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See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA does not issue biofuel subsidies. Please contact the IRS for more information on biofuel subsidies.
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See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA does not issue biofuel subsidies. Please contact the IRS for more information on biofuel subsidies.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The volume of renewable fuel used as the basis for calculating the percentage renewable fuel standards is fixed by CCA 211(o)(2)(B) for certain years (through 2012 for biomass-based diesel and 2022 for other renewable fuels), with volumes after those…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Individual blenders could rely on your association to submit reports to EPA on their behalf. . However you should understand that if any reports are not submitted or are submitted improperly then responsibility would fall upon the individual blender…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No. If necessary, convert the volume in barrels to gallons using the proper conversion factor (42 gals/bbl) and round the result to the nearest whole gallon. When rounding fractional values, values from 0.01 to 0.49 should be rounded down…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Unless a refiner or oxygenate blender has specific and detailed information indicating otherwise, it must be assumed that products have been delivered to all covered areas serviced by the distribution system(s) used. A list of covered areas as of…
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 a…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. For more information on the EPA Moderated Transaction System (EMTS), please visit the User's Guide for the EPA Moderated Transaction System (EMTS).
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The 20% rollover cap under RFS2 is the same as the rollover cap under the RFS1 program. However, the rollover cap only places a limit on previous year RINs that were NOT used for compliance in 2008 or 2009…
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, it…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Companies vary in their internal recordkeeping practices and not all similar records will take identical form. Therefore, in several places in the recordkeeping section (80.1151) we have required that "additional" information be retained. We certainly do not wish to…
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 a…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. EPA will require that each party who wants to report electronically must sign an agreement that the use of electronic reporting methods will be considered equivalent to paper methods and that personal identification numbers assigned by EPA will be…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Importers must use the same per gallon or average designations for all reformulated gasoline imported each year, regardless of where that reformulated gasoline is imported.(7/1/94) This Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Slash and pre-commercial thinnings from non-federal forestland that is not ecologically sensitive forestland qualify as renewable biomass for purposes of RFS. Slash is defined in 40 CFR 80.1401 as the residue, including treetops, branches and bark, left on the…
The five outdoor samples must be collected in addition to the five indoor samples, the two field blanks, and the one sealed blank for a total of thirteen air samples. (40 CFR part 763.90(i)(3)) If the five inside samples are below 70 structures/mm2 and the volume of air used for…