
[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5804-5805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-2273]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0682; FRL-9260-9]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NSPS and NESHAP for Petroleum 
Refinery Sector Residual Risk and Technology Review (RTR) (New 
Collection); EPA ICR No. 2411.01, OMB Control No. 2060-NEW

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)(44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection 
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request for a new collection. 
The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the 
information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before March 4, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2010-0682, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our 
preferred method), by e-mail to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: 
EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation 
Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 
20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for 
EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Brenda Shine, Sector Policies and 
Programs Division (E143-01), Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27711; telephone number: (919) 541-3608; fax number: (919) 541-0246; e-
mail address: shine.brenda@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB 
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 
1320.12. On September 29, 2010 (75 FR 60107), EPA sought comments on 
this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received seven comment 
letters during the comment period. Any additional comments on the ICR 
should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0682, which is available for online viewing at 
http://www.regulations.gov, or in person viewing at the Air and 
Radiation Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public 
Reading Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is 
(202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air and Radiation 
Docket is (202) 566-1742.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at 
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the 
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those 
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the 
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number 
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public 
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made 
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as EPA 
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains 
copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other 
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For 
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
    Title: NSPS and NESHAP for Petroleum Refinery Sector Residual Risk 
and Technology Review (RTR) (New Collection).
    ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2411.01, OMB Control No. 2060-NEW.
    ICR status: This ICR is for a new information collection activity. 
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations 
in title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), after appearing 
in the Federal Register when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and 
are displayed either by publication in the Federal Register or by other

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appropriate means, such as on the related collection instrument or 
form, if applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA 
regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: This information collection is being conducted by EPA's 
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) to assist the EPA Administrator, as 
required by sections 111(b), 112(d), and 112(f)(6) of the Clean Air Act 
(CAA), as amended, to reevaluate emission standards for this source 
category. The non-confidential information from this information 
collection request (ICR) would also be made available to the public.
    The proposed ICR has four components. To obtain the information 
necessary to identify and categorize all units potentially affected by 
any future revision to a standard, the first component of this ICR will 
solicit information from all potentially affected units at all 152 
refineries in the format of an electronic survey under authority of 
section 114 of the CAA. This survey will include questions about the 
facility and individual emissions sources, and it will ask the owners/
operators to submit cost data and provide copies of recent emissions 
test reports and continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS)/
continuous monitoring system (CMS) data. The second component will ask 
the owners/operators to develop and provide an emissions inventory. The 
third component will ask the owners/operators to conduct sampling and 
analysis of the feed to the distillation columns at their refinery over 
a specific time period. The first three components will be submitted to 
all facilities listed in the Energy Information Administration's 
Refinery Capacity Report 2009. The fourth component will consist of 
requiring emissions testing, again pursuant to the authority of section 
114 of the CAA.
    EPA is issuing a single collection of information for sources 
covered under 40 CFR part 63, subparts CC and UUU and 40 CFR part 60, 
subpart J so that EPA can, at one time, assess whether additional 
control strategies are necessary and, if so, which are the most 
effective for hazardous air pollutants (HAP), regulated under CAA 
section 112, and criteria air pollutants (such as particulate matter, 
sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide), regulated under CAA section 111. 
The data would also allow EPA to evaluate compliance options for 
startup and shutdown periods and consider ways to consolidate 
monitoring, reporting and recordkeeping requirements for the different 
rules under review. The data may also help EPA conduct reviews of other 
rules specific to petroleum refineries, including Standards of 
Performance for Equipment Leaks of VOC in Petroleum Refineries (40 CFR 
part 60, subpart GGG), Standards of Performance for VOC Emissions from 
Petroleum Refinery Wastewater Systems (40 CFR part 60, subpart QQQ), 
and the National Emission Standard for Benzene Waste Operations (40 CFR 
part 61, subpart FF).
    The data collected will be used to update and augment facility and 
emissions source information already available to the Agency, develop 
new estimates of the population of affected units, and identify the 
control measures and alternative emission limits being used for 
compliance with the existing rules that are under review. This 
information, along with existing emission limits, will be used to 
establish the baseline emissions and control levels for purposes of the 
regulatory reviews. The emissions test data (test reports, CEMS data, 
and CMS data) collected will be used to assess the effectiveness of 
existing control measures, examine variability in emissions, evaluate 
the stringency of existing emission limits, identify the most effective 
control measures considered for purposes of reducing residual risk, and 
provide a basis for estimating nationwide emissions from emissions 
sources for which EPA has little information. Emissions data will also 
be used, along with process and emissions unit details, to consider 
options for best demonstrated technology under the NSPS review, to 
consider subcategories for further regulation, and to estimate the 
environmental and cost impacts associated with any regulatory options 
considered.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping 
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 256 
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial 
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or 
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This 
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, 
install, and use technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, 
validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining 
information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the 
existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and 
requirements which have subsequently changed; train personnel to be 
able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; 
complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or 
otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Respondents affected by this action 
are owners/operators of petroleum refineries, all of which are expected 
to have the potential to be subject to one of the regulatory standards 
being reviewed or developed by EPA. Petroleum refineries are facilities 
engaged in refining and producing products made from crude oil or 
unfinished petroleum derivatives.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 152.
    Frequency of response: Once.
    Estimated total annual burden hours: 69,342 hours.
    Estimated total annual burden costs: $30,924,069, which includes 
$912 in O&M costs.

    Dated: January 26, 2011.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2011-2273 Filed 2-1-11; 8:45 am]
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