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How do I find a listing of all obligated parties pertaining to the new RFS2 Program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Review the Fuels Programs Registrants list located at https://cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-otaq-reg-II/action/reportExternal/Part80FuelsProgramslist . Any party registered as an importer or refiner for either the gasoline or diesel programs may be an obligated party in any given compliance year.
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Will EPA allow the electronic storage of records?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, so long as reasonable access and audit controls are in place. 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)…
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Can 2009 Cellulosic Biomass ethanol RINs (with a D code of 1) be used to satisfy an obligated party?s Cellulosic Biofuel and/or Advanced Biofuel RVO in 2010? Is there a 20% rollover cap on this type of RIN being used to satisfy the Cellulosic and/or Advan
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . 2009 cellulosic biomass ethanol RINs with a D code of 1 that are not used for compliance purposes in 2009 can be used to meet the cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel RVOs in 2010. The…
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What happens if a party registers with EPA then engages in no activities that must be reported during a given compliance period?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no obligation to report if no activity occurs. 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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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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Are palm oil plantations considered agricultural land or tree plantations under RFS2?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Palm oil trees are planted and managed for the purpose of harvesting palm fruit and not for harvesting the trees themselves, in the same way that a fruit orchard is planted and managed to yield fruit and not…
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Can ethanol produced from sugarcane molasses through a fermentation process in a mixed sugar/ethanol mill generate D-Code 5 RINs under the existing pathway in Table 1 to §80.1426 for ethanol produced from sugarcane through the fermentation process?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, ethanol produced from sugarcane molasses through the fermentation process can generate D-Code 5 RINs under the RFS program. There are generally three types of sugarcane ethanol production mills: (1) Dedicated mills using all the sugarcane juice to…
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What are the RFS2 requirements for renewable fuel producers to track soy feedstocks?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Since soy is considered a planted crop for purposes of RFS2, producers of renewable fuel made from soy grown on U.S. agricultural lands are covered by the aggregate compliance approach in §80.1454(g). Those producers using domestic soy need…
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I understand under CAA Section 211(o), compliance can be deferred for a year as long as the obligated party complies the next year. How does one petition for a one-year deferral? What criteria are considered?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . According to §80.1427(b), an obligated party may carry a deficit from one compliance year to the next under certain conditions. No petition for a deficit carryover is required. An obligated party will be presumed to be carrying over…
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Are engineering drawings and process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) required to be submitted as part of the engineering report?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Engineering drawings or P&IDs are not required to be submitted in the engineering report, but EPA suggests the third party engineer provide a simple diagram to help supplement the description of the process train for each renewable fuel…
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What is the final form of the batch identification number?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A batch ID is made up of the 4 digit company ID, 5 digit facility ID, 2 digit reporting year, and the 6 digit batch number (e.g., CCCC-FFFFF-YY-BBBBBB).(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of…
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Where should registrations and reports be sent?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Attn: REFGAS (6406J) 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20460 (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 through November…
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Do you have any updates on the status of EPA’s modeling of palm oil biodiesel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA is actively continuing its FRM evaluation of biodiesel produced from palm oil. We expect to complete that analysis within approximately 6 months, as stated in the preamble to the final rule. All currently available documents including meeting…
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Regulation Section 80.1131(b)(4) states that, in the event that the same RIN is transferred to two or more parties, ?all such RINs will be deemed to be invalid, unless EPA in its sole discretion determines that some portion of these RINS is valid?. What?s
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In many circumstances, EPA will be able to determine whether any of the RINs (or particular gallon-RINs within a batch-RIN) are valid from the information submitted to EPA in the RIN generation and transaction reports. Through these reports…
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When reporting compliance parameters to EPA on the batch reports we are asked to report to a greater degree of precision than the regulations indicate for the standard. An example would be that the per-gallon oxygen content standard is supposed to be 2.0
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . You would be in compliance for the example described above. In order to determine compliance EPA will round all values to the appropriate decimal place for the applicable standard. If the digit immediately to the right of the…
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