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Are there any plans for laboratory certifications?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. It is the responsibility of each refiner to ensure the quality of the independent laboratory it is using. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Would the following scenario require product transfer documents? At the end of a month of gasoline transactions, the following shortages apply:
Company A owes 10,000 barrels of product to company B
Company B owes 10,000 barrels of product to company C
Company C owes 10,000 barrels of product to company A
Instead of physically shipping any fuel the companies just correct their books to show everything is even.See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA would not consider this a transfer of either custody or title since no actual gasoline is represented by these "book transfers"; however, PTD's must be provided where there is a transfer of title or custody of any…
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La EPA proporcionará más de $477,000 a Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de EE. UU. para ayudar a proteger a los bañistas de enfermedades
EPA News Release: La EPA proporcionará más de $477,000 a Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de EE. UU. para ayudar a proteger a los bañistas de enfermedades
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Will a portable midrange infrared analyzer be acceptable if correlated to the mandatory test method at an independent laboratory for monitoring the oxygenates, benzene, and aromatics for terminals and retailers in their quality assurance programs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Testing for downstream quality assurance programs may be done with test methods other than the regulatory methods if adequate correlation to the regulatory test methods is demonstrated. However, testing for downstream oxygenate blending must be done using the…
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Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Solutia Incorporated in Bridgeport, New Jersey
The Solutia Delaware River Plant has been operating since 1961. The site was part of Monsanto until September 1977 when the corporation spun off its chemical business, which became Solutia Incorporated. The site is adjacent to the Delaware River on 461
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Will a regulated party's defense fail if test results indicate the product is over the standard but within the EPA announced test tolerance?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As discussed in the Enforcement Tolerance section of this document, all gasoline downstream of the refinery or importer level may be released if test results for each parameter show the gasoline to be within the applicable standard plus…
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Will transmix processors be allowed to "stack" ethanol and exceed the maximum allowable oxygenate content without regard to VOC requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Transmix processors who produce RFG are considered to be refiners and are required to meet all RFG standards and requirements that apply to refiners for the RFG produced, including the standards for oxygen and the renewable oxygenate. To…
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EPA to Provide Over $477,000 to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands to Help Protect Beachgoers from Illness
EPA News Release: EPA to Provide Over $477,000 to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands to Help Protect Beachgoers from Illness
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Will oversight programs need to be designed differently for per-gallon versus averaging?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The distinction between RFG certified under the per-gallon versus the average standards only applies at the refinery or importer level. The only standards that apply downstream are per-gallon maximum and minimum standards associated with average standards. Therefore, the…
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Will refiners produce No. 1 diesel fuel at 15 ppm sulfur? What other cold weather-gelling strategies are available to the end-user?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, some refiners will produce No. 1 diesel fuel. There are also various other cold-flow improver additives currently on the market as well. Question and Answer was originally posted at Questions and Answers on the Clean Diesel Fuel…
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Will an independent laboratory be issued an ID for the entire company or must it register each one of its laboratories individually?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If an independent sampling and testing firm runs many laboratories but test results will be gathered at and reported to EPA from a single location, the firm may register once at that location. If, however, reporting will be…
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Will non-obligated parties that can hold title to RINs be required to balance them each quarter?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Every party that owns assigned RINs must comply with the end-of-quarter check described in regulation Section 80.1128(b)(5). This provision ensures that RINs must be transferred with renewable fuel as renewable fuel moves through the distribution system. However, this…
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Will internal auditors be able to perform the attestation audits under the direct supervision of an independent CPA firm? Can the internal audit department meet the attestation requirement using CPAs rather than CIAs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.125(c) provides that an independent CPA (or firm of CPAs) engaged by a refiner, importer or oxygenate blender may complete the attest engagement requirements with the assistance of internal auditors so long as such assistance is in…
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Will EPA waive the requirement for completing all testing prior to shipping for complex model conventional gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.101(i)(1)(i)(A) requires refiners and importers of conventional gasoline to determine the value of each of the properties required for determining compliance with applicable standards by collecting and analyzing a representative sample of each batch of gasoline using…
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Will foreign refiners be allowed to use a sulfur test other than D-2622 in order to verify specification?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Foreign refiners are not regulated parties under the reformulated gasoline regulations, issued on 12/15/93. Importers of foreign gasoline are required to test the gasoline using the regulatory methods, including the regulatory test method for sulfur. (7/1/94) This question…
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Will ethanol and biodiesel plants have to track the RIN all the way to the refiner, or just to the next owner of the renewable fuel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refer to the response to Question 3.3. Each party that owns assigned or unassigned RINs, including an ethanol or biodiesel production plant, is required only to keep records of and report transfers of ownership of those RINs its…
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What is the National Coastal Condition Assessment?
The National Coastal Condition Assessment (NCCA) is a statistical survey of the condition of our Nation’s marine and Great Lakes coasts. The NCCA builds from previous National Coastal Assessments.
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National Coastal Condition Assessment 2015 Technical Support Document
PDF of the National Coastal Condition Assessment 2015 Technical Support Document.
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Where a reformulated gasoline is injected into a "closed" proprietary pipeline, shipped to a "closed" proprietary marketing terminal and loaded into a proprietary truck and no other refiner can physically deliver or receive at these points, is it required to provide PTD's at each of these transfer points?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations require PTD's on each occasion when any person transfers custody or title of RFG, RBOB or conventional gasoline and conventional gasoline blendstock requiring the addition of oxygenate only. When the custody of gasoline changes within a…
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When will EPA publish a corrected version of the Complex Model? The NOx equation corrections published in the DFRM were not correct, and the published evaporative VOC equations do not yield the published baseline emissions for baseline fuel.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Errors in the final rule for the reformulated gasoline program and the DFRM are being corrected in an upcoming technical amendment. The spreadsheet version of the Complex Model does not contain the errors that appeared in the Federal…
