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• What options are available to pipelines for dealing with interface material, i.e., mixtures of two different types of product that result when the different products are adjacent during pipeline movement?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Interface Mixtures Involving RFG or RBOB First, the pipeline must minimize the instances of prohibited mixing, through the sequencing together of product types that may be legally mixed, to the greatest extent possible. Second, in those instances where…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• When replacing conventional gasoline with RFG at a terminal, is it considered blending if the RFG is mixed with conventional bottoms?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . During the transition period prior to December 1, 1994, certified RFG may be put into tanks that contain conventional gasoline bottoms, as long as the tank is essentially filled with certified RFG gasoline on December 1, 1994, and…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• What basis is to be used for reconciliations, volume (gallons or barrels) or weight? What does EPA consider to be perpetual inventory? (Is a plant balancing considered a perpetual inventory?)

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.128 (Agreed upon procedures for refiners and importers) provides for comparison of records on the basis of volume except in section 80.128(b) which provides for analysis of gasoline inventory reconciliation records. While EPA anticipates that the standard…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• What options are available to refiners (and other regulated parties) in California for downgrading federal RFG in 1995, and CARB Phase II RFG in 1996 and beyond, to conventional gasoline for use outside the State of California. Such downgrading may be nec

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Normally, RFG may be redesignated as conventional gasoline without any restrictions, so long as the product transfer documents reflect this redesignation, and the redesignated gasoline is in fact used as conventional gasoline. See the Answers to Questions IX-B-13…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• 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

  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…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• What information in the baseline submittal will be considered Confidential Business Information?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Based on section 80.93(b)(6), the information listed in section 80.93(b)(5) cannot be considered CBI. Any other information in the baseline submission which the refiner wishes to be considered CBI must be clearly identified. Any such claims will be…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• 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

  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…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The regulations and reporting requirements imply that credit trading for oxygen and benzene is allowed across nonattainment areas [and] not just within an area. Is that correct? Is there any geographic restriction with regard to benzene and oxygen trading

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Oxygen and benzene credits may be traded across RFG areas. However, all conditions specified in 80.67(h) must be met.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The regulations require that if "refiners, importers, and oxygenate blenders" supplying a covered area do not complete a survey for that area, then the covered area would be deemed to have failed. Would the subsequent ratchet also apply to "suppliers" to

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Although, from a practical standpoint in the marketplace, there are "suppliers" in the sense it is used in the question, enforcement of average standards are refiner, blender, and importer-based. Therefore, as is mentioned in Survey Question 2 (above)…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The July 1, 1994 Question and Answer Document indicates that sulfur, T90, and olefins are the only simple model RFG standards that can be seen on a refinery aggregated basis. We interpret this clarification to apply only to simple model RFG compliance and

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . All simple model anti-dumping standards can be met on a refinery-aggregate basis pursuant to § 80.101(h).(11/28/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• Section § 80.65(e)(2) contains a mechanism for identifying the test result a refiner or importer must use if the independent lab's test result does not corroborate the refiner's or importer's test result. Does this mechanism apply in a case where the ind

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The mechanisms specified in § 80.65(e)(2)(ii), for instances where a refiner's or importer's RFG test result is not corroborated by the independent lab's test result, apply whenever there is such a non-corroboration. There is no exception in a…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• Starting with the first tender of RFG shipped later this year (1994), transferors are required to provide transferees with transfer documents detailing the type of RFG (VOC or non-VOC, oxygenate program or not, simple or complex) and various minimum or ma

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Not after March 1, 1996. Section 80.81(c)(9) provides an exemption from the RFG product transfer documentation requirements contained in § 80.77 for California gasoline manufactured or imported subsequent to March 1, 1996, that meets the requirements of the…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The preamble to the final rule states that "oxygenate added to a refiner's or importer's gasoline or blendstock downstream of the refinery or import facility may be included in the refiner's or importer's compliance calculations only if the refiner or imp

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) Yes, provided there is sufficient documentation to calculate the proportion of gasoline produced by the refiner, and, all other requirements of §80.101(d)(4)(ii) are met. b) The configuration would have to be such that the refiner could, indeed…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The regulations state that gasolines with RVP equal to or less than the RVP required under 40 CFR 80.27 (Summer Gasoline) shall use the applicable Summer Complex Model under 80.45 and the Winter Model for RVP's greater than that required under 40 CFR 80.2

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.101(g)(5) and (6) state that the emissions performance of gasoline with an RVP that is equal to or less than that required under § 80.27 must be determined using the appropriate summer complex model and that the…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024

• The transfer document requirements state that the name and address of the transferor and transferee be present. When other oil partners, exchangers, are picking up product, will the address of the company headquarters be sufficient since EPA will still be

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, the headquarters address of the transferee would be acceptable. When jobbers pick up gasoline they are the transferees in the transaction and the regulations specifically require that an address for all transferees be included on the product…

  • Last published: July 12, 2024