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What business activity should producers and marketers register under?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Producers and marketers should register as RIN owners and, as appropriate as an ethanol producer/importer, biodiesel producer/importer, and under any other category that applies to them. Registration is available on-line at Registration for Fuel Programs . If a…
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We are best described as an ?intermediate feedstock processor?. We produce gasoline by processing feedstocks (that are derived from crude oil) in processing units which are the same as those used in crude oil refineries. We process less than 75,000 barrel
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. EPA's definition of "small refinery" is identical to the definition used in EPAct, as it was intended to implement the EPAct provisions. EPAct defines a small refinery as a refinery for which the average aggregate daily crude…
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In many cases, no document is created on the date that title of the renewable fuel is transferred to the purchaser, which typically is the date the purchaser receives the fuel, and an invoice typically is used by the parties to recognize the transfer of t
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations at section 80.1128(a)(7) provide that any RINs assigned to a renewable fuel must be recorded on the product transfer document used to transfer ownership of the renewable fuel volume to another party, or the RINs may…
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If a plant establishes RINs at the beginning of the month and defines it as one month's production estimate (e.g. 8 million gallons), what happens if the plant produces more than 8 million gallons by the end of the month? Does the plant then start issuing
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . RINs are not generated at the beginning of a month. Rather, gallon-RINs must have been generated by the time a volume of renewable fuel is transferred from the producer or importer to another party (at which point the…
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We would describe ourselves as an ethanol marketer, but we import gasoline into one of the 48 contiguous United States. Does this make us an obligated party and, as an obligated party, are we able to separate RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If a party is an importer of gasoline into the 48 contiguous United States, then that party is an obligated party. Section 80.1129(b)(6) allows an obligated party to separate RINs they generated from volumes of renewable fuel, if…
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How can a marketer transfer RINs with a K code of 1 and fulfill the requirement that "No person may transfer a RIN that has a K code of 1 without transferring an appropriate volume of renewable fuel to the same person on the same day" ?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A party may transfer any volume of renewable fuel to any other party without simultaneously transferring any assigned RINs to that same party. However, assigned RINs can only be transferred to another party in association with the transfer…
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The RIN is too long to fit onto my bill of lading. What are my options?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . An assigned RIN must appear in its entirety on product transfer documents (PTDs) identifying a transfer of ownership of a volume of renewable fuel. Substitute codes are not permitted. See regulation Section 80.1153. (In general PTDs would not…
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How do owners of the ethanol account for product samples taken at the plant and downstream relative to RINs? Likewise, how is standard product shrinkage (i.e. when ethanol is transferred to a terminal) handled relative to RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In general, the RINs associated with small volumes removed for sampling and testing, or lost due to evaporation, leakage, or metering imprecision, remain valid for RFS compliance purposes. Small volume losses can be accommodated through the regulatory provision…
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What would the wholesaler put on his PTDs when he transfers title to another party?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.1153 describes the requirements for PTDs, which generally include the name and address of the transferor and transferee, the company registration number of each, the volume of renewable fuel being transferred, the date of the transfer, and…
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If an oxygenate blender must transfer RINs with a volume of renewable fuel, who are they transferring to, if they are the final/end-user?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If any oxygenate blender blends renewable fuel into gasoline or diesel, he is no longer required to transfer RINs and renewable fuel together. Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard…
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Is a PTD required for transferring an unassigned RIN?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. PTDs are not required when transferring unassigned RINs. However, PTDs are required whenever there is a transfer of ownership of a renewable fuel. Where the fuel is being transferred with assigned RINs, then the PTD must include…
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Do terminals need to register?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Terminals do not need to register. However, terminals that engage in activities that require registration must be registered. For example, if the terminal takes ownership of RINs, then it must be registered as a RIN owner. Question and…
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I will be making ethanol from both cellulosic feedstocks and corn in my plant. How do I know what Equivalence Value to use, and how do I assign RINs to batches?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The batches of each type of ethanol (cellulosic or corn) should be measured independently and precisely, according to the separate processes used to produce them in the plant. Once separate batch numbers are created and RINs are generated…
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Ethanol is imported on an undenatured basis. Do we assign the RINs to the denatured volume or the undenatured volume?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Denatured. See regulation Sections 80.1101(d)(3) and 80.1115(b)(2). Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (PDF) (55 pp, 221 K, EPA420-F-07-041a, August 2007, About PDF )
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We are a producer of ethanol. If we have 10,000 gallons in inventory on September 1, 2007 and 25,000 came from our production facility A, 25,000 came from our production facility B, and the other 50,000 we own but received from various other producers, ho
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As an ethanol producer or importer, you may assign RINs to the product you own on September 1, 2007. As far as how to handle the facility identification number fields in the RIN, you will want to consistently…
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