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Does the gasoline sulfur rule require refiners and downstream parties to account for the sulfur content of a registered fuel additive, such as a corrosion inhibitor used to help prevent sulfur-related fuel gauge sending unit failures?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Currently, there is no requirement under the gasoline sulfur rule for refiners or downstream parties to demonstrate compliance with the gasoline sulfur standards for registered fuel additives. Parties who add fuel additives, however, are responsible for ensuring that…
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Section 80.335(a)(2) requires refiners to retain sample portions for the most recent 20 samples collected, or for each sample collected during the most recent 21 day period, whichever is greater. Is a refinery that produces only one or two batches of gaso
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The cited section of the regulation specifies the minimum number of batch samples from a refinery, which once created, must be maintained (twenty). The regulation does not specifically address the maximum amount of time that any particular sample…
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When you make the annual designation as an importer does it apply to all of your imported gasoline, or can you designate average or per gallon compliance parameters for each import facility?
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 Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline…
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What if pricing changes after the information has been reported to EMTS?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Parties will not be required to resubmit price information if it changes. The price information must be accurate rounded to the nearest cent (US Dollar) at the time the transactional information is sent to EMTS.
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If a transaction must be reversed for some reason, does the reversal have to track specific RINs or will fungible RINs work? How is this reported?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The original transaction (involving the specific RINs) should be nullified and, if already reported to EPA, corrected reports should be submitted. If discovered prior to being reported to EPA, then all associated records must be corrected. If a…
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A refiner produces a batch of gasoline at its refinery. It collects a sample of the gasoline and conducts certification testing. The sulfur content test result is less than the 80 ppm refinery level standard. The gasoline is then moved to another tank wit
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The downstream standard applies to samples of gasoline subsequent to movement of the gasoline from the tank in which certification sampling is conducted, even when these subsequent samples are collected within the refinery or import facility where the…
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What are the reports required for a refiner who produces RFG under the per gallon option?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A refiner meeting the certification standards on a per gallon basis must submit quarterly reports for every batch of reformulated gasoline and RBOB produced, as specified in § 80.75(a), and the end of year statement indicated in §…
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Why are credits and allotments expressed in ppm-gallons and not in ppmbarrels, since barrels or thousand barrels are the commercial units used by refiners?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Consistent with the requirements under the RFG program, § 80.195(a)(2) provides that, for purposes of sulfur compliance and reporting, volumes are expressed in gallons. Accordingly, credits and allotments are required to be calculated and reported in units of…
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What test requirements exist for determination of the sulfur content of denatured ethanol? What test method must be used to determine the sulfur content of ethanol? In the absence of an approved test method, what guidance can the Agency provide fuel ethan
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations do not require an ethanol blender, producer or supplier to test ethanol for sulfur content. The regulations do prohibit blending denatured ethanol into gasoline if the sulfur content of the denatured ethanol exceeds 30 ppm. See…
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We assume that a terminal operator who stores gasoline for a terminalling customer is responsible for receiving transfer documentation on RFG and conventional gas moved into the terminal for the customer. The terminal then records and stores copies of the
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes.(9/12/94) This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November 10, 1997 (PDF) (333 pp, 18.17 MB, EPA420-R-03-009, July 2003, About PDF )
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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…
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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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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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A terminal provides gasoline to a truck at the terminal?s truck rack at the same time the terminal is receiving gasoline into the same storage tank that is supplying the truck. The gasoline already in the terminal?s storage tank is properly classified as
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the regulation, the terminal must obtain a representative sample of gasoline from the storage tank and test it for sulfur content after receipt of the new load of gasoline into the terminal tank in order to continue…
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What PTD language is required for gasoline that includes both GPA gasoline and S-RGAS, where the S-RGAS has a higher downstream sulfur standard than the GPA gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.219(c)(ii) provides that all parties in the distribution system are prohibited from commingling GPA gasoline with gasoline not designated as GPA gasoline unless the mixture is classified as GPA gasoline. As a result, for a mixture of…
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