[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 143 (Thursday, July 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48464-48465]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15962]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-11229-01-OAR]


Notice of Transfer of Data Potentially Claimed as Confidential 
Business Information Under the Clean Air Act to the United States 
Energy Information Administration

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that information submitted to the 
Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation, Office 
of Transportation and Air Quality, pursuant to the Clean Air Act, 
including information that may be claimed as Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) by the submitter, will be transferred to the United 
States Energy Information Administration (EIA), a Federal agency. EPA 
is responding to a written request from EIA, seeking information about 
active, registered biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel producers. 
Specifically, EIA has requested data for parties who have generated 
RINs in recent years.

DATES: Access by EIA to this material, including CBI, discussed in this 
Notice, is ongoing and expected to occur beginning August 7, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne-Marie Pastorkovich, Attorney/
Advisor, Compliance Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality; 
telephone number: 202-343-9623; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA is providing notice of disclosure 
pursuant to a written request by EIA under 40 CFR 2.209(c). EPA 
collects various data, including registration and compliance 
information, to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and 
other fuels programs under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act. This 
includes collecting information from submitter companies about their 
facilities, products, and generation and use of renewable 
identification numbers (RINs). The data may be claimed as CBI by the 
submitter.
    EIA is a Federal agency that ``. . . collects, analyzes, and 
disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote 
sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of 
energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.'' \1\ 
EPA is responding to a written request from EIA, seeking information 
about certain registered biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel producers. 
Specifically, EIA has requested data about those registrants they 
consider to be ``active,'' because they have generated RINs under RFS 
in recent years. An EIA employee requested this information for 
analysis and has stated that EIA does not intend to release the data to 
the public.
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    \1\ See ``About EIA,'' EIA, at https://www.eia.gov/about/ 
(accessed June 29, 2023).
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    Although EPA publishes a public list of parties who are registered 
under various Clean Air Act fuels programs,\2\ the list does not 
characterize the RIN activity level of these parties as part of the 
publicly posted data. Some of the ``active'' information requested by 
EIA may be entitled to confidential treatment. Therefore, EPA is 
publishing this notice to make submitters aware of the request and our 
intention to release data that may be entitled to confidential 
treatment to EIA.
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    \2\ See ``Public Data and Registration Lists for Fuels 
Programs,'' EPA, at https://www.epa.gov/fuels-registration-reporting-and-compliance-help/public-data-and-registration-lists-fuel-programs (accessed June 29, 2023).

Byron D. Bunker,
Director, Compliance Division.
[FR Doc. 2023-15962 Filed 7-26-23; 8:45 am]
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