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Please define any restriction in the RFG program on mixing ethanol and ether fuels.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.78(a)(8), no person may combine VOC-controlled RFG produced using ethanol with VOC-controlled RFG produced using any other oxygenate during the period of January 1 through September 15 of each year. This prohibition applies at all locations…
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Could a refinery producing conventional gasoline composite samples up to one month, ship to another location and run testing there?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. The regulations do not specify where or by whom the testing may be performed. The refiner or importer is ultimately responsible for sampling and testing each batch of conventional gasoline and reporting the results to EPA. Composite…
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It is our understanding that, if a portion of the gasoline produced by a refinery located within the GPA is sold outside of the United States, that gasoline is not subject to the sulfur standards and it only has to meet the standards of the country to whi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Gasoline that is exported for sale outside the United States is not subject to the requirements of the gasoline sulfur rule, including gasoline produced by a refiner located within the GPA. See § 80.200(c).
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How will EPA enforce their regulations in California? Will the Agency defer to the California Air Resources Board?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Prior to the start of the California Phase II RFG program in March 1996, EPA generally will enforce the federal RFG program California in the same manner in which it will be enforced in other parts of the…
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Section 80.65(e) lists properties that product must be tested for before shipment. Some of these do not have standards in the simple model. Is it necessary to test, and ultimately report, those parameters not required for the simple model? Is reporting of
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners and importers must test for each parameter listed in § 80.65(e) for RFG certified under the simple model with the exception of T-50 and, in the case of non-VOC controlled RFG, RVP. However, in the case of…
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At a recent seminar hosted by SIGMA, EPA officials indicated that transfer documentation would be satisfactory if initiated by the transferee as long as both parties agreed to this system. Please confirm this understanding?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Your understanding is correct. However, while EPA would not object to a cooperative agreement between the transferor and the transferee, the transferor remains liable if the transferee does not have all the required PTD information for each batch.(9/26/94)…
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On the registration forms it seems you are forced to check only one primary activity (refiner, oxygenate blender, importer, or independent lab). Do you submit two forms if you are both a refiner and importer?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The final forms have been changed to register each company once for all applicable activities. As before, each facility will be registered separately for each activity that is undertaken at the facility. Import facilities need not be…
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If re-transmission is necessary due to fault on EPA?s part, why won?t EPA pay for re-transmission?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will take all reasonable steps to properly maintain equipment, services, and testing necessary to effectively and reliably send and receive documents via EDI. Although EPA is unable to pay for re-transmission costs, we will exercise the highest…
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Is independent sampling and testing required of oxygenate blenders?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A party who meets the definition of oxygenate blender is not required to have the gasoline it produces sampled or tested by an independent lab. However, an oxygenate blender is required to sample and test the gasoline it…
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Could we become the delegated authority for submission of reports on behalf of our members?
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…
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In a situation where an importer leases tankage from another company, e.g., from a for-hire terminal, who must register such import facility, the company that owns the terminal, the importer that leases the tankage, or both?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.2(r), an importer is defined as "a person who imports gasoline or gasoline blending stocks or components from a foreign country into the United States...." Accordingly, it is the importer of the gasoline, and not the…
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Who is the transferor and who is the transferee in the case of an exchange transaction? The sequence of physical custody is from terminal to truck to retail outlet, but the sequence of legal custody is from the terminal to exchange partner to marketer to
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Any party who is receiving title or custody of the delivery would be considered a transferee, any party who relinquishes title or custody would be considered a transferor and any party who both receives and relinquishes title or…
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I will be making renewable gasoline from renewable crude. Section 80.1115(b)(6) of the regulations says I must use an Equivalence Value of 1.0 even though renewable gasoline clearly warrants a higher Equivalence Value. Can I submit a petition?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. See regulation Section 80.1115(c)(2). However, for renewable fuels other than renewable diesel which are made from renewable crudes, information on the energy content and/or renewable content may be difficult to obtain. This is why we designated the…
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Regulation Section 80.1126(d)(1), which says "must," seems in conflict with Section 80.1126(d)(2) which says "may". Is the correct reading that any volume of renewable fuel that leaves a producer's gate on or after 9/1/07 MUST have RINs assigned?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Renewable fuel producers and importers may generate RINs for renewable fuel they own on September 1, 2007 that was produced or imported earlier, and must generate RINs for renewable fuel produced or imported on or after September 1…
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Would the following scenario require product transfer documents? At the end of a month of gasoline transactions, the following shortages apply: Company A owes 10,000 barrels of product to company B Company B owes 10,000 barrels of product to company C Com
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA would not consider this a transfer of either custody or title since no actual gasoline is represented by these "book transfers"; however, PTD's must be provided where there is a transfer of title or custody of any…
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