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Do batch numbers have to be sequential? Do they have to correspond to the month that they represent (i.e. 1 - 12)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Batch numbers need not be sequential and need not represent a full month. They need only be unique within a calendar year. Each producer or importer of renewable fuel can define a batch in whatever way it chooses…
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If an ethanol producer imports a truckload of gasoline, they are an obligated party and have an RVO. Does this mean that they can separate RINs from all the ethanol they produce?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Not necessarily. Obligated parties can only separate RINs they generated for renewable fuel they produced or imported up to the level of their RVO. They are not allowed to separate additional RINs that they generated. However, obligated parties…
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Could a refiner rely upon transfer documents produced by a pipeline to meet the refiners (i.e., shipper's) responsibility as it relates to the generation of transfer documents and would such a document provide an adequate defense for the refiner?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If a refiner is the transferor to a pipeline, then the refiner would be responsible to provide documentation to the pipeline.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers…
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Which non-obligated parties are allowed to participate in the credit trading program? Producers (with extra value RINs), oxygenate blenders, marketers?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Anyone can participate in the RIN trading program, subject to the requirement that the party first register with the EPA and then adhere to other regulatory requirements, including submitting required reports (such as quarterly reports on RINs held)…
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Who is required to register for the Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-dumping Program?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners and importers of conventional gasoline, reformulated gasoline or RBOB and oxygenate blenders producing reformulated gasoline by blending RBOB with oxygenates must register with EPA prior to producing or importing such products. Independent laboratories must register prior to…
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What is the responsibility of the independent lab in determining whether a tank of RFG meets the definition of "batch," i.e., is homogeneous with regard to the RFG properties?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The independent sampling and testing provisions require the independent lab to collect a separate sample from each batch of RFG. "Batch of reformulated gasoline" is defined at § 80.2(gg) as "a quantity of reformulated gasoline which is homogeneous…
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Do you have any updates on the status of EPA’s modeling of palm oil biodiesel?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA is actively continuing its FRM evaluation of biodiesel produced from palm oil. We expect to complete that analysis within approximately 6 months, as stated in the preamble to the final rule. All currently available documents including meeting…
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Will each compartment of a truck loaded at the rack at the refinery be deemed a different batch of reformulated gasoline and thus need a batch identification number? Could the invoice number serve as the unique identification number for that shipment?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In the case of reformulated gasoline produced by adding oxygenate to RBOB in a truck, each truck compartment is a separate batch of reformulated gasoline. If the oxygen standard is being met on average, the reformulated gasoline in…
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We are a wholesaler of E100 and B100. We do not do any blending. We purchase and sell E100 and B100 and sell it to anyone who needs it. What in the RIN code must be changed to document the change of ownership?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Nothing changes in the RIN code to document a change of ownership. Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (PDF) (55 pp, 221 K, EPA420-F-07-041a, August 2007, About PDF…
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I will be making ethanol from both cellulosic feedstocks and corn in my plant. How do I know what Equivalence Value to use, and how do I assign RINs to batches?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There are two possible ways to address this situation. If the volume of each type of ethanol can be measured independently and precisely (for example, in a facility where the conversion of cellulosic feedstocks to ethanol occurs through…
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Will oversight programs and paper trail need to extend to conventional gasoline in order to comply with anti-dumping?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The requirements of the anti-dumping program apply only to refiners and importers. As a result, there are no downstream standards or requirements for conventional gasoline, other than those related to the prohibitions against using conventional gasoline in RFG…
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Under "Business Activities" on the Company Details CDX web page, what does "Small Blender" mean?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The small blender business activity is in relation to §80.1440: "What are the provisions for blenders who handle and blend less than 125,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year?" The small blender business activity entry is for those…
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Can anyone own RINs and participate in the RIN market?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no restriction on who may own RINs. Anyone can own RINs, including private citizens. However, parties who own or intend to own RINs must register with us under 80.1150(c) and recordkeeping, reporting and attest engagement requirements…
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Regarding a batch for which the blend completion date is on the last day of the EPA reporting quarter, what if shipments, as EPA defines them, are not complete by the time reporting for that quarter is required? Is there going to be any facility to allow
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Sections 80.65(c) and 80.101(d)(1) require refiners to include in compliance calculations each batch of gasoline that is "produced." As a result, a batch of gasoline should be included in the averaging period when the batch is produced, rather…
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Regulation Section 80.1131(b)(4) states that, in the event that the same RIN is transferred to two or more parties, ?all such RINs will be deemed to be invalid, unless EPA in its sole discretion determines that some portion of these RINS is valid?. What?s
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In many circumstances, EPA will be able to determine whether any of the RINs (or particular gallon-RINs within a batch-RIN) are valid from the information submitted to EPA in the RIN generation and transaction reports. Through these reports…
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