[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 205 (Monday, October 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73094-73095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25628]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0679; FRL-9952-96-OEI]


Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and 
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Petroleum Refineries: Catalytic 
Cracking Units, Catalytic Reforming Units, and Sulfur Recovery Units 
(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: Catalytic Cracking Units, Catalytic Reforming Units, and 
Sulfur Recovery Units (40 CFR part 63, subpart UUU) (Renewal)'' (EPA 
ICR No. 1844.08, OMB Control No. 2060-0554), to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This is a 
proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through 
October 31, 2016. Public comments were requested previously via the 
Federal Register (81 FR 26546) on May 3, 2016 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 November 23, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OECA-2012-0679, to: (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our

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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; and (2) OMB via email 
to [email protected]. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 
for EPA.
    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.

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 three types of affected units at 
major source petroleum refineries (fluid catalytic cracking units for 
catalyst regeneration, catalytic reforming units, and sulfur recovery 
units) are required to comply with reporting and record keeping 
requirements for the General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), as 
well as the applicable standards in 40 CFR part 63, subpart UUU. This 
includes submitting initial notifications, performance tests and 
periodic reports and results, and maintaining 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 reports are used by EPA to determine 
compliance with these standards.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Affected units at major source 
petroleum refineries: Fluid catalytic cracking units for catalyst 
regeneration, catalytic reforming units, and sulfur recovery units.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63 
Subparts UUU).
    Estimated number of respondents: 142 (total).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally and semiannually.
    Total estimated burden: 20,200 hours (per year). Burden is defined 
at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
    Total estimated cost: $10,900,000 (per year), which includes 
$8,820,000 in either annualized capital/startup or operation & 
maintenance costs.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase in the total 
estimated burden as currently identified in the OMB Inventory of 
Approved Burdens. The increase in burden from the most- recently 
approved ICR is primarily due to the December 2015 final rule 
amendments. The changes to 40 CFR part 63 Subpart UUU caused by the 
rule amendment are summarized in section 1(b). The specific changes 
that impacted this ICR are (1) the elimination of the SSM exemption, 
(2) the requirement for FCCUs to do periodic PM performance testing and 
a one-time HCN performance test, and (3) revisions to requirements for 
catalytic reforming catalyst regeneration when using active purging. 
This ICR accounts for the burden presented previously in both EPA ICR 
Number 1844.06 (existing rule) and EPA ICR Number 1844.07 (2015 
amendment).
    The elimination of the SSM exemption did not lead to any changes to 
the time or cost burden estimates, or to the number of responses, 
because the previous assumption was that all existing respondents have 
already complied with the initial requirements to prepare and submit 
the SSM plan, thus the time and cost estimate was already zero. In this 
supporting statement, we have added a footnote in Table 1 to explain 
that the SSM exemption has been eliminated and that the burden item can 
be removed out of future ICR supporting statements.
    We have accounted for the additional labor and O&M costs to notify, 
perform, and prepare and submit the reports for the PM and HCN 
performance tests for FCCUs. We have also accounted for the additional 
labor for owners or operators of facilities with FCCUs to update their 
operating, maintenance, and monitoring plan, to account for the new 
requirements.
    We have also accounted for the additional labor and responses 
associated with training personnel and performing an engineering 
assessment for evaluation of the new catalytic reforming unit 
operational requirements.
    Furthermore, we have added a new burden item for performing 
relative accuracy test audits on units using CEMs, based on industry 
comments received from API (further discussed in Section 3(c)). This 
contributed to an increase in the total labor burden, cost and number 
of annual responses.
    In addition, the total number of respondents was revised from 123 
to 142, which contributed to the increase in burden and cost.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-25628 Filed 10-21-16; 8:45 am]
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