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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 11, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
instances 22 of Emergency Manuals, Operations Manuals, and amendments are filed by LNG and LHG facilities per year, representing an average of 18
instances for manuals and 42 for amendments.23 These numbers differ from the numbers shown in appendices A and B in the Collection of Information Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget; OMB Control Number: 16250049.24 That information collected, titled Waterfront Facilities Handling Liquefied Natural Gas LNG
and Liquefied Hazardous Gas LHG, shows 8 instances of manuals and 14
instances of amendments, for a total of 22 instances of manuals and amendments filed.25 This difference 60
versus 22 is attributable to the fact that the MISLE data for the collection of information and this RA were pulled on different dates. We performed the MISLE pull for this RA on November 18, 2019, while the MISLE pull for the collection of information occurred prior to its date of publication, August 30,
2019. As a result, the total LNG and LHG facility populations, as well as the individual manual and amendment numbers, were different. The collection of information found a combined LNG
and LHG population of 108, while we found 121. Hence, this RA projects larger numbers of manuals and amendments than did the collection of information.26
Coast Guard SMEs estimated that 90
percent of LNG/LHG facilities will submit their documentation to the Coast Guard electronically. Thus, of the annual impacted population of 60 LNG/
LHG facilities, we estimate the affected annual population of LNG/LHG
facilities to be 54 per year submitting their documentation in electronic form, with the remaining 10 percent, or 6
facilities, submitting their documentation in print form.
The MISLE pull for this RA found the average number of instances of Operations Manuals and amendments filed by MTR facilities for the same period 20092019 to be 703.27 MTR

facilities are only required to file Operations Manuals and amendments, not Emergency Manuals and amendments. Of those 703 instances of manuals and amendments, there were an average of 261 instances of manuals and 442 amendments annually.
Assuming each submission is for a unique facility for an annually impacted MTR population of 703, and since Coast Guard SMEs in CGFAC
estimated that 75 percent of MTR
facilities will submit their documentation in an electronic format, we estimated a regulated population of 527 MTR facilities electing electronic submission annually, with 25 percent of MTR facilities, or another 176
facilities,28 projected to submit their documentation in print form annually.
The number of annually impacted facilities, by LNG/LHG and MTR
facility, as well as the number of different types of manuals and amendments by facility type, is summarized in table 4.

TABLE 4AFFECTED POPULATION AND NUMBER OF INSTANCES OF MANUALS AND AMENDMENTS FILED ANNUALLY

Facility type
Total instances of operations and emergency manuals filed
Total instances of operations and emergency manual amendments filed
18
261

42
442

LNG/LHG
MTR

Total instances of documents filed
Total instances of operations and emergency manuals filed electronically
Total instances of operations and emergency manual amendments filed electronically
16
196

38
332

60
703

Total instances of manuals filed electronically
Total instances of operations and emergency manuals filed in print form
Total instances of operations and emergency manual amendments filed in print form
2 65

4
111

54
527

Total instances of manual amendments filed in print form 6
176

Note: all total numbers rounded to the closest whole number
Cost Savings Components Tables 5 and 6 summarize the final rules cost savings for the private sector and for the Coast Guard. Table 5

provides the private sectors cost savings for the pertinent maritime facilities of the affected population LNG/LHG and MTR facilities as well
as by the four different cost savings categories estimated. Table 6
summarizes the Coast Guards cost savings.

TABLE 5ANNUAL COST SAVINGS OF FINAL RULE TO PRIVATE SECTOR BY POPULATION AND COST SAVINGS ELEMENT
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LNG/LHG Facilities

Savings from not having to produce printed manuals and amendments to mail to the COTP.2

22 An instance is when a document is filed. It does not necessarily correspond to the number of copies of manuals filed. The reason we use instances instead of the number of copies filed is that instances serve as a better basis to estimate the number of copies of documents required by different scenarios later in this RA. For example, under current regulations two copies of each type of document must be filed in printed format, but under this final rule facility operators will have the option to submit only one copy if they submit in printed format, or zero if they submit in electronic format.
23 This number is rounded to the nearest whole number, as are all population numbers provided below.

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24 This Collection of Information was published in the Federal Register at 84 FR 45783 on August 30, 2019.
25 In the collection of information, there were instances of 6 manuals and 12 amendments filed for LHG facilities and instances of 2 manuals and 2
amendments for LNG facilities, for a total of 8
instances of manuals and 14 instances of amendments and a total of 22 documents overall.
26 The reason for the difference between the number of facilities in Collection of Information Under Review by Office of Management and Budget; OMB Control Number: 16250049 and that calculated in this rulemaking 22 versus 60 rests with the differing methods the numbers of manuals and amendments were estimated between the collection of information and the rulemaking. In the collection of information, the number of
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amendments was estimated to grow at an annual rate of 3 percent of the rate of facilities and the number of amendments was estimated to grow at 6 percent the rate of facilities. In the rulemaking, the number of amendments and manuals was based on the actual number that was in the MISLE
database. Once the final rule is published, the Coast Guard plans to synchronize the method used to estimate the number of amendments and manuals for the collection of information with that used in the rulemaking i.e., the 3 percent and 6 percent growth rates will be replaced with data from the MISLE database.
27 We conducted this search of MISLE on November 18, 2019.
28 This number is rounded up to the closest whole number.

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