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SAS Project: Enhanced Florida DEP Statewide MS4 Stormwater Permit Template
Project information about the SAS project titled "Enhanced Florida DEP Statewide MS4 Stormwater Permit Template."
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SAS Project: South FL Rule for Preventing Aquatic Vegetation, Trash and Debris
Project information about the SAS project titled "Plastic Free Cities."
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Will a foreign refiner or blender, or an importer of RFG produced overseas, be given some kind of credit for plant emissions outside the United States?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The RFG regulations do not extend to foreign refineries. (8/29/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Will EPA waive penalties imposed for late reports if reports are late due to mechanical or electronic failures?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will not waive penalties arising from late reporting. Reports must be submitted within the times specified in the regulations. EPA believes that parties have ample time (approximately 60 days) to prepare and submit reports following each reporting…
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Will EPA allow the electronic storage of records?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, so long as reasonable access and audit controls are in place. This question and answer was originally posted at
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Will carbon monoxide non-attainment areas have to market 2.0% oxygen during one season and 2.7% oxygen during another season?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If an RFG area is also an oxygenated fuels program control area, then the RFG distributed to that area during the designated carbon monoxide control season will, pursuant to section 211(m) of the Act, require an average of…
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Will the EPA allow certain pipeline companies to maintain their recently elected 1.18 percent maximum benzene specification, which could tighten supply into major RFG consuming areas?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA has no authority to allow or disallow gasoline specifications that are set by a pipeline or any other party, as long as they are in compliance with the applicable regulations. (8/29/94) This question and answer was posted…
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Will the Complex Model for NOx emissions take additive effects into account?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. However, the Complex Model can be augmented through the vehicle testing procedure outlined in the final rule to include the emission effects of an additive. (7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at
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Why must oxygen and benzene credits pass only from creator to user? Why can't a blender or importer buy credits in advance as a safety measure, and then sell or resell them if/when (within the averaging period) it is established that it has performed better than expected?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations do not provide for the reselling of credits. However, there may be ways for businesses to provide some flexibility, such options to buy credits which extend to the end of the averaging period. (8/29/94) This question…
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Where should registrations and reports be sent?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Attn: REFGAS (6406J) 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20460 (7/1/94) This question and answer was originally posted at
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Nourishing Ecology and Society with Beachgrass
The largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Hurricane Sandy, required an enormous response. Partners at the national, regional, local, and tribal levels coordinated to help the recovery effort—and often to enhance coastal resilience at the same time.
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Where is it required in the regulations that the PTD's for RFG must designate the finished gasoline as meeting the oxygenate standard on the per-gallon or average? Would it not be sufficient to infer the average standards from the listings of min/max's on the PTD? This requirement is not found in § 80.77.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The PTD requirements for RFG do not require that gasoline be designated as meeting the standards, including the oxygenate standard, per-gallon or average. Section 80.77 does require that PTD information include the minimum and maximum downstream standards with…
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Teach, Learn, Grow: The Value of Green Infrastructure in Schoolyards
This webcast will address strategies and lessons learned from two dynamic outreach and education programs.
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Where a company is both an obligated party and an importer of renewable fuel, the company will generate RINs in its importer capacity and separate the RINs from the volume of imported fuel in its capacity as an obligated party. Is this activity considered
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No transaction report is required for internal company transfers as all RINs are owned at the corporate level. The company would submit a RIN generation report for the RINs it generated for the imported renewable fuel and a…
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Power Sector Evolution
This webpage describes the changes in the power sector over time in the United States.
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Modernizing Compliance: Best Practices and Technologies for Performance Based Stormwater Management
This webcast will address strategies and lessons learned from two dynamic outreach and education programs.
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Where in the final anti-dumping regulations are oxygenate blenders excluded from the antidumping requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Although oxygenate blenders have been considered refiners under previous EPA programs, they have been defined separately from refiners under § 80.2 for the purpose of specific requirements under the RFG program. The regulations specify that only refiners and…
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Section 80.1164(a)(1)(ii) of the regulation states that the CPA conducting the attest engagement must obtain documentation of any volumes of renewable fuel used in gasoline during the reporting year; compute and report as a finding the volumes of renewable fuel represented in these documents. What does this mean?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . This provision is intended to require the CPA to include in his or her report any volume of renewable fuel actually used in gasoline produced at the refinery or imported by the importer, but is not intended to…
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Why are credits and allotments expressed in ppm-gallons and not in ppm-barrels, since barrels or thousand barrels are the commercial units used by refiners?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Consistent with the requirements under the RFG program, § 80.195(a)(2) provides that, for purposes of sulfur compliance and reporting, volumes are expressed in gallons. Accordingly, credits and allotments are required to be calculated and reported in units of…
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Green Infrastructure Community Engagement
Green infrastructure can help reduce inequities through meaningful engagement and culturally relevant designs.