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A refinery can produce non-ester renewable diesel by processing renewable feedstock through a distillate hydrotreater. In this situation, the refinery must assign RINs based on the feed volume. I assume the refinery can follow the rules for defining a bat
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. However, it is the total number of gallon-RINs, not the total volume, that must be less than 100 million. See regulation Section 80.1126(c). Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel…
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At our terminal, we transfer ownership of ethanol to our customers simultaneously with blending that ethanol into gasoline. Who owns the RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A RIN assigned to a volume of renewable fuel is separated by the party that owns that volume of renewable fuel at the time of blending. If a downstream customer is the owner of the volume of renewable…
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Are there any temperature requirements for the shipping of samples?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November 10, 1997 (PDF) (333 pp, 18.17 MB, EPA420-R-03-009, July 2003, About PDF )
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Can conventional gasoline be used for off-road applications in an RFG area?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. Only reformulated gasoline may be sold or supplied in a covered area.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November 10, 1997 (PDF)…
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A refiner produces a batch of gasoline at its refinery. It collects a sample of the gasoline and conducts certification testing. The sulfur content test result is less than the 80 ppm refinery level standard. The gasoline is then moved to another tank wit
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The downstream standard applies to samples of gasoline subsequent to movement of the gasoline from the tank in which certification sampling is conducted, even when these subsequent samples are collected within the refinery or import facility where the…
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A tank of ethanol has become contaminated and must be disposed of. How would we treat this situation for RIN reporting under the RFS program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The RFS regulation envisions various scenarios under which RINs might be retired. The reporting section in the regulation names a few examples: retirement in satisfaction of enforcement action, spill, and use in a boiler or heater. We recognize…
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How should refiners use blending records for oxygenate parameters when distillation is nonlinear?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In this situation, it may be necessary to do further testing with the same oxygenates and similar hydrocarbon blendstocks to determine the blending effects.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping…
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Are sampling requirements based on 50% of volume or on one-half of the number of batches?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Sampling requirements are based on the number of batches, not the volume, over a minimum of six months.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994…
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Como apresentar uma queixa por discriminação
Como apresentar uma queixa por discriminação
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تقديم المساعدة للأفراد ذوي الإتقان المحدود للغة الإنجليزية
تحسين الوصول إلى الخدمات للأفراد بإجادة محدودة للغة الإنجليزية
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Оказание помощи лицам с ограниченным знанием английского языка
Russian translation of web page on Assisting LEP individuals
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The GreenChill Partnership
GreenChill is an EPA partnership with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change.
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Progress Report 2011: GreenChill: A Partnership at Work
Contains information about the progress of the GreenChill partnership in 2011.
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Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated with PFOA and PFOS
This guidance provides interim recommendations for addressing groundwater contaminated with PFOA and/or PFOS at sites being evaluated and addressed under federal cleanup programs, including Superfund/CERCLA and corrective actions under RCRA.
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Does a company that produces RFG have to register all oxygenate blending facilities or just those that produce RFG? All import locations or just those that import RFG?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Registration is required only for oxygenate blending facilities at which RFG is produced, and not for oxygenate blending facilities where oxygenate is blended with conventional gasoline only. If an oxygenate blender decides to blend RBOB with oxygenates to…
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What happens if a marketer sells a batch with one RIN to two different refiners? Can he divide the RIN? If so, how?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The basic unit of compliance in the RFS program is the gallon-RIN. However, for shorthand we allow multiple sequential gallon-RINs to be represented by a single batch-RIN through the appropriate designation of the start (SSSSSSSS) and end (EEEEEEEE)…
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Ethanol is imported on an undenatured basis. Do we assign the RINs to the denatured volume or the undenatured volume?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Denatured. See regulation Sections 80.1101(d)(3) and 80.1115(b)(2). Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (PDF) (55 pp, 221 K, EPA420-F-07-041a, August 2007, About PDF )
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Do batch numbers have to be sequential? Do they have to correspond to the month that they represent (i.e. 1 - 12)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Batch numbers need not be sequential and need not represent a full month. They need only be unique within a calendar year. Each producer or importer of renewable fuel can define a batch in whatever way it chooses…
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Which non-obligated parties are allowed to participate in the credit trading program? Producers (with extra value RINs), oxygenate blenders, marketers?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Anyone can participate in the RIN trading program, subject to the requirement that the party first register with the EPA and then adhere to other regulatory requirements, including submitting required reports (such as quarterly reports on RINs held)…
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We are a producer of ethanol. If we have 10,000 gallons in inventory on September 1, 2007 and 25,000 came from our production facility A, 25,000 came from our production facility B, and the other 50,000 we own but received from various other producers, ho
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As an ethanol producer or importer, you may assign RINs to the product you own on September 1, 2007. As far as how to handle the facility identification number fields in the RIN, you will want to consistently…