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Public Utility District No. 1 of Clark
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Uniper Global
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

EIA has submitted an
information collection request to OMB
for extension under the provisions of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The information collection requests a
three-year extension with changes of its
Natural Gas Data Collection Program,
under OMB Control No. 1905–0175. The
proposed collection will provide
information on the supply and
disposition of natural gas within the
United States.
DATES: Comments regarding this
information collection must be received
on or before November 27, 2017. If you
anticipate that you will be submitting
comments, but find it difficult to do so
within the period of time allowed by
this notice, please advise the DOE Desk
Officer at OMB of your intention to
make a submission as soon as possible.
The Desk Officer may be telephoned at
202–395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to Chad S. Whiteman, DOE Desk
Officer, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503, Chad S [email protected].
and to Mr. Michael Kopalek, U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S. Energy

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Information Administration EI–25, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20585, [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Michael Kopalek, 202–586–
4001, [email protected], https://
www.eia.gov/survey/notice/
ngdownstreamforms2018.php.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB Control Number 1905–0175;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Natural Gas Data Collection
Program;
The surveys covered by this
information collection request include:
• Form EIA–176, Annual Report of
Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply
and Disposition
• Form EIA–191, Monthly
Underground Gas Storage Report
• Form EIA–757, Natural Gas
Processing Plant Survey
• Form EIA–857, Monthly Report of
Natural Gas Purchases and Deliveries to
Consumers
• Form EIA–910, Monthly Natural
Gas Marketer Survey
• Form EIA–912, Weekly
Underground Natural Gas Storage
Report
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: The surveys included in
the Natural Gas Data Collection Program
Package collect information on natural
gas underground storage, supply,
processing, transmission, distribution,
consumption by sector, and consumer
prices. This information is used to
support public policy analyses of the
natural gas industry and estimates
generated from data collected on these
surveys. The statistics generated from
these surveys are posted to the EIA Web

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Order 4080 granting blanket authority
to import/export natural gas from/to
Canada/Mexico.
Order 4081 granting blanket authority
to import/export natural gas from/to
Canada/Mexico.
Order 4082 granting blanket authority
to import/export natural gas from/to
Mexico.
Order 4083 granting blanket authority
to import/export natural gas from/to
Canada.
Order 3764–A vacating blanket authority to import/export natural gas from/
to Canada.
Order 4085 granting blanket authority
to import/export natural gas from/to
Canada.

site (http://www.eia.gov) and in various
EIA products, including the Weekly
Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR),
Natural Gas Monthly (NGM), Natural
Gas Annual (NGA), Monthly Energy
Review (MER), Short-Term Energy
Outlook (STEO), Annual Energy
Outlook (AEO), and Annual Energy
Review (AER). EIA requests a three-year
extension of collection authority for
each of the above-referenced surveys
with changes to Forms EIA–176, EIA–
191, EIA–757, EIA–910, and EIA–912.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection:
Form EIA–176, Annual Report of
Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply
and Disposition
Form EIA–176 collects data on
natural, synthetic, and other
supplemental gas supplies, their
disposition, and certain revenues by
state. The changes include:
a. Add a question in Part 3(B) to ask
respondents if they have an alternativefueled vehicle fleet and how many and
what kind of vehicles make up the fleet.
This information improves survey frame
coverage and data accuracy reported on
Form EIA–886, Annual Survey of
Alternative Fueled Vehicles;
b. A new section Part 3(E) asking local
distribution companies to provide all
the counties where they deliver natural
gas for end-use consumption. This
information enables EIA to estimate the
approximate service territory for a local
distribution company. EIA has received
public inquiries about service territories
associated with natural gas distributors
and this information will be useful to
EIA and the public for understanding
this retail market sector.
c. Addition of a question in Part 3(F)
asking respondents for the names and
zip codes of any aboveground liquefied
(LNG) natural gas storage facilities that

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are owned, operated, or provide services
to a survey respondent. This enables
EIA to facilitate collection of LNG data
by operators and their locations;
d. Discontinue collecting the costs
associated with purchase gas received
within the service area. EIA has the
capability to estimate values for this
activity using monthly data. Deleting
this data element reduces respondent
reporting burden and relieves EIA
resources used to validate the
information;
e. Discontinue the collection of yearend natural gas pump price in Part 3
Item B4. EIA determined that this
question had large variation in data
quality and inconsistent reporting
methodologies.
f. Move Part 6 Line 12.4 (from the
drop down menu selection) sub-item
9096, ‘‘Other Natural gas consumed in
your operations: Vaporization/LNG
Fuel,’’ to make it a standalone line item
as new Line 12.4, called ‘‘Vaporization/
Liquefaction/LNG Fuel.’’ The collection
of ‘‘Other Natural Gas’’ consumed in
operations that was previously listed on
Line 12.4 will be shown as a new Line
12.6 in Part 6 with the three other drop
down choices (Utilities Use, Other, and
Other Expenses) available to the user. In
the past, many respondents have missed
reporting this data element. The change
is designed to improve the coverage and
accuracy of respondents reporting this
information and will assist EIA in its
modeling and analysis; and
g. Add a question in Part 6 Line 12.5,
‘‘Vehicle fuel used in company fleet’’ to
collect information on fuel consumption
by company vehicles. Based on
cognitive testing of Form EIA–176 form,
respondents were reporting natural gas
vehicle fuel for their own company fleet
as company use. This affects the
accuracy of the vehicle fuel volumes
and prices reported in Part 6 Items 10.5
and 11.5. Company consumption
volumes do not have associated revenue
and should not be included in 10.5 and
11.5. Adding this question gives
respondents a place on Form EIA–176 to
report company-owned vehicle fuel
volumes and improve the accuracy of
vehicle fuel prices based on Part 6 Items
10.5 and 11.5.
Form EIA–191, Monthly Underground
Gas Storage Report
Form EIA–191 collects data on the
operations of all active underground
storage facilities. EIA is making the
following changes to Form EIA–191:
a. Remove ‘‘Other’’ as a response
option under ‘‘type of facility’’ question
in Part 3 of the survey form.
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This open ended facility category did
not provide its intended utility and as
a result EIA is deleting it.
Form EIA–757, Natural Gas Processing
Plant Survey
Form EIA–757 collects information on
the capacity, status, and operations of
natural gas processing plants, and
monitors their constraints to natural gas
supplies during catastrophic events,
such as hurricanes. Schedule A of Form
EIA–757 is used to collect data every
three years. Schedule A collects
baseline operating and capacity
information from all respondents.
Schedule A was used to collect
information in 2015 and the next
planned collection for Schedule A is
2018. Schedule B is activated as needed
and collects data from a sample of
respondents in affected areas as needed.
Schedule B was last activated in 2012
when Hurricane Isaac damaged energy
supply infrastructure along the Gulf
Coast. A sample of approximately 20
plants reported in 2012 during that
supply disruption. EIA is continuing the
collection of the same data elements on
Form EIA–757 Schedules A and B in
their present form with two protocol
changes:
a. Collect Schedule A data for new
natural gas processing plants that
opened and began operations during the
current three-year data collection cycles.
This minor protocol change allows EIA
to maintain a current frame at all times
rather than updating the survey frame
every three years when a new data
collection cycle begins;
b. Collect ‘‘processing throughput
capacity’’ information in Schedule A on
an annual basis. This allows EIA to
track recent changes in natural gas
processing plant capacities, a key piece
of information needed for using Form
EIA–757 Schedule B Emergency
Activation portion of the survey during
a natural disaster or similar crisis
situation.
Form EIA–912 Weekly Underground
Natural Gas Storage Report
Form EIA–912 collects information on
weekly inventories of natural gas in
underground storage facilities. This is
one change to Form EIA–912 to include
an additional geographic data element
for Inventory of Working Gas in Storage
as described below:
a. Divide the ‘‘South Central’’
reporting region into ‘‘South Central
Salt’’ and ‘‘South Central Nonsalt.’’
Currently EIA categorizes storage
operators as either Salt facilities or
Nonsalt facilities and allocates their
volumes entirely to that region. This
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allocate volumes in their reported data
between Salt facilities and Nonsalt
facilities in order to improve the
accuracy of EIA’s published estimates
on underground storage. For example,
under the current methodology,
volumes reported by a respondent with
majority salt storage would be allocated
entirely to the ‘‘South Central Salt’’
region, even if nearly half of their
volumes were stored in nonsalt
facilities. Currently, operators with
more than 15 billion cubic feet of
storage capacity in the South Central
region report volumes separately
between Salt facilities or Nonsalt
facilities. This change will require all
operators in the reporting sample to
report the same way.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Survey Respondents: 3,340.
EIA–176 consists of 2,050
respondents.
EIA–191 consists of 145 respondents.
EIA–757 Schedule A consists of 600
respondents.
EIA–757 Schedule B consists of 20
respondents.
EIA–857 consists of 330 respondents.
EIA–910 consists of 100 respondents.
EIA–912 consists of 95 respondents.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 14,227.
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 50,724.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The
information is maintained in the normal
course of business. The cost of the
burden hours is estimated to be $3,736,
330 (50,724 burden hours times $73.66
per hour). Other than the cost of burden
hours, EIA estimates that there are no
additional costs for generating,
maintaining and providing the
information.
Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of
the Federal Energy Administration Act
of 1974, Pub. L. 93–275, codified as 15
U.S.C. 772(b) and the DOE Organization
Act of 1977, Pub. L. 95–91, codified at
42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC on October 17,
2017.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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