Notice2022-16300
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries (Renewal)
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Published
July 29, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries (EPA ICR Number 1692.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0340), 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 July 31, 2021. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 12, 2020 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 145 (Friday, July 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45772-45773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16300]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OECA-2011-0234; FRL-10101-01-OMS]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries
(EPA ICR Number 1692.13, OMB Control Number 2060-0340), 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 July 31, 2021. Public comments
were previously requested via the Federal Register on May 12, 2020
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 August 29,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2011-0234, online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d0b4bfb3bbb5a4febfb5b3b190b5a0b1feb7bfa6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0c4cfc3cbc5d48ecfc5c3c1e0c5d0c18ec7cfd6">[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: Patrick Yellin, Monitoring,
Assistance, and Media Programs Division, Office of Compliance, Mail
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-2970; fax number:
(202) 564-0050; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2158444d4d484f0f5140555348424a614451400f464e57"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ceb7aba2a2a7a0e0beafbabca7ada58eabbeafe0a9a1b8">[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="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West,
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: Owners and operators of affected facilities at petroleum
refineries are required to comply with reporting and record keeping
requirements for the
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General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), as well as the specific
requirements at 40 CFR part 63, subpart CC. This includes submitting
initial notifications, performance tests and periodic reports and
results, and maintaining records. These reports are used by EPA to
determine compliance with these standards.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Petroleum refineries that are major
sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP).
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart CC).
Estimated number of respondents: 142 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly, semiannually, and
annually.
Total estimated burden: 614,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $98,000,000 (per year), which includes
$32,600,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation &
maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates:
This ICR incorporates the burden from both ICR 1692.10 and ICR
1692.12, which detail the additional burden to petroleum refineries
from the December 1, 2015 (80 FR 75178) and November 18, 2018 (83 FR
60696) amendments to the rule, respectively. The 2015 rule amendments
added new recordkeeping and reporting requirements for delayed coking
unit vents, flares used as control devices, and fenceline monitoring,
as well as additional requirements for storage vessels. The 2018 rule
amendments revised the recordkeeping requirements for maintenance vents
associated with equipment containing less than 72 lbs of VOC. This ICR
accounts for the full burden of the current rule and reflects an
increase in burden hours and responses.
This ICR, by in large, reflects the on-going burden and costs for
existing facilities, with the exception of a small number of facilities
with reconstructed units that must meet initial compliance
requirements. The burden in this ICR accounts for implementation of the
2015 amendments, which have been in effect for more than three years.
The previous ICR reflected those burdens and costs associated with the
initial activities for subject facilities, such as purchasing
monitoring equipment and establishing recordkeeping systems. As such,
the capital/startup costs as calculated in section 6(b)(iii) in this
ICR have decreased compared with the costs in the previous ICRs (ICR
1692.10 and ICR 1692.12). In the next three years, the ongoing O&M
costs for affected existing facilities at refineries from the 2015
amendments have been adjusted to include the O&M costs for pressure
relief valves to address API/APEM comments. In addition, this ICR also
adjusts the estimated number of Group 1 storage vessels subject to
requirements from 9 to 12 for each facility, per consideration of
comments by API/APFM in a letter dated February 14, 2019 and confirmed
through Agency analysis.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-16300 Filed 7-28-22; 8:45 am]
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