The first underground natural gas storage facility annual report will cover the 2017 calendar year and the deadline for reporting will be no sooner than March 15, 2018.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2020
36 Months From Approved
10/31/2017
10,852
0
12,164
75,951
0
92,321
0
0
0
This information collection covers the collection of information from Gas pipeline operators for Incidents and Annual reports. 49 CFR § 191.15 requires each operator of an underground natural gas storage facility to submit DOT Form PHMSA F7100.2 as soon as practicable but not more than 30 days after detection of an incident. 49 CFR § 191.17 requires each operator of an underground natural gas storage facility to submit an annual report on DOT PHMSA Form 7100.4-1 by March 15, for the preceding calendar year. The first submission will be due March 15, 2018 for the 2017 calendar year.
US Code:
49 USC 60117
Name of Law: Transportation Pipeline Safety
US Code:
49 USC 60124
Name of Law: Transportation Biennial Reports
As a result of the provisions in the Safety of Underground Natural Gas Storage Facilities IFR, PHMSA created the Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility Annual Report Form PHMSA F. 7100.4-1 to capture annual report data specific to operators of underground natural gas storage facilities. The data captured from this new form is unique to underground natural gas storage facilities. Operators of underground natural gas storage facilities are also required submit incident reports within 30 days of a reportable incident. PHMSA estimates that these changes will add 128 responses and 2,520 burden hours to this information collection.
The burden associated with the Mechanical Fitting Failure Form increased from 30 minutes per report to 1 hour per report for an increased burden of 4,150 hours.
PHMSA is also revising this collection to remove the burden associated with the completion of the Gas Distribution Annual report. Currently, PHMSA estimates that 1,343 Distribution operators will submit an estimated 1,440 reports each year. PHMSA estimates that each Distribution Systems Annual Report will take 16 hours to prepare and submit resulting in an estimated annual burden of 23,040 hours (16 hours * 1,440 reports). In 2014, PHMSA took efforts to streamline the organization of its information collection activities by requesting to have the collection of Gas Distribution Systems Annual Report data moved to its own OMB. Control Number (ICR Ref. No./RCF ID 201408-2137-001). On May 14, 2015, OIRA concluded on that information collection request with the creation of OMB Control Number 2137-0629 which now carries the burden associated with the Gas Distribution Annual Report information collection. PHMSA is now taking action to remove that Gas Distribution Annual Report burden from 2137-0522 because it is duplicative. This change will result in a burden decrease of 1,440 responses and 23,040 hours for this (2137-0522) information collection.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
UNDERGROUND NATURAL GAS STORAGE FACILITY ANNUAL REPORT