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Environmental Education: Water Purification by Evaporation and Condensation
A class activity to illustrate how the water cycle helps to purify water.
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Would it be acceptable to provide all required product transfer document information on the bill-of-lading, including the transferee's name, except for the transferee's address, provided that the address is included on a follow-up invoice?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As long as all product transfer documentation information is provided to the transferee, either prior to, during or immediately following the transfer of title or custody of the gasoline, the PTD requirements are met. As a result, it…
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Tracking Pollution: A Hazardous Whodunit Teacher's Guide
This teacher's guide contains instructions and talking points for the "Hazardous Whodunit" Activity.
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Will oversight programs and paper trail need to extend to conventional gasoline in order to comply with anti-dumping?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The requirements of the anti-dumping program apply only to refiners and importers. As a result, there are no downstream standards or requirements for conventional gasoline, other than those related to the prohibitions against using conventional gasoline in RFG…
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Will each compartment of a truck loaded at the rack at the refinery be deemed a different batch of reformulated gasoline and thus need a batch identification number? Could the invoice number serve as the unique identification number for that shipment?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In the case of reformulated gasoline produced by adding oxygenate to RBOB in a truck, each truck compartment is a separate batch of reformulated gasoline. If the oxygen standard is being met on average, the reformulated gasoline in…
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Which non-obligated parties are allowed to participate in the credit trading program? Producers (with extra value RINs), oxygenate blenders, marketers?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Anyone can participate in the RIN trading program, subject to the requirement that the party first register with the EPA and then adhere to other regulatory requirements, including submitting required reports (such as quarterly reports on RINs held)…
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Frequent Questions: Radioactive Waste
View frequently asked questions and answers related to radioactive waste by topic.
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What is the process to retire a RIN? Is this a reporting function that is done with the EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . RINs are retired for reasons specified in the regulations and must be reported to EPA. A retired RIN may not be used for compliance purposes or traded to another party. A retired RIN is reported to EPA in…
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Best Practices for Water Systems in Preparing Consumer Confidence Reports
A guide to best practices for water systems in preparing and distributing their Consumer Confidence Report.
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What metering system does the plant use to measure gallons? Is it a production meter, a load-out meter, etc.?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA regulations provide flexibility in terms of the specific mechanisms through which producers and importers measure volumes for purposes of generating RINs. However, the approach should ensure that gallons are neither systematically ignored nor systematically double-counted. Also, approaches…
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Radiological Emergency Response: Planning and Past Responses
This page highlights EPA's experience in planning and responding to foreign and domestic radiological incidents.
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What happens if a party registers with EPA then engages in no activities that must be reported during a given compliance period?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no obligation to report if no activity occurs. Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (pdf) (55 pp, 221 KB, EPA420-F-07-041a, August 2007)
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Section 80.600(a)(10) says, Any refiner or importer shall maintain copies of all product transfer documents required under §80.590. If all information required in paragraph (a)(6) of this section is on the product transfer document for a batch, then the provisions of this paragraph (a)(10) shall satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a)(6) of this section for that batch.” Does that mean that if a refiner or importer has a PTD containing the information no other record is required? That seems unneeded. Does that paragraph mean something else?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.600(a)(10) first requires that product transfer documents under § 80.590 be maintained by refiners and importers. It then states that if such product transfer documents contain all the information required under paragraph (a)(6) of § 80.600 for…
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Stormwater Rules and Notices-Final Rules
Congress gives EPA authority to develop and implement federal stormwater regulations which must go through a rulemaking process. The process includes a proposal, public comment, and a final rule that must then be implemented and enforced.
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The RIN is too long to fit onto my bill of lading. What are my options?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . An assigned RIN must appear in its entirety on product transfer documents (PTDs) identifying a transfer of ownership of a volume of renewable fuel. Substitute codes are not permitted. See regulation Section 80.1153. (In general PTDs would not…
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Regulation Section 80.1131(b)(4) states that, in the event that the same RIN is transferred to two or more parties, "all such RINs will be deemed to be invalid, unless EPA in its sole discretion determines that some portion of these RINS is valid." What’s the process to determine if a portion of RINs are valid?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In many circumstances, EPA will be able to determine whether any of the RINs (or particular gallon-RINs within a batch-RIN) are valid from the information submitted to EPA in the RIN generation and transaction reports. Through these reports…
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If an importer is unsure of what terminals might be involved in importing gasoline (RFG or conventional), may importers register more terminals than might be used?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. However, an importer does not need to register each import facility it uses (see previous question). (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Best Management Practices for Flow-Through Aquaculture
Best Management Practices for Flow-Through Aquaculture
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Best Management Practices for Net Pen Aquaculture
Best Management Practices for Net Pen Aquaculture
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What are limitations, if any, on blending RFG with materials for sale into non-RFG markets?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . When RFG is blended with blendstocks, the blender is considered a refiner under the antidumping requirements and thus is responsible for the properties of the blendstock which is added to the finished RFG. Compliance calculations for blendstocks which…