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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Question 14, Section VI.C., of the July 1, 1994 Question and Answer Document provides an example of the creation and addition of two different batches to form a composite mixture. All or a portion of this composite is shipped as RFG. How will the refinery account for this shipment under recordkeeping and averaging requirements (assuming the refinery is averaging), based on the scenario outlined in Question 14?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Question 14 relates to in-line blending operations that have petitioned EPA for and received an exemption from the independent sampling and testing requirements of the RFG regulations. In such petitions, refiners often define a "batch" of in-line blended…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Is a PTD required for transferring an unassigned RIN?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. PTDs are not required when transferring unassigned RINs. However, PTDs are required whenever there is a transfer of ownership of a renewable fuel. Where the fuel is being transferred with assigned RINs, then the PTD must include…
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Is Puerto Rico considered a domestic producer? There are no federal RVP standards there--do they use summer fuels in the winter complex model?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Puerto Rico refineries are considered federal gasoline producers. If their fuel remains seasonally the same throughout the year, they meet the criteria of a refiner marketing in an area with no seasonal changes, and they are only required…