Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0414-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2015-08-19T04:00Z

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) - Information Collection Request (ICR) 
Change Worksheet 

1. Identification of the Information Collection

Title: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Permitting for Greenhouse Gases: Removal of Certain Vacated Elements

OMB control number: 2060-0003

2. Description of the Change in Requirements

In this good cause final rule, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is amending its Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and title V regulations to remove from the Code of Federal Regulations portions of those regulations that were initially promulgated in the 2010 Tailoring Rule and that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) specifically identified as vacated in the April 10, 2015, amended judgment, Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA. The rule removes from the PSD and title V regulations those vacated provisions that can be removed from the EPA regulations through a ministerial action. The removed regulations include portions of Step 2 of the Tailoring Rule as applicable to the PSD program and the PSD and title V regulations that required EPA to consider further phasing-in the GHG permitting requirements at lower GHG emission thresholds. 
3. Description of the Burden
In the regulatory impact analysis for the Tailoring Rule, we estimated that the average annual burden on an industrial respondent submitting a part C (PSD) permit application is 1,006 hours and the average annual burden on a reviewing authority processing a part C (PSD) permit application is 336 hours. By removing portions of Step 2 of the Tailoring Rule from the PSD regulations, permit applicants and reviewing authorities would not incur these part C permitting burdens for Step 2 sources. In addition, not phasing-in the GHG permitting requirements for additional sources under the PSD and title V program will further reduce burden for both permit applicants and PSD and title V permitting authorities. These potential burdens were not estimated as part of the Tailoring Rule, but would have been estimated as part of the rulemaking that would have determined whether to phase-in the PSD and title V permitting requirements at lower GHG emissions thresholds.

Therefore, to the extent this rule has any substantive effect, it relieves regulatory burdens. The rule relieves regulatory burdens by removing regulations that (1) would have required permit applicants to request PSD permits if GHGs are the only pollutant emitted by the new source or modification to an existing source above the applicable major source thresholds; (2) required the EPA to consider further phasing-in the GHG permitting requirements at lower GHG emission thresholds.