The Unites States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) recently issued an “Information Collection Request” (ICR) request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in an effort to obtain information necessary to identify and categorize refinery process units potentially subject to the Maximum Achievable Control Standards (MACT) standards that the Agency intends to develop pursuant to section 112(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). The ICR request listed approximately 88 refinery sources that were required to perform extensive fuel and/or source sampling.

On March 31, 2011, U.S. EPA sent a Section 114 letter to the BP-Husky Refining Company in Oregon, Ohio stating that the facility was subject to the ICR and that certain information would need to be submitted by the facility to satisfy U.S. EPA’s ICR. More specifically, EPA requested that one of the facility’s Delayed Coking Units be tested for various pollutants, and that the test data obtained during the test program be submitted under the ICR. BP-Husky selected the Delayed Coking Unit 3 (DCU 3) for testing.

• Petroleum Refinery Information Collection Request (ICR) Emissions Test Report (PDF)(1130 pp, 62 MB, October 2011)