June 2022 Alternative RFS Compliance Demonstration Approach for Certain Small Refineries

Summary

On June 3, 2022, EPA announced the denial of 69 petitions for small refinery exemptions (SRE) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. This denial action included a subset of three SRE petitions for the 2016 and 2017 compliance years that EPA had previously granted, but that were remanded to the Agency by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after the original grants were challenged. Due to extenuating circumstances, EPA has supplemented its “April 2022 Alternative RFS Compliance Demonstration Approach for Certain Small Refineries” to include these three additional SRE petitions, providing the small refineries that submitted them with an alternative approach to demonstrating compliance with their 2016 and 2017 RFS obligations created by the Agency’s separate and concurrent action, the June 2022 Denial of Petitions for RFS Small Refinery Exemptions.

This decision is a final Agency action.

Additional Resources

• Notice of June 2022 Alternative Compliance Demonstration Approach for Certain Small Refineries Under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (pdf) (published June 8, 2022)
• June 2022 Alternative RFS Compliance Demonstration Approach for Certain Small Refineries (pdf) (June 2022, EPA-420-R-22-012)
• June 2022 Denial of Petitions for RFS Small Refinery Exemptions
• April 2022 Alternative RFS Compliance Demonstration Approach for Certain Small Refineries