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Does blending oxygenate in conventional gasoline at a terminal require the terminal operator to be registered as an "oxygenate blender?"
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The downstream blender of oxygenates exclusively into conventional gasoline is not subject to the anti-dumping requirements and therefore does not require registration by the operator. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Do third party marketers like X Company need to track RINs from the ethanol plant to the buyer?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If X Company takes ownership of ethanol along with assigned RINs, it would be required to register with the EPA and would be subject to the recordkeeping, reporting, product transfer document and attest engagement requirements of regulation Sections…
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Does a company that produces RFG have to register all oxygenate blending facilities or just those that produce RFG? All import locations or just those that import RFG?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Registration is required only for oxygenate blending facilities at which RFG is produced, and not for oxygenate blending facilities where oxygenate is blended with conventional gasoline only. If an oxygenate blender decides to blend RBOB with oxygenates to…
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Utility Green Power Products
This page outlines optional utility products that allow customers to procure bundled electricity and RECs from their utility or default service provider.
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Community Choice Aggregation
This page outlines Community Choice Aggregation where local governments procure power on behalf of their accounts from an alternative supplier while still receiving transmission and distribution service from their existing utility provider.
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History of Voluntary Markets
The following timeline provides an overview of different milestones that contributed to the emergence of the U.S. voluntary green power market.
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On-Site Project Development Process
Most on-site renewable energy projects follow a common project development pathway from a project's conception to its completion. This page outlines the major steps you will take along your pathway. Each step includes various resources and tools to assist
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Do batch numbers have to be sequential? Do they have to correspond to the month that they represent (i.e. 1 - 12)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Batch numbers need not be sequential and need not represent a full month. They need only be unique within a calendar year. Each producer or importer of renewable fuel can define a batch in whatever way it chooses…
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Do the sample handling requirements for oxygen and oxygenate content apply to the analysis of other fuel parameters?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The sample handling procedures must comply with the requirements of their individual testing methods. Aromatics, oxygen and oxygenate, benzene, olefins, and sulfur samples should be at room temperature, although aromatics samples for GC-MS analysis are measured gravimetrically and…
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Do I have to register to use CDX and is this a separate registration process?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . You will have to register with CDX. (Registering with CDX is not the same as registering under regulation Section 80.1150.) Instructions are available via our Reporting for Fuel Programs web site. Question and Answer was originally posted at…
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Do common carriers have any requirements or potential liability pertaining to the anti-dumping provision for conventional gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Common carriers (like all other regulated parties) are prohibited from distributing conventional gasoline for use in an RFG covered area, and must comply with the product transfer document requirements of § 80.106. (8/29/94) This question and answer was…
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Do terminals need to register?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Terminals do not need to register. However, terminals that engage in activities that require registration must be registered. For example, if the terminal takes ownership of RINs, then it must be registered as a RIN owner. Question and…
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Do all properties have to be analyzed on-line to get an exemption from the independent laboratory sampling and testing requirement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. However, EPA would prefer that in-line blending operations at least be capable of analyzing benzene, oxygen, and RVP on line. If the operation does not have the capability to analyze all properties on-line, the refiner must indicate…
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Could we become the delegated authority for submission of reports on behalf of our members?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Individual blenders could rely on your association to submit reports to EPA on their behalf. However you should understand that if any reports are not submitted or are submitted improperly then responsibility would fall upon the individual blender…
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Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Water Quality and Enable Small Public Water Systems to Provide Safe Drinking Water
Provides water and wastewater system staff and private well owners with training and tools to enhance system operations and management practices, and support EPA’s continuing efforts to protect public health and promote sustainability.
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For conventional gasolines, the annual compliance report is based on all gasolines. Can one monthly composite be made up of all grades of gasolines and all seasons produced in that month, rather than one composite for each grade and season when compliance is demonstrated with the simple model? the complex?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For the criteria for using composite samples for compliance calculations, see § 80.101(i)(2). (10/17/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Confirm that an RFG property measured from a sample collected during an EPA inspection is in technical violation if that property exceeds an applicable standard, but that no enforcement action will be brought by EPA unless the property exceeded the standard in question by at least the enforcement tolerance for that property.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As stated in the preamble to the RFG final rule, at 59 FR 7764 (February 16, 1994), EPA will not initiate an enforcement action on the basis of a test result from a gasoline sample collected at a…
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Confirm that the only specification for a blendstock being added to finished gasoline in early use of the Simple Model is a per gallon specification not exceeding the antidumping baseline exhaust benzene level, (per Section 80.101(g)(3)), and later the exhaust toxic and exhaust NOx baseline levels in 1998 and beyond. This is very important to clearly understand as regular CBOB is not a fungible grade of gasoline. Component blending with finished regular and ethanol is a very important option to blending regular CBOB with ethanol in terminals. This option is critical whenever the refinery that feeds the CBOB terminals requires maintenance or has operational problems, and no other refinery that feeds that terminal makes regular CBOB.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the simple model for 1995-1997, refiners and importers are required to meet standards for exhaust benzene, sulfur, olefins and T90 on an annual average basis for conventional gasoline and, under certain conditions, applicable blendstocks as specified in…
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This Is Smart Growth - Publication
This Is Smart Growth illustrates how communities can turn their visions into reality, using smart growth techniques to improve development. The report features 40 places around the country that have found success by implementing smart growth principles.
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Using Smart Growth Techniques as Stormwater Best Management Practices
This report reviews common smart growth techniques and examines how they can be used to prevent or manage stormwater runoff.