Notice2025-06877
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules
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Published
April 28, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an information collection request (ICR), Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules (EPA ICR Number 2691.03, OMB Control Number 2060-0740) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2025. This notice allows for 60 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 80 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17593-17594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06877]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0085; FRL-12667-01-OAR; EPA ICR No. 2691.03, OMB
Control Number 2060-0740]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Information
Collection Request; Comment Request; Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
Program: RFS Annual Rules
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to
submit an information collection request (ICR), Renewable Fuel Standard
(RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules (EPA ICR Number 2691.03, OMB Control
Number 2060-0740) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects
of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through
October 31, 2025. This notice allows for 60 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2025-0085, to EPA online using <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (our preferred
method), by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e283cf838c86cf90cf868d81898796a2879283cc858d94"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="91f0bcf0fff5bce3bcf5fef2faf4e5d1f4e1f0bff6fee7">[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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne-Marie C. Pastorkovich, Office of
Air and Radiation, Mail Code 6405A, Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-
343-9623; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#55253426213a273e3a233c363d7b343b3b30783834273c30153025347b323a23"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a6d6c7d5d2c9d4cdc9d0cfc5ce88c7c8c8c38bcbc7d4cfc3e6c3d6c788c1c9d0">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through October 31, 2025. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
This document allows 60 days for public comments. 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>.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting
comments and information to enable it to: (i) evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (ii) evaluate the accuracy of
the Agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (iv) minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate forms of information technology. EPA
will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate.
The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and
approval. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice
to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: This ICR is for provisions regarding biointermediates in
the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. A ``biointermediate'' is
produced from a renewable biomass feedstock at a biointermediate
production facility and is not itself a renewable fuel; the
biointermediate will be processed into a renewable fuel at a subsequent
renewable fuel production facility. The biointermediate provisions were
included in the EPA's finale rulemaking to establish RFS volume
standards for 2020, 2021, and 2022 (87 FR 39600, July 1, 2022).
The recordkeeping and reporting requirements allow the EPA to
monitor compliance of biointermediate producers, renewable
identification number (RIN) generators who are renewable fuel producers
who use biointermediates, biointermediate importers, and specific third
parties (e.g., quality assurance plan, or QAP, providers). This ICR is
related to the general collection related to RFS, which bears OMB
Control No. 2060-0725 (expiring November 30, 2025).
Form Numbers: RFS0107 (5900-631), RFS0602 (5900-290), RFS0702
(5900-289), RFS0801 (5900-293), RFS0902 (5900-278), RFS2001 (5900-633),
RFS2101 (5900-634), RFS2201 (5900-636), RFS2301 (5900-636), RFS2400
(5900-361), RFS4000 (5900-529).
Respondents/affected entities: Biointermediate producers, RIN
generators (renewable fuel producers), biointermediate importers, third
parties (including QAP providers).
Respondent's obligation to respond: mandatory under 40 CFR parts 80
and 1090.
Estimated number of respondents: 926 (total).
Frequency of response: quarterly, annually, on occasion.
Total estimated burden: 21,942 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,556,191 (per year), which includes $0
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a decrease of 145,443 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to far fewer parties who have
actually registered as biointermediate producers than the original
estimates anticipated in the RFS final rule for 2020-2022 as a
potential upper limit. Since the initial estimates were made, we now
know that very few parties (far fewer than 10) have registered as
biointermediate producers, although we anticipated as many as 60 might
register at the start of the program. Similarly, we now know from
registrations that very few parties (far fewer than 10) have registered
as RIN generators related to biointermediates, although we anticipated
as many as 90 at the start. We have readjusted our estimates to reflect
the reality of
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participation in the first three years of this ICR.
Byron Bunker,
Director, Implementation, Analysis and Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-06877 Filed 4-25-25; 8:45 am]
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