Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0667-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Source Performance Standards for Petroleum Refineries for which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced after May 14, 2007
Posted Date: 2022-05-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 29309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10354]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0667; FRL-9854-01-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for Which 
Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced After May 14, 
2007 (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), NSPS for Petroleum Refineries for 
which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification Commenced after May 
14, 2007 (EPA ICR Number 2263.07, OMB Control Number 2060-0602), 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 May 31, 2022. 
Public comments were previously requested, via the Federal Register, on 
February 8, 2021, 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 June 13, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2020-0667, online using https://www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred 
method), 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: Muntasir Ali, Sector Policies and 
Program Division (D243-05), Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina, 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0833; 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 
https://www.regulations.gov, or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 
West Building, 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: The New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Petroleum 
Refineries for which Construction, Reconstruction, or Modification 
Commenced after May 14, 2007 (40 CFR part 60 subpart Ja) apply to apply 
to fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU), fluid coking units (FCU), 
delayed coking units, fuel gas combustion devices (FGCD), process 
heaters, flares and sulfur recovery plants located at new and existing 
petroleum refineries that are constructed, reconstructed, or modified 
after May 14, 2007. This information is being collected to assure 
compliance with 40 CFR part 60, subpart Ja.
    In general, all NSPS standards require initial notifications, 
performance tests, and periodic reports by the owners/operators of the 
affected facilities. They are also required to maintain records of the 
occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the 
operation of an affected facility, or any period during which the 
monitoring system is inoperative. These notifications, reports, and 
records are essential in determining compliance, and are required of 
all affected facilities subject to NSPS.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Petroleum refineries.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, 
subpart Ja).
    Estimated number of respondents: 129 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 431,000 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $171,000,000 (per year), which includes 
$120,000,000 in annualized capital/startup and/or operation & 
maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in burden from the 
most-recently approved ICR as currently identified in the OMB Inventory 
of Approved Burdens. This increase is due primarily to an increase in 
the number of facilities at existing petroleum refineries subject to 
Subpart Ja. The petroleum refining industry has been decreasing in 
size, but as facilities at refineries are either constructed, modified, 
or reconstructed, they become newly subject to Subpart Ja. This ICR 
adjusts the number of facilities at refineries to reflect those sources 
constructed, modified, or reconstructed over the last three years. 
Since these newly affected facilities are required to install 
monitoring equipment to comply with the regulations, this has resulted 
in increases in capital/startup costs, performance testing costs, and 
operating and maintenance (O&M) costs, as well as for labor burden 
associated with periodic testing.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-10354 Filed 5-12-22; 8:45 am]
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