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• Must the refiner track the barrels and qualities of each batch of gasoline beyond the tank in which it was certified?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No, but the batch volume is not determined by tank volume; rather, it is determined based on shipment volume.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti

  • Last published: August 31, 2021

• If foreign product is acquired by an importer through an exchange agreement instead of a sale, does it change identification of the importer for RFG reporting purposes?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. The person who is the importer of record for Customs purposes should be the importer for RFG purposes, and this is usually the gasoline owner, regardless of how that ownership was acquired.(7/1/94) This

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• If one company acquires foreign product in transit, then sells it to a second company while still in transit, who is the importer?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The importer is the party identified above, the party primarily liable for payment of duties for Customs purposes when the gasoline enters the United States.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• If terminals utilize the services of outside laboratories for periodic sampling and testing, how can the terminal limit exposure to liability in the event non-complying product from the tested tank(s) leaves the terminal during the three or four days befo

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. A terminal-distributor's release of RFG that does not meet applicable standards would constitute a violation of § 80.78(a)(1) for which the distributor would be liable, and it would not be a defense if the

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• If RFG is shipped from a refinery to a terminal through a proprietary pipeline system, may the pipeline rely on the refinery and terminal test results to satisfy the quality assurance defense element?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. In a case where EPA documents a downstream standard violation at a proprietary terminal that is served only by a proprietary pipeline that receives gasoline only from a proprietary refinery, the company that owns

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• If, due to piping constraints, a refiner must put a purchased or inter-refinery transferred batch of finished gasoline through the refinery blendstock system, but does so without the batch losing integrity, must the refiner include the batch in his compli

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. As per § 80.65(i) of the regulations, any refiner, importer, or oxygenate blender shall exclude from all compliance calculations, the volume and properties of any RFG that is produced at another refinery or

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• In areas where an oxy fuels program is in effect, how do these requirements coincide with RFG requirements? In areas where there is an overlap, are any regulatory changes necessary by the state?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. In areas that are covered by both a state's winter oxy fuels and the federal RFG programs, the fuel must comply with both program requirements. Therefore, the more stringent 2.7 wt% minimum requirement of the

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• Must refiners defer to regulatory references to blendstock produced on a batch basis, as all blendstocks made by refiners are produced from continuous processes (even purchased blendstocks are received at regular intervals and are typically blended on a f

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. Even continuous streams are only measured periodically and it would be best to apply the measurements to the volume produced most closely to the time of the measurement. In other words, break up the continuous

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• Must a refiner identify a single independent lab for each refinery?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. Although an independent lab may use a substitute lab for certain tasks, a refiner is required to name a single independent lab for each refinery. It is this independent lab with which EPA will communicate

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• May a refiner use the same independent lab to satisfy the RFG independent sampling and testing requirements and to conduct sampling and testing needs that are unrelated to the RFG requirements (e.g., internal quality assurance or custody transfer sampling

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes.(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)(333 pp, 18.17 MB, EPA420-R-03-009

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• May RFG that is found to be off-spec downstream of the refinery or import facility be corrected by blending "clean" non-oxygenate blendstocks?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Any party who combines blendstocks other than oxygenate with RFG is producing gasoline, and must meet all the RFG standards and requirements applicable to a refiner. In addition, all applicable RFG standards must

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• May import facilities be grouped together for compliance and reporting purposes?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. For the most part, separate import facilities owned by one importer must be grouped together. All compliance demonstrations are to be made based on the aggregate of all gasoline imported into the United States by

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• It is our understanding that the conventional gasoline message for product transfer documents "this product does not meet the requirements for reformulated gasoline.." is intended to prevent the sale or use of conventional gasoline in reformulated gasolin

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The language regarding conventional gasoline specified at § 80.106(a)(1)(vii) must be included in the product transfer documentation for all transfers of conventional gasolines, and this specific language

  • Last published: August 30, 2021

• Question: What does EPA mean by "blending RVP of oxygenate" (equation in § 80.91(e)(4)(i)(B))?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. This means the effect that an oxygenate has on RVP when it is assumed to have a constant RVP effect per volume added. This is analogous to the blending RVP for any other hydrocarbon, except that blending RVPs for

  • Last published: August 31, 2021

• Please describe the survey areas which are currently applicable.

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Attached to this document as Attachment II is a list of the presently applicable survey areas including opt-in areas. This list is current as of June, 1994. (The Agency has promulgated a "corrections notice" which

  • Last published: August 31, 2021