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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…
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EPA has stated that product codes would satisfy the product transfer documentation requirements if each downstream party is given the information necessary to know the meaning of the product codes. Please explain how this should be done.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA believes that parties normally are able to meet the product transfer requirements by including the required information in the documents that the parties currently use to memorialize the transfer of title or custody of the gasoline. Therefore…
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A tank of ethanol has become contaminated and must be disposed of. How would we treat this situation for RIN reporting under the RFS program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The RFS regulation envisions various scenarios under which RINs might be retired. The reporting section in the regulation names a few examples: retirement in satisfaction of enforcement action, spill, and use in a boiler or heater. We recognize…
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Can exports of high olefins, high benzene, and/or nil oxygen gasolines from the U.S. generate credits for the exporter?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. Section 80.67(g)(6) provides that oxygen and benzene credits are generated if the actual total for the oxygen standard is greater than the compliance total, or if the actual total for the benzene standard is less than the…
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Clarify that the proper version of the Complex Model that is to be used with an augmentation is the version that was in effect at the time the augmentation was approved. The preamble and regulations are inconsistent on this issue, and confusion arises in
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The proper version of the Complex Model that is to be used with an augmentation is the version that was in effect at the time the augmentation was approved.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List…
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Can conventional gasoline be used for off-road applications in an RFG area?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. Only reformulated gasoline may be sold or supplied in a covered area.(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)…
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The batch report requires reporting the volume percent for six oxygenates -methanol, MTBE, ethanol, ETBE, TAME and t-butanol. If a refiner or oxygenate blender uses MTBE or ethanol as an oxygenate, and does not include in its calculation of oxygen weight
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Trace amounts of oxygenates that may be present in MTBE or ethanol do not have to be reported. However, where a refiner reports total oxygen weight percent that includes MTBE or ethanol plus other oxygenates in larger than…
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Will EPA consider widening the limits on distillation?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The range of data on which the Complex Model was based limits the range within which the model will exhibit appropriate accuracy. The E200 range in the database was 33 to 66 vol%; extrapolation widened this range to…
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§ 80.101(i)(1) says that conventional gasoline cannot leave a refinery until testing is completed for all parameters used in the compliance calculation. (e)(2) of the same section says that for purposes of meeting (e)(1) a refiner may composite samples a
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations have been revised at § 80.101(i)(1) to allow conventional gasoline to leave a refinery or importer facility prior to the completion of sample testing. Note that there are additional constraints related to composite samples at §…
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Will the EPA "Spreadsheet" be revised to be considered acceptable for fuel certifications?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The spreadsheet was designed to provide assistance in understanding and implementing the Complex Model equations as provided in the regulations. The EPA has no authority to endorse the spreadsheet as a legal instrument of certification. Only the…
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What metering system does the plant use to measure gallons? Is it a production meter, a load-out meter, etc.?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA regulations provide flexibility in terms of the specific mechanisms through which producers and importers measure volumes for purposes of generating RINs. However, the approach should ensure that gallons are neither systematically ignored nor systematically double-counted. Also, approaches…
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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…
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Who reports expired RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Every party must report RINs owned that have expired as of the end of the fourth quarter of each year. This report is due on February 28 of the following year and will identify RINs that expired in…
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Can a gallon of ethanol generate more than 1.0 RIN in RFS2?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The number of RINs that can be generated for each gallon of renewable fuel are determined by the Equivalence Values. See 80.1415 and 80.1426(f)(2)-(6). Equivalence Values are based on energy content in the renewable fuel in comparison to…
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With respect to section 80.65(a), would there be any violation by the terminal located in an RFG covered area selling only conventional gasoline to stations in attainment areas?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. However, the terminal should take extra precautions to ensure that no conventional gasoline is distributed to a RFG area. See the discussion in the Prohibitions and Liabilities Section.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List…
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