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How Can I Incorporate Local Data Into My MOVES-Nonroad Run?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models. We recommend not modifying the internal tables of the MOVES-Nonroad model to incorporate local data, as this can lead to unintended consequences. Instead, you can apply local activity and population data by: Executing a nonroad run in Inventory mode for the…
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If I certify a nonroad flexible-fuel engine under 40 CFR Part 1054, are owners and operators prohibited from using gasoline-ethanol blended fuels containing greater than 10 volume percent ethanol under 80.1504(a)(1) in my nonroad flexible-fuel engine?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No, owners and operators of nonroad engines, vehicles, and equipment where the nonroad engine is certified under 40 CFR Part 1054 as a flexible-fuel engine are not prohibited from using gasoline-ethanol blended fuels containing greater than 10 volume percent…
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Can a refiner or importer use gasoline sulfur test methods other than ASTM D 2622-98, especially for sulfur levels of 10 ppm and less?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The rule designates ASTM D 2622 as the benchmark test method by which compliance will be determined, and that is the test that the Agency typically will use in establishing compliance. However, the rule does permit alternative test methods…
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Must a refinery that produces both California gasoline and federal RFG designate each batch produced as either federal RFG or California gasoline, and maintain segregation of both products, even though the gasoline meets the requirements of both programs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Section 80.375(c) requires that each batch of California gasoline be designated as such by the refiner or importer, and that California gasoline be segregated from gasoline that is not California gasoline at all points in the distribution system. The…
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Truckers may obtain both premium gasoline and regular gasoline from a terminal in order to supply a retail outlet with midgrade gasoline. In such cases, if a truck obtains a load of gasoline from a terminal that consists of a mixture of gasoline from a te
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The regulation specifically exempts gasoline in trucks from the testing requirement for S-RGAS, and instead allows truckers to rely on the test result of the terminal supplying the truck carrier. See § 80.210(d)(4). Where a tanker truck receives a…
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6. Is commingling of different types of ethanol permitted? If so, what systems must be employed?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. With one exception, the RFS program places no restrictions on the mixing of ethanol produced in different facilities, by different feedstocks, or through different processes. Also, RINs assigned to ethanol are fungible, in that a specific assigned RIN is…
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A terminal provides gasoline to a truck at the terminal?s truck rack at the same time the terminal is receiving gasoline into the same storage tank that is supplying the truck. The gasoline already in the terminal?s storage tank is properly classified as
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Under the regulation, the terminal must obtain a representative sample of gasoline from the storage tank and test it for sulfur content after receipt of the new load of gasoline into the terminal tank in order to continue to…
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Assume that the gasoline contained in the storage tank is not classified as SRGAS when the truck begins to receive product, but gasoline classified by the pipeline as SRGAS is being loaded into the terminal storage tank from a pipeline as the truck is bei
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Under the regulation the terminal must sample and test its gasoline subsequent to the receipt of the transferred gasoline into the terminal storage tank in order to qualify the gasoline in the tank as S-RGAS. However, it is a…
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What PTD language is required for gasoline that includes both GPA gasoline and S-RGAS, where the S-RGAS has a higher downstream sulfur standard than the GPA gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Section 80.219(c)(ii) provides that all parties in the distribution system are prohibited from commingling GPA gasoline with gasoline not designated as GPA gasoline unless the mixture is classified as GPA gasoline. As a result, for a mixture of S-RGAS…
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If a facility is grandfathered, is it also exempt from the requirement that feedstocks must be renewable biomass?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Even if a facility is exempt from the 20% GHG reduction requirement, in order to generate RINs, the facility is still required to use feedstocks that meet the definition of renewable biomass. The definition of renewable fuel in 80.1401…
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How does PBATMA (40 CFR 80.47) apply to refiners and importers of “California gasoline” subject to the enforcement exemptions of 40 CFR 80.81?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Refiners and importers of California gasoline that is subject to the enforcement exemptions of 40 CFR §80.81 may continue to use sampling and testing methodologies as described in paragraph §80.81(h).
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The sulfur rule says that a small refiner must produce gasoline by processing crude oil through a refinery processing unit. Does our refinery meet that requirement if we produce gasoline by processing crude oil through a processing unit, but we sometimes
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Under § 80.225(a), a small refiner is a refiner who processes crude oil through refinery processing units, employed an average of no more than 1,500 people during 1998, and had an average crude capacity less than or equal to…
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Can butane blenders generate allotments and credits?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Section 80.340(b)(1) provides that butane blenders may comply with the gasoline sulfur rule sampling and testing requirements using test results from the butane supplier provided that certain requirements are met. One requirement is that the sulfur content of the…
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What test requirements exist for determination of the sulfur content of denatured ethanol? What test method must be used to determine the sulfur content of ethanol? In the absence of an approved test method, what guidance can the Agency provide fuel ethan
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The regulations do not require an ethanol blender, producer or supplier to test ethanol for sulfur content. The regulations do prohibit blending denatured ethanol into gasoline if the sulfur content of the denatured ethanol exceeds 30 ppm. See §…
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Can product codes satisfy the product transfer documentation requirements set forth at 40 C.F.R. 80.1503(a)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA believes that parties normally are able to meet the product transfer requirements by including the required information in the documents that the parties currently use to memorialize the transfer of title or custody of the gasoline. Product codes…
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In the NPRM, the sulfur standards were expressed without decimal places, but the final rule provides that the standards are expressed with two decimal places (§§ 80.195, 205). Why did EPA include this change?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA included the decimal places to ensure that the sulfur standards are not exceeded by rounding down actual average sulfur levels. We do not believe reporting the average sulfur level to two decimals creates any additional burden as the…
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There is significant difference between "refiner" and "refinery". Portions of the regulations use "refiner" where "refinery" is the appropriate term. While it may be clear from the context that "refinery" is meant, text should be changed to avoid any poss
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. We agree with the comment and intend to make these clarifications in a future rulemaking. These clarifications would not affect the regulatory requirements in the current final rule.
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Does the gasoline sulfur rule require refiners and downstream parties to account for the sulfur content of a registered fuel additive, such as a corrosion inhibitor used to help prevent sulfur-related fuel gauge sending unit failures?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Currently, there is no requirement under the gasoline sulfur rule for refiners or downstream parties to demonstrate compliance with the gasoline sulfur standards for registered fuel additives. Parties who add fuel additives, however, are responsible for ensuring that the…