The Petroleum Marketing Program
surveys collect information on retail and wholesale sales and
prices, and distribution for crude oil and petroleum products. Data
are published in petroleum publications and in multi-fuel reports.
Respondents are refiners, first purchasers of domestic crude oil,
gas plant operators, resellers/retailers, motor gasoline
wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and importers.
US Code:
15
USC 790a Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration Act of
1974
US Code: 15
USC 772(b) Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration Act of
1974
US Code: 15
USC 764 Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration Act of
1974
US Code: 42
USC 6385 Name of Law: Petroleum Product Information
US Code: 42
USC 6274 Name of Law: Exchange of Information with the
International Agency
US Code: 42
USC 13233 Name of Law: Data Acquisition Program
There will be an increase of 50
new respondents per year with an annual burden of 75 hours. This
increase is due to the program wanting to continually improve its
data collection and survey initiatives. EIA will conduct up to 50
evaluative methodology techniques each year for testing purposes.
These methodologies will test or evaluate new terminology, unclear
questions in surveys, unclear instructions, or questions that may
be added to the Petroleum Marketing Program surveys for the
following clearance schedule. This will help improve ongoing
surveys and reduce errors due to respondent confusion. The decrease
of 359 annual burden hours as shown under “Change Due to Agency
Discretion” in Tables A2 and Table A3 is largely due to the
decrease in the number of respondents reporting on Forms EIA-14,
EIA-182, EIA-782A, EIA-782C, EIA-821, and EIA-856. This decrease is
due to changes in the market such as company mergers, acquisitions,
and deaths. Even though the overall burden decreased, there are
burden increases in the EIA-877, EIA-878, and EIA-888. EIA is
expanding the EIA-877 to year-round data collection. Due to many
requests from internal and external stakeholders, EIA will collect
a monthly residential propane and heating oil price during the
off-season, April to September, beginning April 2023. This change
will close this data gap and increase the burden hours by 722
hours. The burden increase of 929 hours for the EIA-878 is due to
selecting two supplemental birth samples since the implementation
of the original sample in May 2018. In 2018 and 2020, birth samples
of size 145 and 187, respectively, were selected. This will ensure
accurate coverage. EIA changed the sampling and estimation
methodologies for the EIA-888. This resulted in an increase of
1,407 burden hours as the sample size increased from 403 to 590
diesel fuel outlets. See Supporting Statement B for a detailed
explanation of the changes in the sample design. All changes are
reported as Changes Due to Agency Discretion because it was within
EIA’s discretion to redesign the EIA-888 sample and augment the
EIA-878 sample to ensure EIA has adequate coverage to increase the
accuracy of the retail price estimates.
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.
Form Pretesting 878/888 Pretesting and Evaluation Methodologies
Petroleum Marketing Program 30 day FRN 2021-23951.pdf
Supporting Statement B Petroleum Marketing Program_FINAL 2021.docx
Pretesting and Evaluation Methodologies