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• 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 the refinery, pipeline and…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• 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 oxygenate blending facility, or…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• 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 winter oxy fuels…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• 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 question and answer was…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• 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 violation was caused by…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• If a pipeline must be classified as a refiner, how would that be handled administratively by EPA? Since pipelines don't own the product, would pipeline have to become buyers and sellers for regulatory purposes?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners must be registered with EPA. The pipeline need not be an owner of the gasoline to be a refiner.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• What are the sampling and testing requirements for terminal blenders (barges, trucks and pipelines)?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If the facility's activities fit the definition of a refiner, it would have to sample and test each batch of gasoline as required under § 80.65(e). If its activities fit the definition of an oxygenate blender, it would…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• What are the requirements for retailers in the covered areas?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Retailers are subject to certain controls and prohibitions on reformulated gasoline as provided in § 80.78 of the regulations, such as meeting downstream standards, not selling conventional gasoline in RFG areas, selling VOC-controlled gasoline for the proper VOC…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• What information needs to be included on RBOB product transfer documents? Is any information about min/max's required?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The PTD requirements pertaining to RBOB can be found in § 80.77. They include the type of RBOB and the type and amount of oxygenate to be added as well as the min/max's for benzene and RVP, for…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• Who accounts for blending operations that take place in leased storage facilities?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the regulations, a refiner is any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a refinery. As indicated above, an oxygenate blender is any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, or…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• Who accounts for imported finished gasoline blended with blendstock?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If the blendstock added to the imported finished gasoline is oxygenate, then the blending activity is ignored and the finished gasoline is reported by the importer. If some other blendstock is blended to the imported finished gasoline, e.g…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• What is the definition of oxygenated fuels program control area and oxygenated fuels program control period?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As per section 80.2 of the regulations, an oxygenated fuels program control area means a geographic area in which only oxygenated gasoline may be sold or dispensed during the control period. An oxygenated fuels program control period means…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• What constitutes a batch of reformulated gasoline? What method should be used by refiners, importers and oxygenate blenders for determining the volume of a batch of reformulated gasoline? What method should be used by independent laboratories? If a refine

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.2(gg) defines a "batch of reformulated gasoline" as "a quantity of reformulated gasoline which is homogeneous with regard to those properties which are specified for reformulated gasoline certification." The reported volume for the batch should be the…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• When preparing samples for oxygen analysis according to section 80.46(g), isn't there a risk of losing volatile components when allowing samples to come to room temperature?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The fractional loss during "limited" sample handling is not measurable for these properties.(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)…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• When will EPA publish a corrected version of the Complex Model? The NOx equation corrections published in the DFRM were not correct, and the published evaporative VOC equations do not yield the published baseline emissions for baseline fuel.

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Errors in the final rule for the reformulated gasoline program and the DFRM are being corrected in an upcoming technical amendment. The spreadsheet version of the Complex Model does not contain the errors that appeared in the Federal…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024