About the Energy Information Administration’s Budget
EIA receives funding for its activities with an annual appropriation from the Congress. In Congress, our budget is reviewed by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water Development.

EIA is one of 12 Federal Statistical agencies whose budgets range from nearly $1,230 million for the Bureau of the Census to about $41 million for the Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income. EIA's budget ranks fifth in size and is about 4% of the total budget for the Federal statistical agencies.

Our FY 2008 budget is $95.5 million, with a Federal staffing level of 374 people. About 50% of the budget is used to pay the Federal staff. Another 42% of the budget funds about 250 support service contractors that are used to help us design and run our energy data and analysis systems. The remaining 8% of the budget pays for office space and other administrative expenses such as telephones and office supplies.

Our budget is divided into eight offices with funding, on average, distributed as follows:

The FY 2008 funding supports on-going operations, with a focus on:

1. Maintaining critical energy data coverage, analysis, and forecasting;
2. Completing development and launching of monthly ethanol and biofuels data collections as mandated in Section 1508 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;
3. Continuing two petroleum marketing surveys, the EIA-856 Monthly Foreign Crude Oil Acquisition Report and the EIA-182 Domestic Crude Oil First Purchase Report in response to strong support from Congress and other Federal agencies; and
4. Resuming collection of the EIA-767 environmental data essential to the Environmental Protection Agency, States, and other stakeholders.

For FY 2009, EIA has requested a budget of $110.6 million with a Federal staffing level of 375 people.  After February 4, 2008, EIA’s FY 2009 Congressional Budget submission can be viewed at http://www.cfo.doe.gov/crorg/cf30.htm.

Doing Business With EIA
Contracting and procurement for EIA, including opportunities for small businesses, are handled by the agency’s Office of Resource Management. Federal government-wide contracting opportunities can be found at FedBizOpps.

Performance Measures
As a statistical survey organization, EIA has used a variety of measures to assess its performance for many years, including measures to monitor operations of specific surveys and processes. In addition, we use several measures to assess our overall performance, and currently have three measures that we report on annually and are included in our budget. 

• Customer survey results: We have conducted at least one agency-wide customer satisfaction survey each year since the mid-1990s.  The customer survey results provide important insights into how satisfied users are with our information, who our customers are, how our information is used, and areas for future improvements.  Our most recent survey, which was fielded in July 2007 on our website, collected 5,000 responses in three weeks and provided a wealth of customer information. We plan to conduct another web-based customer survey in 2008.

• Meeting scheduled release dates: Many users of our information rely on our information to be available on schedule. We again strived to meet these release dates this past year despite disruptions of the workplace during building renovations. 

• Cost savings: As a small agency, we monitor our costs closely, and have found ways to reduce real costs for some surveys despite rising costs in many areas. 

The following table shows our current results and targets.

Additional information about our performance is contained in the DOE Performance and Accountability Report. 

For questions on the EIA Budget please contact Gale Kabat, (202) 586-2469; for questions on the Performance Measures please contact Tom Broene, (202) 586-5774.

Last updated: January 2008