EIA-63B collect data on the manufacture, 
shipment, and importation of solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic 
modules/cells. The data are used by the private sector, the renewable 
energy industry, the DOE, and other government agencies. Respondents 
are U. S. companies that manufactured, shipped, and/or imported solar 
thermal collectors and/or photovoltaic modules and cells.
    7. Business or other for-profit.
    8. 330 hours (110 respondents  x  1 responses per year  x  3 hours 
per response).

    Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104-13)(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

    Issued in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2001.
Nancy J. Kirkendall,
Acting Director, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy Information 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-18877 Filed 7-27-01; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P

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