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Please confirm that a terminal can blend complying grades of gasoline to form another grade of gasoline and the terminal would not be considered to be a refiner. An example would be the blending of premium unleaded and unleaded regular to provide mid-grad
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The blending of two certified RFG gasolines to make a mid-grade gasoline is permitted provided that the segregation restraints specified in section 80.78 are not violated. The terminal or gasoline station will not be considered a refiner provided…
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Do all properties have to be analyzed on-line to get an exemption from the independent laboratory sampling and testing requirement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. However, EPA would prefer that in-line blending operations at least be capable of analyzing benzene, oxygen, and RVP on line. If the operation does not have the capability to analyze all properties on-line, the refiner must indicate…
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Our practice is for each tank to be a batch and we test that tank once even though it may be used to supply several distribution systems. If several tanks are required to make up a pipeline tender, each tank is tested separately and the separate certifica
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Moreover, EPA believes that each separate tank of produced gasoline must be a separate batch, and that gasoline produced and contained in more than one tank may not be treated as a single batch.(7/1/94) This question and…
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For areas not required to use RFG, do states have the ability to set ASTM performance specifications and any volatility allowances from those specifications for ethanol blended fuels?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Areas not required to use RFG are subject to the conventional gasoline and federal volatility regulations. States may not set ASTM performance specifications for characteristics or components that are controlled or prohibited by these federal regulations, subject to…
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At what point in the import process must shipments of imported gasoline be sampled in order to meet the RFG and anti-dumping requirements?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.65(e)(1) requires importers to determine the properties applicable to the RFG standards for each batch of imported gasoline designated as RFG prior to the gasoline leaving the import facility, by analyzing a representative sample from the batch…
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Footnote b of Table IV.C.-2 of the preamble is inconsistent with the regulations at § 80.216(f). The regulations clearly state that the corporate pool average standards do not apply if a refiner's production volume is mostly GPA gasoline. If the refiner/
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations at § 80.216(f) are correct. There was an error in footnote b of Table IV.C-2 of the preamble released on 12/21/00, which subsequently was corrected in the final rule published in the Federal Register on February…
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Can a party downstream of the refiner certify a batch of conventional gasoline as RFG if the required RFG standards are met after testing? If not, can this batch of conventional gasoline which meets RFG standards be sold to a refiner as a GTAB?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. Only refiners and importers may designate gasoline as RFG. A downstream party also may not sell conventional gasoline as gasoline-treated-as-blendstock (GTAB) even if it meets RFG standards. The concept of GTAB applies only in the limited situation…
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If a given refinery produces both reformulated and conventional gasoline, must that refinery use the same model for both?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes.(7/1/94) This question and answer was 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, July 2003, About PDF )
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Assuming that an RBOB refiner elects to use "worst case" oxygenate blending assumptions in complying with the RFG regulations, is there any special information that the product transfer documents must include other than the requirements set out in § 80.7
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, all the product transfer documentation requirements for RBOB are located in § 80.77 of the regulations.(8/29/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through…
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For those with graphical data on E200/E300, will EPA allow use of either the equation or graphical for both baseline and compliance?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Graphical approaches to calculating E200 and E300 for all fuels (i.e. both baseline and compliance fuels) can be used when curve-fitting or linear interpolation are not feasible. The conversion equations provided in the regulations can only be used…
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Can ether RFG and alcohol RFG be mixed outside the VOC season provided the substantially similar requirements are not violated.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . VOC-controlled RFG produced with ethanol cannot be mixed with VOC-controlled any-oxygenate RFG from January 1, through September 15 at any point in the distribution system, including at retail outlets and wholesale-purchaser consumers facilities.(7/1/94) This question and answer was…
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Does the EPA maintain a single document listing the reclassification of CO and ozone nonattainment areas?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For information pertaining to the reclassification of CO and ozone nonattainment areas, contact Valerie Broadwell (919-541-3310) or Barry Gilbert (919-541-5238) Ozone/Carbon monoxide Programs Branch, AQMD, MD-15, OAQPS, EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27711.(7/1/94) This question and answer…
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Are there any plans for laboratory certifications?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. It is the responsibility of each refiner to ensure the quality of the independent laboratory it is using.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1…
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Can ethanol produced from sugarcane molasses through a fermentation process in a mixed sugar/ethanol mill generate D-Code 5 RINs under the existing pathway in Table 1 to §80.1426 for ethanol produced from sugarcane through the fermentation process?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, ethanol produced from sugarcane molasses through the fermentation process can generate D-Code 5 RINs under the RFS program. There are generally three types of sugarcane ethanol production mills: (1) Dedicated mills using all the sugarcane juice to…
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If I have a renewable fuel that was assigned a specific Equivalence Value in regulation Section 80.1115, but I don't think that Equivalence Value is right for my product, what options do I have?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Producers or importers of renewable fuel may submit a petition to the EPA requesting a different Equivalence Value from that assigned in the regulations. However, the petition must use the calculation methodology described in regulation Section 80.1115(d). In…
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