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Paying PRIA Application Fees
pria fees
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21-Day Content Screen
Under PRIA, EPA has 21 days after it receives the pesticide application and the fee to conduct an initial screen of the application’s contents for completeness and for the applicant to make necessary corrections. This page provides the checklists we use.
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El Administrador Regional de la EPA, Martucci, concluye su viaje de una semana a Puerto Rico para destacar la inversión en Brownfields y la restauración ambiental
EPA News Release: El Administrador Regional de la EPA, Martucci, concluye su viaje de una semana a Puerto Rico para destacar la inversión en Brownfields y la restauración ambiental
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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 that…
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Data Requirements Checklists for PRIA Fee Categories
Data requirements checklists for PRIA fee categories
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§ 80.101(i)(1) says that conventional gasoline cannot leave a refinery until testing is completed for all parameters used in the compliance calculation. (e)(2) of the same section says that for purposes of meeting (e)(1) a refiner may composite samples and treat that as one batch provided that the composite is not for materials produced or imported over more than one month. May material leave the refinery before analysis is run on the composite? Just a comment, is it really necessary to hold up a batch for at least three hours while an FIA is run for olefins especially since the results of an individual batch are irrelevant for conventional gasoline. Is it EPA's intention to preclude in-line blending of conventional gasoline by this requirement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The regulations have been revised at § 80.101(i)(1) to allow conventional gasoline to leave a refinery or importer facility prior to the completion of sample testing. Note that there are additional constraints related to composite samples at § 80.101(i)(2)…
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§ 80.77 of the proposed rule included conventional gasoline in the requirement for product transfer documents. This section, in the final rule, now excludes conventional gasoline and includes that product in § 80.106. This latter section however, states that it applies only "to product that becomes gasoline upon the addition of oxygenate only." Is it correct to interpret that, except for gasoline that has had an oxygenate added, conventional gasoline transfers do not require PTD's to be in compliance?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. All conventional gasoline, including blendstock that requires the addition of oxygenate only, must meet the product transfer document requirements in § 80.106. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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In a situation where Refinery A purchases finished conventional gasoline from Refinery B, Refinery B should include the gasoline in its compliance calculations and Refinery A should exclude it. If Refinery A blends the gasoline with its own blendstocks and, therefore, must mathematically adjust the volume and properties of the average conventional gasoline production to account for the gasoline from Refinery B, what properties should be used in this adjustment, the analysis performed by Refinery B prior to shipment, or the analysis performed by Refinery A as the product was received?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The analysis of the product that is performed by Refinery A should be used. (4/18/95) This question and answer was posted at
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EPA Regional Administrator Martucci Wraps Weeklong Trip to Puerto Rico Highlighting Brownfields Investment and Environmental Restoration
EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator Martucci Wraps Weeklong Trip to Puerto Rico Highlighting Brownfields Investment and Environmental Restoration
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Should the summer toxics model be used for RFG during the 1995 California VOC transition seasons (i.e., before May 1 and after September 15) when California regulations limit RVP to 7.8 psi?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. RFG that is designated as VOC controlled by the refiner must use the summer model and must comply with the RVP standard for the appropriate VOC control region. RFG that is designated as non-VOC controlled by the refiner must…
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Should separate samples be collected for RVP analysis?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. One sample may be used for all of the RFG parameters that need to be determined, including RVP. However, because sample handling in the laboratory may affect various reformulated gasoline properties, such as RVP, analyses must be performed in…
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On a shipment from our refinery to a pipeline we are often providing transfer of title to another oil company while simultaneously transferring custody to the pipeline. Pipeline companies are telling us that as long as the shippers code (as part of the batch designation) identifies that exchange partner receiving title, we do not have to generate a separate transfer document to that exchange partner. Is this O.K?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. As the transferor, you would be responsible for providing PTD information to any party that directly receives custody or title of a delivery of RFG, RBOB or conventional gasoline from you. In the above scenario you would have…
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Should batch reports for blended gasoline be submitted by the facility at which gasoline is blended or the facility from which the blended gasoline is shipped?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The facility where blending occurs. (7/1/94) This question and answer was originally posted at
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Section 80.77(d) requires the PTD to provide "the location of the gasoline at the time of the transfer." In a situation where the transferor is a truck carrier, what does the term "location" refer to?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. For the PTD transferred from the terminal to the truck carrier, "the location of the gasoline at the time of the transfer" would be the terminal. For the PTD transferred from the truck carrier to the next party in…
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Putnam and Orange Counties in New York were not included in the list of RFG covered areas in § 80.70. Was there exclusion an oversight?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. A correction has been made to include Putnam and Orange Counties in the New York City reformulated gasoline covered area. These counties are part of the New York City CMSA and are thus appropriately part of the New…
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Newsletter: East Palestine Train Derailment Response, 5-30-2023
Newsletter May 16 for East Palestien Train Derailment Response
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Public terminals that "refine" and "blend" RFG, RBOB or conventional gasoline as defined in the RFG rules at 40 CFR Part 80, and obtain agreements from their customers to comply with the refiner/blender requirements of the rule, will not separately need to register with EPA. It is my understanding that terminals in such situations must not register. Is my understanding correct?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. In a situation in which more than one party fits the definition of a refiner or oxygenate blender under the regulations, each such party is subject to the requirements under the regulations, including registration requirements. Where, for a…
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Newsletter: East Palestine Train Derailment Response, 4-4-2023
April 4 newsletter in html for East Palestine Train Derailment Response
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Newsletter: East Palestine Train Derailment Response, 6-6-2023
Newsletter May 16 for East Palestien Train Derailment Response
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For purposes of RFG compliance on average, can refiners treat closely integrated facilities operating in a single covered area as a single facility, or must compliance be achieved separately for each facility? Suppose the refinery operation consists of mixing blending components to produce finished RFG using tankage in multiple terminals in close proximity, the blender is meeting all refiner requirements. and the blender is the responsible party for record keeping, reporting, and compliance. Can the refiner/blender aggregate the operations at all the facilities used for compliance on average purposes or must he meet the standards separately at each terminal?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Under § 80.67(b)(1), refiners must meet all applicable averaged standards separately for each of the refiner's refineries (i.e., for each facility at which gasoline is produced.) This would include terminals at which RFG is produced through a blending process…