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Global Emissions of Substitutes for Ozone Depleting Substances
The emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs), which are used as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances (ODS), are rising worldwide.
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Tips for Reducing Pesticide Impacts to Threatened and Endangered Species
EPA provides tips for reducing pesticide impact to threated and endangered species
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Anticoagulant Prairie Dog Bait Risk Mitigation Measures to Protect Endangered Species
This Web page contains information on how certified pesticide applicators can use anticoagulant prairie dog bait products such as Rozol and Kaput-D while minimizing exposure risks to listed and non-target species.
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Sargassum Inundation Events (SIEs)
Sargassum Inundation Events - What is Sargassum?
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Is corn oil extracted from distiller?s grains and solubles (DGS) eligible for RINs under RFS2?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Biodiesel or renewable diesel made from non-food grade corn oil extracted from DGS that is made from renewable biomass is eligible to generate RINs. See Table 1 to 80.1426.
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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…
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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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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…
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EPA Pesticide Container and Repackaging Regulations - Flow Chart 1
Flow Chart 1: Is this container a service container or a portable refillable container?
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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…
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EPA Pesticide Container and Repackaging Regulations - Flow Chart 3
Flow Chart 3: Can I fill this small portable refillable container
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EPA Accepting Public Comments on Candidates for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP)
EPA Accepting Public Comments on Candidates for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP)
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EPA Releases Update to Popular School Integrated Pest Management Publication
An updated version reflects recent innovations in school IPM, provides links to new information, and has been redesigned into an easily printable format. It provides an overview of IPM and details the steps a school can follow to establish an IPM program.
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…