[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 145 (Friday, July 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45772-45773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 www.regulations.gov (our preferred 
method), or by email to [email protected], 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 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 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: [email protected].

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 
www.regulations.gov, 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: http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    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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