Notice2025-19686
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules (Renewal)
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Published
October 29, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted 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. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on April 28, 2025, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48795-48796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19686]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0085; FRL-13054-01-OMS]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules
(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), 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. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through
October 31, 2025. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on April 28, 2025, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before November 28, 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 EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0085, 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: John D. Weihrauch Office of Air and
Radiation, Mail Code 6405A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-343-
9477; email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9beaca0a1bba8bcaaa1e7a3a6a1a789acb9a8e7aea6bf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aed9cbc7c6dccfdbcdc680c4c1c6c0eecbdecf80c9c1d8">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through October 25, 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.
Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register
on April 28, 2025 during a 60-day comment period (90 FR 17593). This
notice allows for an additional 30 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>.
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 from biointermediate producers, renewable
identification number (RIN) generators who are renewable fuel producers
who use biointermediates, biointermediate producers, 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).
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Form Numbers: RFS0107 (5900-631), RFS0602 (5900-290), RFS0702
(5900-289), RFS0801 (5900-293), RFS0902 (5900-278), RFS2001 (5900-633),
RFS2101 (5900-634), RFS2201 (5900-635), 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: 892 (total).
Frequency of response: Quarterly, annually, on occasion.
Total estimated burden: 27,871 hours (per year). Burden is defined
at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $2,062,900 (per year), which includes $0
annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a decrease of 139,514 hours in
the total estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This decrease is due to fewer regulated parties
utilizing biointermediates in the RFS than was originally anticipated.
We shared our estimates with industry respondents who perform
recordkeeping and reporting functions. Based upon their feedback we
increased some estimates in our calculations related to third party
auditor activities performed, but those did not change the overall
decrease in burden due to fewer participants.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Information Engagement Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-19686 Filed 10-28-25; 8:45 am]
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