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OMB Control No: 2060-0740	ICR Reference No: 202112-2060-002
Status: Historical Inactive	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: EPA/OAR	Agency Tracking No: 2691.01
Title: Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules (Proposed Rule)
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Comment filed on proposed rule	Conclusion Date: 04/01/2022
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 12/21/2021
Terms of Clearance: OMB files this comment in accordance with 5 CFR 1320.11(c). This OMB action is not an approval to conduct or sponsor an information collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This action has no effect on any current approvals. If OMB has assigned this ICR a new OMB Control Number, the OMB Control Number will not appear in the active inventory. For future submissions of this information collection, reference the OMB Control Number provided. In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, OMB is withholding approval at this time. Prior to publication of the final rule, the agency must submit to OMB a summary of all comments related to the information collection contained in the proposed rule and the agency response. The agency should clearly indicate any changes made to the information collection as a result of these comments.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date		36 Months From Approved
Responses	0	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	0	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: This ICR is for a proposed rule makes a variety of amendments to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations, including amendments that will permit biointermediates into the RFS program. A biointermediate is produced from renewable biomass at a biointermediate production facility and is not itself a renewable fuel; the biointermediate will be processed into a renewable fuel at a subsequent renewable fuel production facility. Prior to this proposed rule, the RFS regulation did not include biointermediates, but there are economic and practical reasons that parties may wish to use them. The party who produces a biointermediate at their facility is a biointermediate producer and the party who processes the biointermediate into renewable fuel at their subsequent facility is a renewable fuel producer. The proposed regulations include new information collection burdens that are related to allowing biointermediates into the RFS program. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this proposed regulation would allow the EPA to monitor compliance from biointermediate producers, biointermediate importers, and renewable fuel producers who use biointermediates. Biointermediate producers (who have proposed recordkeeping and reporting requirements) and biointermediate importers (who have proposed recordkeeping requirements) are new regulated parties under the proposed rule. Renewable fuel producers are existing regulated parties who may increase in number (e.g., as new registrants who wish to make renewable fuel from biointermediates) or who may be subject to additional recordkeeping and reporting associated with their biointermediate use. Biointermediate producers and renewable fuel producers have proposed requirements related to having third party engineering reviews of their processes and facilities as part of registration, having a quality assurance plan (QAP) performed by an independent QAP provider, and have requirements for attest engagements performed as a check on their records and compliance report by a third party auditor. Biointermediate importers would need to engage a third party to provide a certification of volumes they import.

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Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Anne Pastorkovich 202 343-9623