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Section 80.78(a) requires segregation of several categories of gasoline and precludes the mixing of any amount of the gasolines that must be segregated. EPA recognized the difficulty in changing the service of a storage tank as a result of tank heels, and
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A party who follows the procedures for dealing with the change of service for a gasoline storage tank, or for dealing with pipeline interface mixtures, that are described in the Question and Answer Document will be considered by…
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Where a reformulated gasoline is injected into a "closed" proprietary pipeline, shipped to a "closed" proprietary marketing terminal and loaded into a proprietary truck and no other refiner can physically deliver or receive at these points, is it required
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations require PTD's on each occasion when any person transfers custody or title of RFG, RBOB or conventional gasoline and conventional gasoline blendstock requiring the addition of oxygenate only. When the custody of gasoline changes within a…
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What is the definition of sulfur in gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The sulfur portion of all sulfur forms and compounds.(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…
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When the independent lab samples a batch of RFG, they are to "determine" blending times, batch volumes, tank numbers, and grade. Which of these determinations must be independently made by the independent lab, and which can be obtained from the refiner or
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The independent lab may rely on the refiner's or importer's representations with regard to the date and time the batch became finished RFG, and the grade of gasoline, if this reliance is warranted in the exercise of the…
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What information in the baseline submittal will be considered Confidential Business Information?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Based on section 80.93(b)(6), the information listed in section 80.93(b)(5) cannot be considered CBI. Any other information in the baseline submission which the refiner wishes to be considered CBI must be clearly identified. Any such claims will be…
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Where is it required in the regulations that the PTD's for RFG must designate the finished gasoline as meeting the oxygenate standard on the per-gallon or average? Would it not be sufficient to infer the average standards from the listings of min/max's on
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The PTD requirements for RFG do not require that gasoline be designated as meeting the standards, including the oxygenate standard, per-gallon or average. Section 80.77 does require that PTD information include the minimum and maximum downstream standards with…
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What options are available to refiners (and other regulated parties) in California for downgrading federal RFG in 1995, and CARB Phase II RFG in 1996 and beyond, to conventional gasoline for use outside the State of California. Such downgrading may be nec
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Normally, RFG may be redesignated as conventional gasoline without any restrictions, so long as the product transfer documents reflect this redesignation, and the redesignated gasoline is in fact used as conventional gasoline. See the Answers to Questions IX-B-13…
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What basis is to be used for reconciliations, volume (gallons or barrels) or weight? What does EPA consider to be perpetual inventory? (Is a plant balancing considered a perpetual inventory?)
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.128 (Agreed upon procedures for refiners and importers) provides for comparison of records on the basis of volume except in section 80.128(b) which provides for analysis of gasoline inventory reconciliation records. While EPA anticipates that the standard…
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Where in the final anti-dumping regulations are oxygenate blenders excluded from the antidumping requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Although oxygenate blenders have been considered refiners under previous EPA programs, they have been defined separately from refiners under § 80.2 for the purpose of specific requirements under the RFG program. The regulations specify that only refiners and…
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What options are available to pipelines for dealing with interface material, i.e., mixtures of two different types of product that result when the different products are adjacent during pipeline movement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Interface Mixtures Involving RFG or RBOB First, the pipeline must minimize the instances of prohibited mixing, through the sequencing together of product types that may be legally mixed, to the greatest extent possible. Second, in those instances where…
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Previous Supplemental Environmental Projects Guidance
2015 Enforcement case resolutions such as expedited settlement agreements, administrative settlement agreements, administrative penalty orders, consent agreements and final orders, and consent decrees are listed by respondent name below.
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2021 Clean Air Act Vehicle and Engine Enforcement Case Resolutions
2021 Enforcement case resolutions such as expedited settlement agreements, administrative settlement agreements, administrative penalty orders, consent agreements and final orders, and consent decrees are listed by respondent name below.
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Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Chevron Products Company - Division of Chevron USA Incorporated in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
The Chevron Refinery is an active, 339-acre facility located in a heavily industrial area on the east side the city of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The facility was built by the Barber Asphalt Company in 1920, who operated it as an asphalt
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Buffalo River Area of Concern Remedial Action Plan Activities - October, 2014
Documents describing completed remedial actions and restoration goals for New York Areas of Concern and the Buffalo River AOC.
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PAG Public Communication Resources
EPA’s companion documents to the 2017 PAG Manual can be used to assist officials responsible for communicating safety information to the public after a radiological emergency.
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2000 SO2 Allowance Auction
Learn the results of EPA's 2000 Acid Rain Program sulfur dioxide (SO2) allowance auction results.
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Lac Vieux Desert Wastewater Facility NPDES Permit
public notice documents for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit in minnesota
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Bois Forte Lake Vermilion Wastewater Treatment Ponds NPDES Permit
NPDES Permits, Nett Lake, Minnesota, Public notice for draft permit number MN-0061310-5 (St. Louis County, MN).
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Big Sand Lake/West Hertel WWTP NPDES Permit WI-0062847-4
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin is authorized by the USEPA, Region 5, to discharge from a treatment facility designated as the Big Sand Lake/West Hertel WWTP, located on Trust property of the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
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Menominee Tribal Enterprises NPDES Permit WI-0046868-5
Menominee Tribal Enterprises, a business of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, is authorized by the
US EPA, Region 5, to discharge wastewater from a timber processing facility located on the Menominee Indian Reservation.