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OMB Control No: 1905-0175	ICR Reference No: 202012-1905-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201803-1905-001
Agency/Subagency: DOE/EIA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Natural Gas Data Collection Program
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 06/29/2021
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 12/08/2020
Terms of Clearance: In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, this information collection is approved. As terms of clearance, the agency should continue to research the feasibility, coverage, and logistics of consolidating forms EIA-757 Schedule A and EIA-64A to reduce duplication. Pending EIA's research, the agency should propose a merging of the forms in its renewal package for this collection.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	06/30/2024	36 Months From Approved	06/30/2021
Responses	16,297	0	14,277
Time Burden (Hours)	55,297	0	50,724
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	16,297	14,277	2,020
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	55,297	50,724	4,573
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: The increase in total burden hours are due to increases in respondents for four surveys in this ICR package. EIA-176 is adding 20 additional respondents. These respondents include Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) producers who inject high-Btu RNG into an interstate pipeline, intra-state pipeline, or natural gas distribution company system. The largest addition of burden comes from the creation of Form EIA-191L Monthly Liquefied Natural Gas Storage Report. This new survey will add 85 respondents. These respondents include peak shaving facilities and satellite LNG storage facilities. Form EIA–910 Monthly Natural Gas Marketer is adding 60 additional respondents to accommodate the increase in market participants in this particular section of the industry. EIA-912 Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report is adding 5 additional respondents to address possible increases to survey sampling sizes. In the previous OMB clearance package, Form EIA-757 Natural Gas Processing Plant Survey Schedule A was incorrectly listed as a 0.6 hour burden survey, instead of a 0.5 hour burden survey, which previously inflated its burden estimate by a small increment.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $2,490,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? Yes Part B of Supporting Statement

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Patrick Murray 202 287-6435 patrick.murray@eia.gov