The PSRS consists of seven weekly
surveys that make up the Weekly Petroleum Supply Reporting System
(WPSRS), eight monthly surveys, and one annual survey. The weekly
petroleum and biofuels supply surveys collect data on petroleum
refinery operations, blending, biofuels production, inventory
levels, imports of crude oil, petroleum products, and biofuels from
samples of operating companies. The monthly and annual petroleum
and biofuels supply surveys collect data on petroleum refinery
operations, blending, biofuels production, natural gas plant
liquids production, inventory levels, imports, inter-regional
movements, and storage capacity for crude oil, petroleum products,
and biofuels.
US Code:
15
USC 772(b) Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration Act
Amendments of 1976
US Code: 42
USC 7101 Name of Law: Department of Energy Organization Act
US Code: 15
USC 764(b) Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration
US Code: 15
USC 790(a) Name of Law: Federal Energy Administration Act
Amendments of 1974
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
pretesting interviews 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 Supply surveys for the following
clearance schedule. This will help improve ongoing surveys and
reduce errors due to respondent confusion. The net reduction of
-23,153 hours in annual burden from 2022 is primarily based on
EIA’s online cognitive testing, which collected substantially
decreased respondent-reported burden estimates for the EIA-800,
EIA-805, EIA-810, and EIA-815. (See A.8. Summary of Consultations
Outside Agency for specific key findings.) Given this key finding
that technology has substantially reduced reporting burden for
respondents on these four surveys, EIA decided to reduce the burden
to respond (annual hours) by 10%, the exception is the EIA-804 and
EIA-814 based on the 2019 cognitive research described in section
A8 of the Supporting Statement A. Adding respondents for EIA-806
increased the total number of respondents, but the overall burden
decreased because of the reassessment of burden hours as a result
of the pretesting.
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 EXAMPLE of Pretest Pretesting
2022-21883_EIA_Notice OMB No. 19050165_PSRS 30day FRN.pdf
Supporting Statement B PSRS_FINAL.docx
Pretesting