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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 11, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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Frequency of Response: The number of responses per year for this final rule will vary by participating facilities. The Coast Guard anticipates that each new participant will submit an Operations Manual and Emergency Manual once when the new facility becomes operational. The operator will submit updates, in the form of amendments, to the manual whenever there is a significant change.
The final rule does not increase the number of annual responses. The number of responses since the last collection of information, however, has increased, because the population size since that time has increased. The most recently approved collection of information estimates 3,356 annual responses for all LNG and LHG
facilities.127 Under the final rule, the annual responses are estimated to be 3,502.128 This difference is due to a change in the populations as opposed to other impacts of the rulemaking.
Burden of Response: The burden of response will decrease due to the fact that facility operators will no longer need to print the manuals that will be submitted, mail them to the COTP, and place them at the marine transfer areas of the facilities for those manuals and amendments that will be kept at marine transfer areas in electronic format.
In the latest available collection of information, using the new LNG and LHG population of 121 instead of 108, along with the per-response burden hours in that collection, the total burden hours for both LNG and LHG facilities, per year, is 6,768. The hours per response for the development of an Operations Manual or Emergency Manual is 150 hours, and the hours per response for Operations Manual or Emergency Manual amendments is 2
hours.129 The final rule will reduce the burden hours for Operations Manuals and Emergency Manuals and amendments for facility operators submitting their documents to the COTP
127 Annual responses are defined as not only the number of Operations Manuals and Emergency Manuals and amendments but also other documentation such as letters of intent and declarations of intent. The full list of documents that constitute responses can be found in the collection if information 16250049.
128 Ibid.
129 The relevant collection of information is 16250049. The 150- and 2-hour figures can be seen in Regulations.Gov specifically under https
www.regulations.gov/docket?D=USCG-2019-0353, in the supporting document 16250049_SS_r0_
2019_calcs-sheet_App-A-to-C, pages 23. In that document, it can be seen that the total hours per response, for both LNG and LHG facilities, is 150
hours for development of Operations Manuals and Emergency Manual Amendments and 2 hours for Operations Manual and Emergency Manual amendments.

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and storing their documentation at their marine transfer areas in electronic format. This total time saved time is estimated at 33 hours per year. Thus, the Coast Guard estimates that 33
burden hours will be eliminated per year.
Estimate of Total Annual Burden: The final rule will decrease the total burden by 33 hours, from 6,768 hours to 6,735.
Title: Facilities Transferring Oil or Hazardous Materials in Bulk.
OMB Control Number: 16250093.
Summary of the Collection of Information: The Operations Manual regulations in 33 CFR 154.300 through 154.325 establish procedures for facilities that transfer oil or hazardous materials, in bulk, to or from a vessel with a capacity of 39.75 cubic meters 250 barrels or more. The facility operator must submit Operations Manuals and associated amendments to the Coast Guard.
Need for Information: The Coast Guard uses the information in an Operations Manual to ensure that facility personnel follow proper and safe procedures for transferring oil or hazardous materials and to ensure facility personnel follow proper and safe procedures for dealing with any spills that occur during a transfer. Operations Manuals are updated periodically by amendments to ensure they are kept current to reflect changes in procedures, equipment, personnel, and telephone number listings.
Use of Information: The Coast Guard uses this information to monitor compliance with the rule.
Description of the Respondents:
Facilities transferring oil or hazardous materials in bulk.
Number of Respondents: This final rule will not have any impact on the number of respondents. Based on the Coast Guards MISLE database, there are currently 2,497 oil and hazardous material facilities operating in the United States and its territories. The electronic submission opportunity in this final rule will reduce the number of hours spent printing the manuals and amendments, submitting them to the COTP, updating numerous copies of each manual following amendment, and ensuring the most recent printed version of the manual, with all amendments, is available to the PIC.
Frequency of Response: The number of responses per year for this final rule will vary by participating facilities. The Coast Guard anticipates that each new participant will submit an Operations Manual once when the new facility becomes operational. The operator will submit updates to the manual whenever
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there is a significant change. Based on historical information, the Coast Guard expects facilities to submit 261 new Operations Manuals and 442
amendments per year. The number of Letters of Intent submissions is 261, equivalent to the number of Operations Manuals. The current collection of information assumes that the number of Letters of Intent equals the number of Operations Manual submissions. These figures are derived from the MISLE
database. Hence, the total number of responses is 964 per year.
Burden of Response: The final rule gives regulated facilities the option of submitting Operations Manuals and associated amendments to the COTP, at their discretion, in either print or electronic format. For those facilities submitting documentation in electronic format, the burden of response will decrease due to eliminating the need to print and mail these manuals. For facility operators placing electronic copies of their documents at their marine transfer areas, costs associated with printing copies and labor time related to placing them there will be saved.
According to the latest collection of information, 115 hours are required to prepare an Operations Manual; 16 hours are required to prepare an amendment;
and 2 hours are required to submit a Letter of Intent.130 Assuming that there are 261 Operations Manual submissions, 442 amendment submissions, and 261
Letters of Intent, the total of annual burden hours in that collection of information is 37,609.131
This final rule will reduce the burden hours for facilities because it will permit them to submit their documentation in electronic format and permit them to store their documents at their marine transfer areas in electronic format. The estimated burden hours reduced as a result is 249 hours per year.
Estimate of Total Annual Burden: The final rule will decrease the total burden hours by 249, from 37,609 hours to 37,360 per year.
As required by 44 U.S.C. 3507d, we submitted a copy of the proposed rule to OMB for its review of the reduction in the total annual burden for OMB
Control Number 16250049. The Coast Guard did not receive any comments on the proposed rule regarding either collection of information request;
accordingly no changes have been made. We will submit a copy of the published final rule to OMB for their 130 OMB

Control Number: 16250093.
existing collection of information states that the Letters of Intent submissions equal the number of Operation Manual submissions.
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