Notice2025-20775
Agency Information Collection Extension
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Published
November 24, 2025
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Energy DepartmentEnergy Information Administration
Abstract
EIA invites public comment on the proposed three-year extension, without changes, to the Coal Markets Reporting System (CMRS), as required under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The CMRS consists of five surveys including, Form EIA-3 Quarterly Survey of Non- Electric Sector Coal Data, Form EIA-7A Annual Survey of Coal Production and Preparation, Form EIA-8A Annual Survey of Coal Stocks and Coal Exports, Form EIA-6 Emergency Coal Supply Survey (Standby), and Form EIA-20 Emergency Weekly Coal Monitoring Survey for Coal Burning Power Producers (Standby.) The CMRS collects data on U.S. coal production, quality, consumption, receipts, stocks, and prices. EIA requests the extension to Forms EIA-3, EIA-6, EIA-7A, EIA-8A, and EIA-20 without change.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 224 (Monday, November 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52927-52928]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20775]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Extension
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: EIA invites public comment on the proposed three-year
extension, without changes, to the Coal Markets Reporting System
(CMRS), as required under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The CMRS
consists of five surveys including, Form EIA-3 Quarterly Survey of Non-
Electric Sector Coal Data, Form EIA-7A Annual Survey of Coal Production
and Preparation, Form EIA-8A Annual Survey of Coal Stocks and Coal
Exports, Form EIA-6 Emergency Coal Supply Survey (Standby), and Form
EIA-20 Emergency Weekly Coal Monitoring Survey for Coal Burning Power
Producers (Standby.) The CMRS collects data on U.S. coal production,
quality, consumption, receipts, stocks, and prices. EIA requests the
extension to Forms EIA-3, EIA-6, EIA-7A, EIA-8A, and EIA-20 without
change.
DATES: EIA must receive all comments on this proposed information
collection no later than January 23, 2026. If you anticipate any
difficulties in submitting your comments by the deadline, contact the
person listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice as soon as
possible.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by OMB control number
1905-0167, by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d5909c94f893879bb6bab8b8b0bba1a695b0bcb4fbb2baa3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="24616d650962766a474b4949414a505764414d450a434b52">[email protected]</span></a>. Include the OMB control
number listed in the subject line of the message. The forms and
instructions are available on EIA's website:
FORM EIA-3: <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-3">https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-3</a>
FORM EIA-6: <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-6">https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-6</a>
FORM EIA-7A: <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-7a">https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-7a</a>
FORM EIA-8A: <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-8a">https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-8a</a>
FORM EIA-20: <a href="https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-20">https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-20</a>
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samson Adeshiyan, EIA Clearance
Officer, at (202) 586-7777 or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fabfb3bbd7bca8b4999597979f948e89ba9f939bd49d958c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4d08040c600b1f032e2220202823393e0d28242c632a223b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB Control Number: 1905-0167;
(2) Information Collection Request Title: Coal Markets Reporting
System;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year extension without change;
(4) Purpose: The Coal Markets Reporting System (CMRS) program
collects, evaluates, assembles, analyzes, and disseminates information
on coal production, sales, technology, reserves, and related economic
and statistical information. This information is used to assess the
adequacy of coal and other energy resources to meet near and longer-
term domestic demands and to promote sound policymaking, efficient
markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with
the economy and the environment. Form EIA-3 collects quarterly data on
the use of coal at U.S. manufacturing plants, coal transformation/
processing plants, coke plants, and commercial and institutional users
of coal.
Form EIA-7A collects coal production operations, characteristics of
coalbeds mined, recoverable reserves, production capacity, coal sales
and revenue, stocks held at mines, and the disposition of the coal
mined. For coal preparation, information collected includes operations,
locations, production capacity, disposition, and volume of coal
prepared.
Form EIA-8A collects data on coal stocks by state location,
exported coal by origin state, and export revenue of coal sold during
the reporting year.
Form EIA-6 Emergency Coal Supply Survey and Form EIA-20 Emergency
Weekly Coal Monitoring Survey for Coal Burning Power Producers are
standby surveys used during periods of coal supply and transportation
disruptions. In the event of a supply or transportation disruption,
these two standby surveys activate and operate weekly over a ten-week
period. Once activated, Form EIA-6 collects weekly coal production and
stocks data from U.S. coal mining companies. Data are aggregated and
reported at the state level. During disruptive events, Form EIA-20
collects available coal-fired capacity, generation, consumption, and
stocks from coal-fired electric power generators.
The CMRS also collects coal market data. The data elements include
production, consumption, receipts, stocks, sales, and prices.
Information pertaining to the quality of the coal is
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also collected, including heat content, ash content, sulfur content and
contents of mercury. Aggregates of this collection are used to support
analysis on the effects of public policy on the coal industry, economic
modeling, forecasting, coal supply and demand studies, and in guiding
research and development programs. The data are included in EIA
publications, such as the Monthly Energy Review, Quarterly Coal Report,
Quarterly Coal Distribution Report, Annual Coal Report, and Annual Coal
Distribution Report.
EIA also uses the data in short-term and long-term forecast models
such as the Short-Term Integrated Forecasting System (STIFS) and the
National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) Coal Market Module. The forecast
data also appear in the Short-Term Energy Outlook and the Annual Energy
Outlook publications.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 833.
<bullet> Form EIA-3 will consist of 290 respondents;
<bullet> Form EIA-7A will consist of 480 respondents;
<bullet> Form EIA-8A will consist of 44 respondents;
<bullet> Form EIA-6 (standby) will consist of 10 respondents;
<bullet> Form EIA-20 (standby) will consist of 9 respondents.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,874
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 3,149
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$299,123 (3,149 burden hours times $94.99 per hour). EIA estimates that
there are no additional costs to respondents associated with the
surveys other than the costs associated with the burden hours since the
information is maintained during normal course of business.
Comments are invited on whether or not: (a) The proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of agency
functions, including whether the information will have a practical
utility; (b) EIA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used, is accurate; (c) EIA can improve the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information it will collect; and (d) EIA can minimize
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, such as
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Signed in Washington, DC, on November 20, 2025.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U. S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-20775 Filed 11-21-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P
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