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Does an ethanol producer who sells undenatured ethanol to a U.S. importer who denatures it at the port need to register with EPA under RFS?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The RFS regulations specify that foreign producers of ethanol for use in transportation fuel, heating oil or jet fuel for import to the US who do not add denaturant to their product, must register under RFS. See 80.1450(b) and…
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When do I get an EPA assigned fuel ID/additive ID?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. You will receive your assigned ID after registering your fuel and/or fuel additive with EPA.
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Am I required to register E15?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. There are unique registration requirements for E15 fuel. See here for more information: E15 Fuel Registration.
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Do you have any updates on the status of EPA’s modeling of palm oil biodiesel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA is actively continuing its FRM evaluation of biodiesel produced from palm oil. We expect to complete that analysis within approximately 6 months, as stated in the preamble to the final rule. All currently available documents including meeting records…
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How long will the grandfathering provision be effective? Once a grandfathered producer registers and completes their engineering review, will their baseline volume ever need to meet the 20% GHG reduction requirement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. If a facility meets the requirements for exemption from the 20% GHG reduction requirement pursuant to 40 CFR 80.1403(c ) or (d), then the baseline volume of renewable fuel produced by that facility is exempt from the 20% GHG…
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How will the volume of corn ethanol produced above the grandfathering threshold be treated?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. For grandfathered facilities, only the baseline volumes are exempt from the 20 percent GHG reduction requirement Thus, RINs may be generated for baseline volumes of fuel regardless of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions performance. Volumes of fuel produced above the…
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How does a foreign grandfathered renewable fuel production facility processing a mixture of feedstocks with different D codes or no D codes classify its production into D code categories so RINs can be generated when the product is imported into the U.S.?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. If the importer is generating the RINs, the importer must obtain all the required information for registration from the foreign producer of the renewable fuel pursuant to 80.1426(a)(2) and 80.1450. In the case of a foreign producer using multiple…
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What is the requirement for submitting the engineering review?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The engineering review must be submitted and accepted by EPA as part of a renewable fuel producer’s initial registration 60 days prior to the generation of RINs, whichever date comes later. Every 3 calendar years from the initial date…
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Can an engineering review on a facility with multiple fuel pathways be combined into one report?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. The engineering review for a renewable fuel facility that contains multiple fuel pathways may be combined into one report. However, all information that is required to be reviewed and verified by the third party engineer conducting the engineering…
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Are engineering drawings and process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) required to be submitted as part of the engineering report?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Engineering drawings or P&IDs are not required to be submitted in the engineering report, but EPA suggests the third party engineer provide a simple diagram to help supplement the description of the process train for each renewable fuel pathway…
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Can a gallon of ethanol generate more than 1.0 RIN in RFS2?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The number of RINs that can be generated for each gallon of renewable fuel are determined by the Equivalence Values. See 80.1415 and 80.1426(f)(2)-(6). Equivalence Values are based on energy content in the renewable fuel in comparison to ethanol…
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How will engineering reports be treated in terms of public access and CBI? Will there be web access for submitted reports?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA will process any public requests for engineering reports on a case-by-case basis and there will be no general web access to the engineering reports. Engineering reports, or portions thereof, for which the submitter asserts a confidential business information…
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Which fuels are exempt?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Exempt are fuels or fuel additives marketed solely for use off-road, such as non-road diesel or fuel additives solely for use in marine engines, and on-road fuels that are not gasoline or diesel, such as E85 or compressed natural…
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Is there any volume cap when using previously-retired 2008 or 2009 biodiesel RINs to satisfy an obligated party?s 2010 Biomass Based Diesel RVO? Can 2008 or 2009 biodiesel RINs that were previously-retired in 2009 also be used to satisfy Advanced Biofuel
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. 2008 and 2009 biodiesel and renewable diesel RINs (that is, RFS1 RINs with a D code of 2 and RR code of 15 or 17) used for compliance purposes in 2009 can also be used to reduce the 2010…
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What if pricing changes after the information has been reported to EMTS?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Parties will not be required to resubmit price information if it changes. The price information must be accurate rounded to the nearest cent (US Dollar) at the time the transactional information is sent to EMTS.
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Is the volume of renewable fuels a fixed number of gallons? How does this affect an obligated party's requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The volume of renewable fuel used as the basis for calculating the percentage renewable fuel standards is fixed by CCA 211(o)(2)(B) for certain years (through 2012 for biomass-based diesel and 2022 for other renewable fuels), with volumes after those…
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Where can I find more information on biofuel subsidies?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA does not issue biofuel subsidies. Please contact the IRS for more information on biofuel subsidies.
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For a transfer in ownership of a volume of renewable fuel, may a party include the applicable product transfer document (PTD) language required at §80.1453(a)(12) on an accompanying PTD for RINs assigned to that renewable fuel as described in §80.1453(a
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. Under §80.1453(a), PTDs must identify a transfer of ownership of a volume of neat and/or blended renewable fuel or separated RINs. In general practice, this would mean invoices or bills of lading. However, in the case where additional…
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How do I find a listing of all obligated parties pertaining to the new RFS2 Program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Review the Fuels Programs Registrants list located at https://cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-otaq-reg-II/action/reportExternal/Part80FuelsProgramslist. Any party registered as an importer or refiner for either the gasoline or diesel programs may be an obligated party in any given compliance year.
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What are the recordkeeping requirements for a renewable fuel producer that uses used cooking oils and fats as feedstocks for renewable fuel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Renewable fuel producers using used cooking oils or animal wastes as feedstocks are required under 40 CFR 80.1454(d)(3) to obtain from their feedstock supplier, and maintain in their records, documents which certify that the feedstock meets the definition of…