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By our reading of the regulations, the only reporting required of the oxygenate blender who elects to comply with the oxygen standard on a per gallon basis is a yearly report due the last day of February of each year (beginning in 1996) that states the total volume of RFG produced along with the certification statement. Is our interpretation correct? Are we correct in assuming that batch numbers and individual batch data are not required as part of the report?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Your interpretation is correct. (10/31/94) This question and answer was originally posted at
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What is the definition of a responsible corporate officer (RCO) who is required to certify some of the submissions involved?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.75(n), reports to EPA must be signed and certified as correct by the owner or a responsible corporate officer of the refiner, importer, or oxygenate blender. "Owner" means the person who is the principal owner of…
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Question 14, Section VI.C., of the July 1, 1994 Question and Answer Document provides an example of the creation and addition of two different batches to form a composite mixture. All or a portion of this composite is shipped as RFG. How will the refinery account for this shipment under recordkeeping and averaging requirements (assuming the refinery is averaging), based on the scenario outlined in Question 14?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Question 14 relates to in-line blending operations that have petitioned EPA for and received an exemption from the independent sampling and testing requirements of the RFG regulations. In such petitions, refiners often define a "batch" of in-line blended…
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How should a party producing reformulated gasoline or RBOB make the designation of per gallon or average for the appropriate fuel parameters?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If filing by paper, the party should submit the Annual Compliance Designation with its first quarter batch reports. If filing electronically, the first batch report transmitted must include the designations which will apply to each subsequent batch for…
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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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Many refiners currently make a jet fuel meeting <500 ppm requirements. If refiners make a jet fuel meeting 15 ppm requirements, there may be compatibility (safety or performance) issues for jet engine manufacturers. Have these manufacturers been consulted in this rulemaking process? If so, what is their position on use of 15 ppm jet fuel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The highway and nonroad diesel programs do not require that refiners produce 15 ppm sulfur jet fuel and do not set sulfur limits for jet fuel that is not designated as motor vehicle diesel fuel. This would be…
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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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A tank truck common carrier picks up a load of ULSD at a Shell terminal and delivers it to a Flying J truck stop. The carrier only provides a transportation service, does that carrier have any registration or reporting duties?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, the carrier does not have registration or reporting duties as long as taxes were assessed (in the case of highway fuel) or dye was added (in the case of NRLM) at the terminal. There are recordkeeping and…
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If a terminal imports off-spec kerosene (higher than 15 ppm), terminal operators are planning to blend the kerosene with diesel fuel so that the ultimate diesel fuel leaving the terminal gate and entering into commerce meets the 15 ppm standard. Would EPA please confirm that this process is permissible for an importer?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations at § 80.525(d) state that kerosene that a kerosene blender adds, or intends to add, to motor vehicle diesel fuel subject to the 15 ppm sulfur standard must meet the 15 ppm sulfur standard. Section 80.521(b)…
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What is EPA's intent on requiring the location of off-site records on the facility registration?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA needs to know where records are stored so that EPA inspectors may inspect those records. If a facility keeps some or all of its records off-site EPA needs to know the address of the primary off-site storage…
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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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Does the ratio of feedstock quantity used to volume of renewable fuel produced have any significance in the RFS program? Would it impact the qualification of a renewable fuel's pathway or the equivalence value of the fuel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The amount of feedstock used to produce a biofuel is one of many factors that EPA takes into consideration in its assessment of the lifecycle GHG performance of a particular fuel pathway. However, once EPA establishes the lifecycle…
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I haven't seen a reference to the EPA CDX system. Is the CDX system already established or can we submit reports in our choice of electronic formats?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help The Central Data Exchange (CDX) is an established portal through which electronic data are submitted. All registered parties will have to first register with CDX in order to receive a CDX registration number. More information may be found at…
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Regarding a batch for which the blend completion date is on the last day of the EPA reporting quarter, what if shipments, as EPA defines them, are not complete by the time reporting for that quarter is required? Is there going to be any facility to allow
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Sections 80.65(c) and 80.101(d)(1) require refiners to include in compliance calculations each batch of gasoline that is "produced." As a result, a batch of gasoline should be included in the averaging period when the batch is produced, rather…
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My company currently sells distillate blendstocks. Can we continue to sell blendstocks given the new regulations?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, you may continue to sell blendstocks. In addition, it would also be in your best interest, for defense purposes, to identify any product that you ship. Question and Answer was originally posted at Questions and Answers on…
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