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Process EPA Uses to Develop Core Maps for Pesticide Use Limitation Areas
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Watershed Approach Framework
An overview of EPA's vision for watershed approaches.
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Watershed Academy
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Information Management for the Watershed Approach in the Pacific Northwest
A collection of interviews with leaders and key participants in the statewide watershed approach activities in the State of Washington. Additionally, there are reviews of Washington’s statewide watershed activities in a case study fashion.
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EPA/Industry Engine and Vehicle Compliance Workshop Agenda/Presentations
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National DERA Awarded Grants
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Community-Port Collaboration Pilot Projects
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Tips For a Successful Grant Application
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The preamble to the final rule states that "oxygenate added to a refiner's or importer's gasoline or blendstock downstream of the refinery or import facility may be included in the refiner's or importer's compliance calculations only if the refiner or importer is able to demonstrate with certainty that the oxygenate has been added to that party's gasoline." The preamble further states that "as a result of the complexities inherent in tracking gasoline through the fungible distribution system, EPA believes in most cases it will be impracticable for refiners or importers to effectively monitor downstream oxygenate blending with gasoline that is shipped fungibly, and as a result the refiner or importer normally would be precluded from the oxygenate in compliance calculations".
The scenario in question is:
o a refiner ships conventional gasoline produced by the refiner through a common-carrier pipeline;
o batch shipments allow for tracking of the refiner's gasoline within the pipeline;
o shipments are received into the refiner's storage;
o these receipts might be commingled fungibly with conventional gasoline produced by another refiner;
o oxygenate is added at the rack into all of the fungible gasoline.
a) Can the refiner gain oxygen credits for anti-dumping compliance for a pro rata share of the oxygenate added to all gasoline, on the basis of the proportion of gasoline blended that was produced by the refiner?
b) Is the refiner's ability to gain oxygen credits impacted, in any way, by the configuration of the common-carrier pipeline (e.g. breakout tanks, batch versus open-stock system, etc.)?
c) Is the refiner's ability to gain oxygen credits impacted, in anyway by the configuration of the refiner's storage (e.g., dedicated versus community, etc.)?
d) Could the accounting be done on a monthly basis, or would the refiner have to track the ratio of gasoline produced by the refiner versus that produced by another refiner after each batch?See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) Yes, provided there is sufficient documentation to calculate the proportion of gasoline produced by the refiner, and, all other requirements of §80.101(d)(4)(ii) are met. b) The configuration would have to be such that the refiner could, indeed…
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During tank transfers and other operations necessary to accommodate pipeline schedules, barrels of untested, uncertified reformulated gasoline may be mixed with barrels of previously certified product that have been included in the refiner's averaging calculations. If the total volume of mixed product is tested, certified, and booked, then double-accounting of the previously certified barrels will result. Can a procedure for unbooking of the quality and quantity of the previously certified product be used to avoid this double accounting problem?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If, as discussed above, batch volumes are reported based on shipments out of the refinery or import facility (and averaging calculations are based on these volumes), a volume of previously tested reformulated gasoline remaining in a tank, which…
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A tank truck common carrier picks up a load of ULSD at a Shell terminal and delivers it to a Flying J truck stop. The carrier only provides a transportation service, does that carrier have any registration or reporting duties?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, the carrier does not have registration or reporting duties as long as taxes were assessed (in the case of highway fuel) or dye was added (in the case of NRLM) at the terminal. There are recordkeeping 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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Since other ASTM methods are being developed that would allow the use of one analyzer to obtain benzene, aromatics, and olefins, will EPA allow any of these new methods to be used for gasoline certification and/or a refiners’ defense?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . They are not allowed for the determination of properties of reformulated, or conventional gasoline at the refinery, but, as indicated above, they may be used downstream for quality assurance. In the future, EPA may consider amending the regulations…
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Please clarify and resolve the significant digit differences existing between the standard and enforcement tolerance specified, i.e. 8.3 psi RVP with a 0.30 psi enforcement tolerance.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The significant digit differences between the RVP standard and the enforcement tolerance arise from EPA's desire to resolve any questions about rounding of RVP measurements when an enforcement tolerance has been applied. Accordingly, for example, the 0.30 psi…
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When a party lifts gasoline at a terminal, there is usually both a transfer of custody (to the carrier) and a transfer of title (to the person taking title). If all required PTD information is given to the carrier through a bill of lading, is it also necessary to provide a separate PTD to the person taking title? If so, does a single PTD suffice when the person taking title utilizes his own truck as opposed to common carrier trucks?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The transferor must provide PTD information to both the transferee of custody and the transferee of title. As a result, the required PTD information must be provided to both the carrier (the transferee of custody) and the person taking…
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We believe that computer controlled sequential blending of oxygenates at the rack is at least as accurate as computer controlled in line blending. Is sequential blending of oxygenates at the rack considered sufficiently equivalent to computer in line blending to allow the sampling and testing rates under§ 80.69(a)(7)(i)(B) for in line blending?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help For purposes of § 80.69, computer controlled sequential blending is considered to be a form of computer controlled in line blending, and qualifies for the sampling and testing rates applicable to computer controlled oxygenate blending under §§ 80.69(a)(7)(i)(B)(2) and…
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In filing company and facility registrations, if a parent corporation has several subsidiary corporations it desires to register and report to EPA under one company ID number, would it be permissible to register all of the facilities operated by the subsidiaries under only one of the corporations even though for legal and tax purposes they are regarded as separate entities under the umbrella of the one parent corporation? Would it be necessary to obtain a registration number for the parent corporation or could one of the subsidiary corporations take responsibility for compliance for all of the facilities?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help In this situation the parent corporation should register for a company ID # and facilities operated by the subsidiary corporations should be registered as separate facilities but under the parent corporation's company ID #. (8/29/94) This question and answer…
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Concerning the OFID test method for oxygenates:a) The method has a program run of 20 minutes, but over half the eluting peaks on the table in the method come off after 20 minutes. For example, the last oxygenate present on the table elutes off at 38 38 minutes. Can one use other chromatographic conditions such as those conditions set in the ASTM draft method for OFID analysis to achieve shorter retention time and better analytical techniques?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. a) Yes (10/31/94) b) Yes (10/31/94) c) It would generally be inappropriate to purchase prepared Calibration and Independent Standards from the same purveyor; however, if one is purchasing pristine pure compounds for the purported purpose of preparing precise standards…
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After a batch of gasoline is certified as RFG, it is given a batch number. How far "downstream" does the batch number follow the material? If a batch is commingled in a terminal with other compatible material belonging to a variety of terminalling customers, does the batch lose its batch number at that time?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help There are no requirements to identify the batch number in the transfer documentation. Once the batch is commingled with other RFG, the refineries' batch numbers are no longer useful to identify the resulting fungible RFG. (10/17/94) This question and…
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The regulations dictate specific equipment and methodologies for reformulated gasoline analysis. We recommend that the EPA only specify the precision or level of accuracy it requires and let the chemist or laboratory decide which method and type of equipment they will employ for the required analysis.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help Although this may be possible at some time in the future, at the present time, tolerance issues dictate that we specify equipment and method. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping…