Fuels and Fuel Additives
Renewable Fuels: EPA Moderated Transaction System (EMTS)
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EMTS
Getting Started
- EMTS Quick Start (10 minutes, August 2011)
- Updated EMTS Overview (15 minutes, April 2010)
- Registering a New CDX User (5 minutes, August 2011)
- DC Fuels Registration Tutorial (10 minutes, October 2011)
- Adding the EMTS Application in CDX (7 minutes, August 2011)
- Relationships between users, organizations, and facilities (7 minutes, May 2010)
RIN Transactions
- Managing Trades (8 minutes, January 2010)
- Generate RIN Transactions (10 minutes, November 2009)
- Separate RIN Transactions (6 minutes, December 2009)
- Retire RIN Transactions (9 minutes, January 2010)
- Buy and Sell Transactions (13 minutes, January 2010)
- Advanced RIN Selection (8 minutes, February 2010)
- Biofuel Waiver Credits (9 minutes, July 26 2012)
Managing RINs
- Managing RIN Holdings (8 minutes, November 2009)
- Managing the Blocked List (9 minutes, July 2010)
- Locking RINs (5 minutes, January 2011)
Submissions
- Submitting XML through the EMTS Website (9 minutes, April 2010)
- Viewing QA Results (8 minutes, July 2010)
- Managing the Transaction Bin and Viewing Web Submissions (6 minutes, January 2010)
Reports and Notifications
- Quarterly Reports (6 minutes, October 2010)
- Annual Compliance (12 minutes, January 2012)
- Transaction Error Report (9 minutes, January 2011)
- Managing Subscriptions (8 minutes, January 2011)
- Unified Reporting Form (15 minutes, October 2012)
- Production Outlook Report (10 minutes, November 2012)
Conversion Tool
- EMTS Conversion Tool (Advanced): Custom Column Headings in Excel (9 minutes, March 2010)
- EMTS Conversion Tool (Advanced): Delimited Text Files (7 minutes, March 2010)
- EMTS Conversion Tool: Build a File (6 minutes, March 2010)
- EMTS Conversion Tool: Basic Version (8 minutes, March 2010)
Quality Assurance Plan (QAP)
- EMTS QAP Overview (7 minutes, March 2013)
How to View
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