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Cuyahoga River AOC
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If a refiner ships RBOB to an oxygenate blender at another location, is the refiner responsible for tracking properties following oxygenate addition?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners are required to determine the properties of each batch of RBOB they produce or import prior to the gasoline leaving the refinery. Under § 80.69(a)(4) the refiner is required to determine that the properties of the RBOB…
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If an RBOB refiner elects to engage in a quality assurance program at the blender's blending facility per the terms of a contract with the blender, must the refiner sample and test the RBOB as it is received at the blender's facility? If so, how often must sampling and testing be performed? Should sampling and testing be done at the blender's facility prior to shipment, or after the retail outlet accepts delivery?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The refiner's quality assurance sampling and testing, under § 80.69(a)(7) must be of the RFG produced at an oxygenate blending facility, and not of the RBOB. The rates for testing are specified in § 80.69(a)(7). With respect to…
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If RBOB and oxygenate are blended upstream from the truck in an oxygenate blending facility, which of these parties would be considered an oxygenate blender and have the associated regulatory requirements: A. Terminal owner (if different than operator)
B. Terminal operator (not product owner)
C. Product owner (in tankage)
D. Customer-exchange partner (ownership transfers at rack spiller)
E. Truck owner (common carrier)See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . An oxygenate blender is defined at § 80.2(mm) as "any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, or who owns or controls the blendstock or gasoline used or the gasoline produced at an…
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If a party registers a facility as a refinery, oxygenate blending facility or import facility and then does not produce or import gasoline at that facility during an averaging period, must the party report to EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners, importers, and oxygenate blenders are required to report to EPA only during averaging periods when the party produces or imports some volume of gasoline, even if the party has previously registered with EPA. (9/26/94) This question and…
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If a plant establishes RINs at the beginning of the month and defines it as one month's production estimate (e.g. 8 million gallons), what happens if the plant produces more than 8 million gallons by the end of the month? Does the plant then start issuing a new batch number for the next 8 million gallon RIN? What if this happens in the middle of filling a rail car?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . RINs are not generated at the beginning of a month. Rather, gallon-RINs must have been generated by the time a volume of renewable fuel is transferred from the producer or importer to another party (at which point the…
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If operations necessitate a transfer between two tanks which are both certified reformulated gasoline, does the receiving tank have to be retested and certified?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Assuming that the receiving tank contains certified RFG, such a transfer would be permissible without retesting and recertification. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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If an oxygenate blender must transfer RINs with a volume of renewable fuel, who are they transferring to, if they are the final/end-user?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If any oxygenate blender blends renewable fuel into gasoline or diesel, he is no longer required to transfer RINs and renewable fuel together. Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard…
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If EPA requests that an independent lab supply a portion of a sample to the EPA lab, what volume of gasoline should be sent to EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . When EPA requests a sample from an independent lab, the independent lab should send EPA the entire one quart sample if the lab has not analyzed the sample. If the sample is one the independent lab has analyzed…
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If, due to piping constraints, a refiner must put a purchased or inter-refinery transferred batch of finished gasoline through the refinery blendstock system, but does so without the batch losing integrity, must the refiner include the batch in his compliance calculations?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. As per § 80.65(i) of the regulations, any refiner, importer, or oxygenate blender shall exclude from all compliance calculations, the volume and properties of any RFG that is produced at another refinery or oxygenate blending facility, or…
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If a downstream blender alters an RBOB by addition of other hydrocarbons, how is the baseline selected and how is the fuel regulated and reported?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.78(a)(7) prohibits any person from combining RBOB with any other gasoline, blendstock, or oxygenate except for oxygenate of the type and amount (or within the range of amounts) specified by the refiner or importer at the time…
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Operational Updates
Daily updates related to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment.
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We assume that a terminal operator who stores gasoline for a terminalling customer is responsible for receiving transfer documentation on RFG and conventional gas moved into the terminal for the customer. The terminal then records and stores copies of the transfer documents, produces a new transfer document at the time of the transfer out of the terminal, and passes this document back to the customer after the move out.
The transfer documents for RFG require only minimum/maximum standards for benzene, oxygen, RVP, etc., rather than actual measurement of these specifications. Since the regulations require refiners and importers to report actual measurement of specs, we are assuming that a terminal does not have to report to the EPA the information on the transfer documents. Is this a correct assumption?See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. (9/12/94) This question and answer was originally posted at
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Underground Injection Control in EPA Region 3 (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, and WV)
Region specific UIC contact information is provided.
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Newsletter: East Palestine Train Derailment Response, 5-23-2024
Newsletter May 23 2024 for East Palestine Train Derailment Response
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City Park Soil Sampling Results
March 2023 soil sampling results for City Park in East Palestine, OH, provided by Norfolk Southern Railroad
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Data Validation Reports
Air monitoring data related to the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment.
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Clean Water Resources for Tribes in Region 10
EPA resources for managing water-related environmental issues on tribal lands in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
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Newsletter: East Palestine Train Derailment Response, 11-15-2023
Newsletter May 16 for East Palestien Train Derailment Response