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If a purchased lot of certified RFG is combined with another lot of fungible certified RFG in a terminal, and a portion of the mixture is then sold to a third party, what form would the product transfer documentation take? Would it be necessary to convey documentation on a pro rata basis to all purchasers of the blended material?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no specific form or required format for the produce transfer document (PTD) information. It should be included on the documents used to memorialize the transfer of the fuel and should reflect the amount and type of…
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FAST-41 Projects With EPA Permits
EPA and FAST-41- Project table
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EPA Settlement with BASF Ensures they Comply with Chemical Reporting Violations in New Jersey
EPA News Release: EPA Settlement with BASF Ensures they Comply with Chemical Reporting Violations in New Jersey
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If ethanol is splash blended into a truck, does the truck operator become an oxygenate blender? If so, what are the registration, reporting, recordkeeping, and oversight requirements of the trucker? Will two bills of lading (one from a gasoline terminal and one from an ethanol terminal) stapled together be valid documentation of final product?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations at § 80.2(ll) and (mm) specifically provide that any person who owns, leases, operates, controls or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, the definition of which includes a truck, is an oxygenate blender under the regulations. In…
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Risk Assessment
How the EPA conducts risk assessment to protect human health and the environment. Several assessments are included with the guidelines, models, databases, state-based RSL Tables, local contacts and framework documents used to perform these assessments.
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WaterSense Accomplishment Reports
WaterSense Accomplishments reports
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In a case where an independent lab collects more than one sample from a batch (e.g., top/middle/lower samples), how many samples must be retained by the independent lab?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For EPA's purposes, an independent lab must collect a single representative sample for each batch of RFG, and it is this single sample that should be analyzed and retained for transfer to EPA if necessary. If more than…
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Are independent labs required to report to EPA, the refiner, or both? What are the reporting requirements for independent labs in the case an independent lab's analysis shows gasoline does not meet relevant RFG standards?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.65(f)(3)(iii) refiners and importers are required to have their independent labs report directly to EPA on a quarterly basis. There is no requirement that independent labs must report to the refiner or importer for whom they…
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Are any categories of gasoline users in the RFG covered areas exempt from the requirement to use RFG instead of conventional gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 211(k)(5) of the Clean Air Act describes the scope of the requirement to use RFG in the RFG covered areas: (5) PROHIBITION. -- Effective beginning January 1, 1995, each of the following shall be a violation of…
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Documents, Reports and Photographs for Parker Lord Corporation (also known as: Lord Kinematics) in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania
RCRA Corrective Action Parker Lord Corp MPD (Lord Kinematics), Cambridge Springs PA, Documents and Reports
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The WaterSense Current: Spring 2018
By taking a little time to perform maintenance on your sprinkler system, your landscape and your wallet will thank you. Learn more!
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The applicability of standards in §80.101(c) is not clear. Do these provisions apply by refiner, regardless of how its refineries are aggregated? These provisions should apply to either individual refineries or aggregated refineries, depending on the refiner's choice of grouping refineries according to §80.101(h).
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The standards specified at §80.101(c) apply to individual refineries or refinery groupings as selected by the refiner under § 80.101(h). (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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At what point in the import process must shipments of imported gasoline be sampled in order to meet the RFG and anti-dumping requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.65(e)(1) requires importers to determine the properties applicable to the RFG standards for each batch of imported gasoline designated as RFG prior to the gasoline leaving the import facility, by analyzing a representative sample from the batch…
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What is the process to retire a RIN? Is this a reporting function that is done with the EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . RINs are retired for reasons specified in the regulations and must be reported to EPA. A retired RIN may not be used for compliance purposes or traded to another party. A retired RIN is reported to EPA in…
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What procedures must be followed if product is downgraded, e.g., RFG is downgraded to conventional? What procedures apply at the refinery as opposed to downstream?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no prohibition on the sale of RFG in conventional areas. Once a batch of gasoline is certified as RFG and released from the refinery its designation cannot be changed by the refiner. However, the refinery can…
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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 necessary, for example, at a terminal located in California downstream of the refinery but close to the California border with Arizona or Nevada, and that receives product via a pipeline that also goes into Arizona or Nevada. There undoubtedly will be situations where "California" gasoline is shipped via the pipeline to this terminal, but the terminal tanks are too full to receive all of this "California" gasoline. In such a case it will be necessary to allow the "California" gasoline to continue moving down the pipeline to a terminal outside California. In most cases, this gasoline would have been in fungible storage prior to shipment on the pipeline and the sample obtained at the refinery will not represent the gasoline diverted out of California.
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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EPA announces use of Sepulveda Basin as California National Guard personnel, equipment staging area
Emergency Response
EPA News Release: EPA announces use of Sepulveda Basin as California National Guard personnel, equipment staging area
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EPA announces $3M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Idaho
EPA News Release: EPA announces $3M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Idaho
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EPA announces $4M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Alaska
EPA News Release: EPA announces $4M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Alaska
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EPA announces over $6M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Oregon
EPA News Release: EPA announces over $6M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Oregon