Notice2024-23621
Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey
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Published
October 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Energy DepartmentEnergy Information Administration
Abstract
EIA submitted an information collection request for clearance of the Residential Utility Disconnections Survey as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection requests a three-year clearance of a new data collection survey--Form EIA-112. Form EIA-112 is an annual survey that collects information on the number of monthly natural gas and electric service final notices, disconnections, and reconnections for bill non-payment across residential customers.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 198 (Friday, October 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82598-82599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23621]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information collection request for clearance
of the Residential Utility Disconnections Survey as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection requests a three-year
clearance of a new data collection survey--Form EIA-112. Form EIA-112
is an annual survey that collects information on the number of monthly
natural gas and electric service final notices, disconnections, and
reconnections for bill non-payment across residential customers.
DATES: Comments on this information collection must be received no
later than November 12, 2024. Written comments and recommendations for
the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find
this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under
30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Pick, EIA Clearance Officer,
at (202) 586-5562. The form and instructions are available at <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/">https://www.eia.gov/survey/</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB No.: New;
(2) Information Collection Request Title: Residential Utility
Disconnections Survey;
(3) Type of Request: New;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA-112 is an annual form that will collect 12
months of data from electric and natural gas providers about final
termination notices sent to residential customers due to bill
nonpayment, service disconnections of residential customers due to bill
nonpayment, and service reconnections of residential customers who were
disconnected due to bill nonpayment.
No national data is currently collected on this information. Some
States collect some of the data described above, but the data are
inconsistent, and publication is not uniform. Form EIA-112 aims to
better inform State and Federal policymakers on utility disconnections
by providing reliable data that can help inform appropriate levels of
budgetary support for various assistance programs across the United
States. The results of the survey will be published on the EIA website
at the aggregated national and State level, as well as at the utility
level for respondents.
EIA will conduct periodic censuses of all natural gas and electric
utilities above a certain size threshold. These censuses will cover
respondents that complete Form EIA-176 and Form EIA-861, excluding the
small electric utilities receiving Form EIA-861S. To reduce the
respondent burden of this proposed data collection, while also
considering data quality, for the years in between censuses, EIA will
use cut-off samples from Form EIA-857 and Form EIA-861M, based on
utility size and State coverage. This strategy will allow EIA to reduce
respondent burden on smaller utilities, while also producing population
estimates at the State level
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by modeling data for the utilities on the frames that were subjected to
sampling but not selected.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,130;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,130;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 2,260;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no capital and start-up costs associated with
this data collection. The information is maintained during the normal
course of business. The cost of the burden hours is estimated to be
$206,021.60 (2,260 burden hours times $91.16 per hour). Other than the
cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that there are no additional costs
for generating, maintaining, and providing this information.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Signed in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2024.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-23621 Filed 10-10-24; 8:45 am]
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