[Federal Register: July 10, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 132)]
[Notices]
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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 collection listed
at the end of this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and a three-year extension with revisions 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 by August 9, 2002. 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 Bryon Allen, OMB Desk Officer for DOE,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. To ensure receipt of the comments by the due date, submission
by FAX (202-395-7285) or e-mail (BAllen@omb.eop.gov) is recommended.
The mailing address is 726 Jackson Place N.W., Washington, DC 20503.
The OMB DOE Desk Officer may be telephoned at (202) 395-3087. (A copy
of your comments should also be provided to EIA's Statistics and
Methods Group at the address below.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the materials submitted to
OMB is available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/
form_417/form_417.html. Requests for additional information should be
directed to Herbert Miller. To ensure timely receipt of any comments
sent to EIA, submission by FAX (202-287-1705) or e-mail
(herbert.miller@eia.doe.gov) is recommended. Mr. Miller's mailing
address is Statistics and Methods Group (EI-70), Forrestal Building,
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585-0670. Mr. Miller may be
contacted by telephone at (202) 287-1711.
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. Form EIA-417, ``Electric Emergency Incident and Disturbance
Report''
2. Energy Assessment/Office of Emergency Management
3. OMB Number 1901-0288
4. Revision and three-year approval requested--The EIA-417 was
previously submitted to OMB in March 2002. That request was withdrawn
in May to allow additional time for consultations and refinement of the
information collection.
Changes to the information collection from the earlier request are:
(a) Who must respond--this section on the form and instructions was
changed so that electric utilities would file the form if an incident
occurs. The reporting obligation for the utilities that handle
reliability authority functions was reduced. All electric utilities,
including those that operate Control Area Operator functions and
Reliability Authority (RA) functions, will be required to supply
information. RA's will not be required to file the number of customers
lost and amount of power lost when the incidents occur.
(b) Confidentiality--There will be a pledge of confidentiality for
all information supplied on Schedule II and any attachments filed with
Schedule II.
(c) For the Preliminary Report (Schedule I), reporting of estimates
and ``unknown at this time'' have been added for many categories.
(d) For the reporting of 50,000 customers or more lost during an
outage, it has been clarified that the outage must last longer than an
hour.
(e) An option has been granted to permit utilities to file reports
of suspected malicious or intentional incidents (physical or cyber/
computer/telecom) directly from the divisions in the utilities to the
Department.
5. Mandatory
6. Form EIA-417 collects information on electric emergency
incidents and disturbances for DOE's use in fulfilling its overall
national security and other
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energy management responsibilities. The information will also be used
by DOE for analytical purposes. All electric utilities, including those
that operate Control Area Operator functions and Reliability Authority
functions, will be required to supply information when an incident or
disturbance meets a reporting threshold.
7. Business or other for-profit; State, local or tribal government
8. 7,310 hours (3330 respondents x 2.215 hours per response)
annually. This burden estimate includes time for training personnel on
the reporting requirements.
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, DC, July 3, 2002.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-17285 Filed 7-9-02; 8:45 am]
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