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• What is the definition of “overburdened community” that is relevant for EPA Actions and Promising Practices?

  EPA Actions and Promising Practices apply the description of overburdened communities articulated in EPA’s Plan EJ 2014. The term is used to describe the minority, low‐income, tribal and indigenous populations or communities in the United States that potentially experience disproportionate environmental harms and risks due to exposures or cumulative impacts…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• How will an EPA regional office determine whether a permitted activity impacts a potential overburdened community? What screening tool or process will EPA regional offices use to screen permit applications?

  The Agency has developed a nationally consistent screening tool to help identify communities that are potentially overburdened. This tool, known as EJSCREEN, is one of several tools being developed under Plan EJ 2014. EPA anticipates that its regional offices will use EJSCREEN and other readily available information, including known community…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• Some of the Promising Practices are mentioned in EPA regulations, guidance and recommendations that EPA has issued in the past. So why is EPA issuing the Promising Practices?

  EPA is issuing Promising Practices to encourage permit applicants to strategically plan and conduct enhanced outreach to overburdened communities in the permitting process. As some commenters noted, EPA has recommended some of the outreach strategies included in Promising Practices previously. Nevertheless, EPA believes that it is important to issue Promising…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• Is it required that the professional engineer conducting the engineering review must be licensed in the state in which the renewable fuel facility is located?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The licensed professional engineer should comply with the state laws where the renewable fuel facility is located to determine whether or not their license allows them to conduct business in that state.

  • Last published: July 23, 2024

• I have not 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…

  • Last published: July 23, 2024

• May I generate RINs that I produced and sold for non-road use in the past so that I can reinstate those RINs under RFS2?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.1426(c)(2) provides that RINs are assigned to a volume of renewable fuel when ownership of the RIN is transferred along with ownership of the volume of renewable fuel. A comparable provision appear in the RFS1 regulations, at…

  • Last published: July 23, 2024

• Do I have to register to use CDX and is this a separate registration process?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . You will have to register with CDX. (Registering with CDX is not the same as registering under regulation Section 80.1150.) Instructions are available via our Reporting for Fuel Programs web site. Question and Answer was originally posted at…

  • Last published: July 24, 2024

• How will the volume of corn ethanol produced above the grandfathering threshold be treated?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For grandfathered facilities, only the baseline volumes are exempt from the 20 percent GHG reduction requirement Thus, RINs may be generated for baseline volumes of fuel regardless of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions performance. Volumes of fuel produced above…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Was Jatropha analyzed for this final rule and, if so, what D-code applies?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The GHG emissions performance of a Jatropha-based pathway was not analyzed for the final rule because sufficient information was not available. Since EPA has not yet assigned a D code for this pathway, a producer cannot generate RINs…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Do grandfathered facilities have an additional 6 months to submit their engineering reviews to EPA?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. In the preamble to the final RFS2 regulations at 75 Fed. Regs. 14709 (March 26, 2010), EPA stated that, in an effort to reduce demand on engineering resources in the interim between promulgation of the rule and…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• May records, regardless of whether they are paper or electronic, be stored off-site?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Refiners, oxygenate blenders and importers must indicate where records will be kept on all facility registrations.(7/1/94) This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• What is meant by "grandfathered" fuel?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the RFS2 regulations, renewable fuel produced from facilities that commenced construction before December 19, 2007 and which completed construction within 36 months without an 18 month hiatus in construction and thereby exempt from the minimum 20% GHG…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Is the licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review required to perform the site visit in person, or can they delegate the site visit to another person who maybe assisting them in the engineering review?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Pursuant to §80.1450(b)(2), all verifications must be performed by the licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review. This requirement includes conducting the site visits. The licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review must perform the site visits to…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Under what conditions might a renewable fuel produced under an approved pathway in the RFS regulations qualify for use in Navy applications?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Background: The U.S. Navy is seeking to blend biofuels with fossil-based fuels, such as F-76 fuel, which are often used in Navy marine vessels. The Navy asked EPA for guidance on whether such biofuels would be treated as…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• While there is no renewable fuel obligation under the RFS2 program for the production or importation of conventional jet fuel, RINs can be generated for renewable jet fuel. Is that right?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As described in 80.1407, only gasoline and diesel fuels produced or imported into the U.S. are subject to the renewable fuel standards. Thus, only gasoline and diesel fuel volumes produced or imported by an obligated party factor into…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024