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Purpose of Oil Pollution Prevention regulation
What is the purpose of the Oil Pollution Prevention regulation? When oil spills into navigable waters or onto adjoining shorelines, it can have harmful impacts on the environment, human health, and economic activity. EPA issued the Oil Pollution Prevention regulation to prevent oil spills and to assure that oil facility…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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In filing company and facility registrations, if a parent corporation has several subsidiary corporations it desires to register and report to EPA under one company ID number, would it be permissible to register all of the facilities operated by the subsi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In this situation the parent corporation should register for a company ID # and facilities operated by the subsidiary corporations should be registered as separate facilities but under the parent corporation's company ID #.(8/29/94) This question and answer…
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If my fuel is already registered with the Fuels and Fuel Additives program under 40 CFR Part 79, do I still need to register with the RFS2 program under 40 CFR Part 80?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Even if your fuel or fuel additive is already registered under 40 CFR Part 79, there are additional registration requirements for parties regulated under the RFS2 program, as specified in 40 CFR 80.1450.
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On the registration forms it seems you are forced to check only one primary activity (refiner, oxygenate blender, importer, or independent lab). Do you submit two forms if you are both a refiner and importer?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The final forms have been changed to register each company once for all applicable activities. As before, each facility will be registered separately for each activity that is undertaken at the facility. Import facilities need not be…
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What are the recordkeeping requirements for a renewable fuel producer that uses used cooking oils and fats as feedstocks for renewable fuel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Renewable fuel producers using used cooking oils or animal wastes as feedstocks are required under 40 CFR 80.1454(d)(3) to obtain from their feedstock supplier, and maintain in their records, documents which certify that the feedstock meets the definition…
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Under "Business Activities" on the Company Details CDX web page, what does "Small Blender" mean?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The small blender business activity is in relation to §80.1440: "What are the provisions for blenders who handle and blend less than 125,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year?" The small blender business activity entry is for those…
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How will engineering reports be treated in terms of public access and CBI? Will there be web access for submitted reports?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will process any public requests for engineering reports on a case-by-case basis and there will be no general web access to the engineering reports. Engineering reports, or portions thereof, for which the submitter asserts a confidential business…
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80.1450 refers to a Fuel Supply Plan. Is this referring to the fuel used for process energy? If not, what is it referring to? If yes, by "source" do you mean the name of the supplier? The regulations ask for the locations from which the process energy fue
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The Fuel Supply Plan referred to in 80.1450(b)(3) refers to fuel used at a renewable fuel production facility to generate process energy. "Source" means the name of the supplier of that fuel. Since 80.1450(b)(1)(iv) asks for the locations…
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What materials from non-federal forestlands meet the definition of renewable biomass in RFS?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Slash and pre-commercial thinnings from non-federal forestland that is not ecologically sensitive forestland qualify as renewable biomass for purposes of RFS. Slash is defined in 40 CFR 80.1401 as the residue, including treetops, branches and bark, left on…
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May a company have multiple designations?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . That is, may a company register as a refiner, an importer, a blender, and a marketer since aspects of our business cover all designations? Does each company have a designation, or can a company choose a designation. As…
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How does the "active management" requirement in the definition of renewable biomass apply to land that changes status in the future?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In RFS2, EPA has interpreted the EISA requirement that existing agricultural land be "cleared or cultivated at any time prior to [December 19, 2007] and actively managed or fallow and nonforested" to apply to land that existed as…
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If a party registers a facility as a refinery, oxygenate blending facility or import facility and then does not produce or import gasoline at that facility during an averaging period, must the party report to EPA?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners, importers, and oxygenate blenders are required to report to EPA only during averaging periods when the party produces or imports some volume of gasoline, even if the party has previously registered with EPA.(9/26/94) This question and answer…
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