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When replacing conventional gasoline with RFG at a terminal, is it considered blending if the RFG is mixed with conventional bottoms?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. During the transition period prior to December 1, 1994, certified RFG may be put into tanks that contain conventional gasoline bottoms, as long as the tank is essentially filled with certified RFG gasoline on December 1, 1994, and the…
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When preparing samples for oxygen analysis according to section 80.46(g), isn't there a risk of losing volatile components when allowing samples to come to room temperature?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The fractional loss during "limited" sample handling is not measurable for these properties. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November 10, 1997 (pdf)…
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Who is required to register for the Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-dumping Program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Refiners and importers of conventional gasoline, reformulated gasoline or RBOB and oxygenate blenders producing reformulated gasoline by blending RBOB with oxygenates must register with EPA prior to producing or importing such products. Independent laboratories must register prior to being…
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Who is the transferor and who is the transferee in the case of an exchange transaction? The sequence of physical custody is from terminal to truck to retail outlet, but the sequence of legal custody is from the terminal to exchange partner to marketer to
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Any party who is receiving title or custody of the delivery would be considered a transferee, any party who relinquishes title or custody would be considered a transferor and any party who both receives and relinquishes title or custody…
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Who is a renewable fuel producer? Will the EPA recognize ethanol marketing companies as producers? Can the term "producer" apply to a marketing company who represents various producing plants?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Renewable fuel producers are parties that produce renewable fuel (i.e. convert a renewable feedstock into a renewable fuel). RINs must be generated by the producer and assigned to renewable fuel by the time title to the renewable fuel is…
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Who is the oxygenate blender in a situation where a petroleum marketer who holds title to the gasoline engages a common carrier tank truck company to transport the gasoline, and, upon the completion of loading the truck, but before leaving the marketer's
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. In both scenarios, since the marketer owns the gasoline and the carrier owns the oxygenate blending facility (i.e., the truck in which blending takes place) and executes the blending operation, both parties fit the definition of an oxygenate blender…
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To whom does the 20% limit on previous year RINs apply?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. This limit applies only to obligated parties. Under regulation Section 80.1127(a)(2), no more than 20% of the gallon-RINs used by an obligated party to meet its RVO can be previous-year RINs (having a YYYY code that is one year…
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Why is the Digital Herzog excluded as a compliance test acceptable for RVP measurement under section 80.46?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Method 3 was selected for RVP measurement because it has been shown to have much greater precision than the Digital Herzog. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers…
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Would a refinery that receives RBOB from another refinery and blends oxygenate(s) with that RBOB to make RFG also have to register as an oxygenate blender?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. Under § 80.2(mm), an oxygenate blender means "any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, or who owns or controls the blendstock or gasoline used or the gasoline produced at an oxygenate blending…
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Would it be permissible to send a manual to downstream parties detailing the minimum and maximum values and requirements of each standardized product code (including different product codes for the difference minimum and maximum standards that would apply
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. It would be permissible to use codes to represent all required PTD information except for the statements required under § 80.106(a)(1)(vii) and (b) for conventional gasoline and certain conventional blendstocks. The response to Question 4 of the Product Transfer…
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Would it be permissible to combine (i.e., commingle) any-oxygenate RBOB with an RBOB designated for blending with 10 vol% denatured ethanol, provided the new RBOB (resulting from the combination) is designated for blending with 10% denatured ethanol?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Section 80.78(a)(7) provides that "no person may combine any reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending with any other gasoline, blendstock, or oxygenate...," and § 80.78(a)(7)(ii), states that an RBOB may be combined with "other RBOB for which the same…
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Are sampling requirements based on 50% of volume or on one-half of the number of batches?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Sampling requirements are based on the number of batches, not the volume, over a minimum of six months. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994…
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Criminal Press Releases - 2021
This is a list of press releases announcing results of EPA criminal cases adjudicated in U.S. courts for 2021.
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EPA Deputy Administrator Fotouhi Visits Auto Supply Facilities in Southeast Michigan, Advances Key Agency Pillar
Earlier this week, EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi traveled around Southeast Michigan to advance a key pillar of the Trump EPA’s Powering the Great American Comeback initiative—protecting and bringing back American auto jobs.
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Section 11: Surface Water - Likelihood of Release
Learn about the surface water pathway, the most complex pathway for evaluating Hazard Ranking System (HRS) scores.
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Brownfields Reuse in Tribal Nations
Document providing examples of Brownfields projects in small, rural, and Tribal communities that received Brownfields funding.
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All I do is produce corn ethanol and sell it all to X Company, which is an ethanol marketer. Do I have to do anything, or can X Company generate the RINs for me?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Each producer of renewable fuel is responsible for generating the RINs that represent that renewable fuel. This function cannot be delegated or assigned to any other party, including a party to whom a producer sells its product. Question and…
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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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In RFG areas, at unattended cardlock fueling facilities, where should the three most recent PTDs be maintained? It seems to make little sense that they be stored on-site, since the driver normally does not leave any paperwork at the unattended cardlock fa
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. In the situation described, it would be acceptable for the PTDs to be maintained at the marketer's nearest office. (5/23/95) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1…
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The regulations state that a party must register three months prior to producing or importing gasoline or blendstocks under the RFG and anti-dumping Program (40 CFR 80.76). If a party receives its ID numbers from EPA prior to the end of the three month pe
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The party does not need to wait. The three month period was intended to give EPA adequate time to process registrations. A party may proceed with production and importation after receiving an EPA registration number. (1/30/95) This question and…