Notice2022-10354
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for Which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced After May 14, 2007 (Renewal)
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Published
May 13, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced after May 14, 2007 (EPA ICR Number 2263.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0602), to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through May 31, 2022. Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on February 8, 2021, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. An agency may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 29309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10354]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0667; FRL-9854-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for Which
Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced After May 14,
2007 (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for
which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced after May
14, 2007 (EPA ICR Number 2263.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0602), to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through May 31, 2022.
Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on
February 8, 2021, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of
the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the
public. An agency may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before June 13, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0667, online using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#21454e424a44550f4e444240614451400f464e57"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="14707b777f71603a7b717775547164753a737b62">[email protected]</span></a>, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460. EPA's policy is that all
comments received will be included in the public docket without change
including any personal information provided, unless the comment
includes profanity, threats, information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI), or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
Submit written comments and recommendations to OMB for the proposed
information collection 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: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and
Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; email
address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dfbeb3b6f1b2aab1abbeacb6ad9fbaafbef1b8b0a9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f4e434601425a415b4e5c465d6f4a5f4e01484059">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at
<a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC
West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For
additional information about EPA's public docket, visit: <a href="http://www.epa.gov/dockets">http://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Abstract: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Petroleum
Refineries for which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification
Commenced after May 14, 2007 (40 CFR part 60 subpart Ja) apply to apply
to fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU), fluid coking units (FCU),
delayed coking units, fuel gas combustion devices (FGCD), process
heaters, flares and sulfur recovery plants located at new and existing
petroleum refineries that are constructed, reconstructed, or modified
after May 14, 2007. This information is being collected to assure
compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ja.
In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications,
performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the
affected facilities. They are also required to maintain records of the
occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the
operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the
monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and
records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Petroleum refineries.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60,
subpart Ja).
Estimated number of respondents: 129 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 431,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $171,000,000 (per year), which includes
$120,000,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation &
maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in burden from the
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory
of Approved Burdens. This increase is due primarily to an increase in
the number of facilities at existing petroleum refineries subject to
Subpart Ja. The petroleum refining industry has been decreasing in
size, but as facilities at refineries are either constructed, modified,
or reconstructed, they become newly subject to Subpart Ja. This ICR
adjusts the number of facilities at refineries to reflect those sources
constructed, modified, or reconstructed over the last three years.
Since these newly affected facilities are required to install
monitoring equipment to comply with the regulations, this has resulted
in increases in capital/startup costs, performance testing costs, and
operating and maintenance (O&M) costs, as well as for labor burden
associated with periodic testing.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-10354 Filed 5-12-22; 8:45 am]
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