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All RadNet drinking water sampling results are available on the RadNet Envirofacts website. For more information, visit RadNet. Return to Frequent Questions About RadNet.
Samples of precipitation such as rain, snow or sleet are collected at more than 25 stations across the U.S. Samples are collected using specially designed precipitation collection devices which funnel the precipitation into a bucket for transfer to a shipping container. EPA’s National Analytical Radiation Environmental Laboratory (NAREL) receives the…
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 the…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Refer to the response to Question 3.3. Each party that owns assigned or unassigned RINs, including an ethanol or biodiesel production plant, is required only to keep records of and report transfers of ownership of those RINs its receives…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. No, the K code is not changed as the result of a spill. (Refer to section 80.1132 of the regulation regarding retirement of RINs due to a spill.) Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on…
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 that…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Each producer of renewable fuel is responsible for generating the RINs that represent that renewable fuel. This function cannot be delegated or assigned to any other party, including a party to whom a producer sells its product. Question and…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. In the context of generating RINs and specifying the BBBBB code, producers and importers have the option to define a batch as being comprised of several discreet shipments within a calendar month, so long as the total number…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. If a volume of renewable fuel for which RINs have been generated is found to not be a valid renewable fuel under the RFS program, then the associated RINs are likewise deemed invalid. See regulation Section 80.1131. If a…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Yes. The facility ID number is used to generate the RIN, but the RIN can be separated and used for compliance on a company-wide aggregate basis, subject to any applicable restrictions in the regulations such as regulation Sections 80.1106(c)…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The blender must submit quarterly RIN transaction reports to EPA that will document all RIN transactions, including RIN purchases, RIN sales, and expired RINs. RINs that are reported purchased and thereafter are not sold will be identifiable through these…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Being registered for the RFS program does not mean that a party must receive RINs with the renewable fuel they purchase. Being registered for the RFS program means that a party is eligible under the regulations to receive RINs…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. Because the difference between the five-digit and seven-digit factors is extremely small, regulated parties may find that it makes no practical difference whether they use the shorter factor for batches of a certain size . If it makes no…
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help. The RINS should not be split between ethanol and denaturant. Section 80.1153(a) of the RFS rule refers to "the volume of renewable fuel that is being transferred" as necessary information for PTDs. Denatured ethanol is the "renewable fuel" in…
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 that…