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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…

  • Last published: June 5, 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

• 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

• Do settlement communications, such as past “agreements in principle,” impact the implementation of the final Consent Decrees?

  The parties are bound by the terms of the various final, publicly available consent decrees. These consent decrees were made available for public comment before they were finalized and entered by the Court. Past settlement communications and documents created in the course of settlement discussions have been incorporated (or not)…

  • Last published: September 26, 2024

• What is the Confidentiality Order?

  The Confidentiality Order (Order) is a court order entered by the Federal District Court for the District of Montana (Court) on August 8, 2002, and amended by the Court on December 31, 2003, that applies to Superfund settlement negotiations in the Clark Fork River Basin, including the following sites: Silver…

  • Last published: September 26, 2024

• How does EPA ensure that the potentially responsible parties complete their work?

  All cleanup activities performed by the PRPs are subject to enforcement instruments (i.e., consent decrees or administrative orders) that provide for EPA approval of all deliverables and oversight of all work performed by the PRPs.

  • Last published: September 26, 2024

• If re-transmission is necessary due to fault on EPA?s part, why won?t EPA pay for re-transmission?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will take all reasonable steps to properly maintain equipment, services, and testing necessary to effectively and reliably send and receive documents via EDI. Although EPA is unable to pay for re-transmission costs, we will exercise the highest…

  • Last published: July 23, 2024

• Could we become the delegated authority for submission of reports on behalf of our members?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Individual blenders could rely on your association to submit reports to EPA on their behalf. . However you should understand that if any reports are not submitted or are submitted improperly then responsibility would fall upon the individual…

  • Last published: July 23, 2024

• Section 80.1164(a)(1)(ii) of the regulation states that the CPA conducting the attest engagement must obtain documentation of any volumes of renewable fuel used in gasoline during the reporting year; compute and report as a finding the volumes of renewabl

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . This provision is intended to require the CPA to include in his or her report any volume of renewable fuel actually used in gasoline produced at the refinery or imported by the importer, but is not intended to…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• When you make the annual designation as an importer does it apply to all of your imported gasoline, or can you designate average or per gallon compliance parameters for each import facility?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Importers must use the same per gallon or average designations for all reformulated gasoline imported each year, regardless of where that reformulated gasoline is imported.(7/1/94) This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• With regard to the record keeping requirement for test results, please clarify the document which must be kept.

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.74(a)(2)(iii) requires any regulated party who samples and tests reformulated gasoline or RBOB to maintain records containing the results of the tests. The headnotes of § 80.74 specifies that the record keeping period is five years from…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• In what form should independent laboratories report batch test results?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Independent laboratories should use the same reporting forms and EDI formats used by regulated parties for reporting on batch test results. They will not need to report designations for each batch or the results of emissions calculations.(7/1/94) This…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Are there different reporting requirements for refiners, importers and oxygenate blenders?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. See § 80.75 of the regulations.(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 10, 1997 (PDF) (333 pp, 18.17 MB, EPA420-R-03-009…

  • Last published: August 2, 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: August 2, 2024

• Should actual measured values be used for compliance calculations even when they are below those negligible limit values used in the baseline? For example, if a sulfur content of 10 ppm is measured in a batch of finished gasoline, should 10 ppm be used fo

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The measured values must be reported on the batch reports and used for compliance calculations. (4/18/95) This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through…

  • Last published: August 5, 2024