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Paying PRIA Application Fees
pria fees
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21-Day Content Screen
Under PRIA, EPA has 21 days after it receives the pesticide application and the fee to conduct an initial screen of the application’s contents for completeness and for the applicant to make necessary corrections. This page provides the checklists we use.
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El Administrador Regional de la EPA, Martucci, concluye su viaje de una semana a Puerto Rico para destacar la inversión en Brownfields y la restauración ambiental
EPA News Release: El Administrador Regional de la EPA, Martucci, concluye su viaje de una semana a Puerto Rico para destacar la inversión en Brownfields y la restauración ambiental
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A tank of ethanol has become contaminated and must be disposed of. How would we treat this situation for RIN reporting under the RFS program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The RFS regulation envisions various scenarios under which RINs might be retired. The reporting section in the regulation names a few examples: retirement in satisfaction of enforcement action, spill, and use in a boiler or heater. We recognize…
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Data Requirements Checklists for PRIA Fee Categories
Data requirements checklists for PRIA fee categories
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§ 80.101(i)(1) says that conventional gasoline cannot leave a refinery until testing is completed for all parameters used in the compliance calculation. (e)(2) of the same section says that for purposes of meeting (e)(1) a refiner may composite samples and treat that as one batch provided that the composite is not for materials produced or imported over more than one month. May material leave the refinery before analysis is run on the composite? Just a comment, is it really necessary to hold up a batch for at least three hours while an FIA is run for olefins especially since the results of an individual batch are irrelevant for conventional gasoline. Is it EPA's intention to preclude in-line blending of conventional gasoline by this requirement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations have been revised at § 80.101(i)(1) to allow conventional gasoline to leave a refinery or importer facility prior to the completion of sample testing. Note that there are additional constraints related to composite samples at §…
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§ 80.77 of the proposed rule included conventional gasoline in the requirement for product transfer documents. This section, in the final rule, now excludes conventional gasoline and includes that product in § 80.106. This latter section however, states that it applies only "to product that becomes gasoline upon the addition of oxygenate only." Is it correct to interpret that, except for gasoline that has had an oxygenate added, conventional gasoline transfers do not require PTD's to be in compliance?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. All conventional gasoline, including blendstock that requires the addition of oxygenate only, must meet the product transfer document requirements in § 80.106. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Drinking Water Program Fund Allotments
PWSS Allotment history
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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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Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) Grant Program
This page discusses the water system supervision grant program for the United States and territories.
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EPA Regional Administrator Martucci Wraps Weeklong Trip to Puerto Rico Highlighting Brownfields Investment and Environmental Restoration
EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator Martucci Wraps Weeklong Trip to Puerto Rico Highlighting Brownfields Investment and Environmental Restoration
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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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The National Estuary Program in Action Addressing Climate Change
Success stories that highlights how the NEPs implement the Clean Water Act in Ways that are effective, efficient, collaborative and adaptive.
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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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United States 2030 Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal
On September 16, 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first ever domestic goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.