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[Federal Register: February 27, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 39)]
[Notices]               
[Page 12506-12507]
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 (Public Law 104-13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 
et seq).

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before March 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 Energy, Washington, DC 
20585-0670. Ms. 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-886, ``Annual Survey of Alternative Fueled Vehicle 
Suppliers and Users.''
    2. Energy Information Administration.
    3. OMB Number 1905-0191.
    4. Three-year extension with revisions of a currently approved 
collection.
    5. Mandatory.
    6. EIA's ``Annual Survey of Alternative Fueled Vehicle Suppliers

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and Users'' collects basic data necessary to meet EIA's legislative 
mandates as well as the needs of EIA's public and private customers. 
Data collected include the number and type of Alternative Fueled 
Vehicles (AFVs) that vehicle suppliers made available in the previous 
calendar year and plan to make available in the following calendar 
year; the number, type and geographic distribution of AFVs in use in 
the previous calendar year; and the amount and distribution of each 
type of Alternative Transportation Fuel (ATF) consumed in the previous 
calendar year. The data are used for analyses and publications.
    7. Federal, State and Local governments; fuel providers; Original 
Equipment Manufacturers; and Conversion facilities.
    8. 10,323 hours ( 2,491 respondents  x 1 response(s) per year  
x 4.1 hours per response).


    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, February 20, 2001.
Jay H. Casselberry,
Agency Clearance Officer, Statistics and Methods Group, Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-4734 Filed 2-26-01; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P

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