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Rainwater in containment system of SPCC regulated farm
What do I do with rainwater that accumulates in my containment system for a farm regulated by the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule? Check the rainwater for any oil, and if no oil is present, this can be released. If there is oil in the water, this water…
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To whom does the 20% limit on previous year RINs apply?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . This limit applies only to obligated parties. Under regulation Section 80.1127(a)(2), no more than 20% of the gallon-RINs used by an obligated party to meet its RVO can be previous-year RINs (having a YYYY code that is one…
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The final rule on page 23909 (Federal Register, volume 72) states that any non-obligated party that takes ownership of the renewable fuel with RINs will be required to transfer those RINs with a volume of renewable fuel. Does this refer to oxygenate blend
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, as long as the blender actually blends the renewable fuel into gasoline or diesel. In that case, the blender would be required to separate the assigned RINs from the blended renewable fuel, and could then transfer the…
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Will non-obligated parties in possession of RINs create a RIN shortage?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The in-use production volumes of renewable fuel are expected to exceed the requirements of the RFS program by a substantial margin. As a result, we expect there to be a surplus of RINs for at least the first…
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Will non-obligated parties that can hold title to RINs be required to balance them each quarter?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Every party that owns assigned RINs must comply with the end-of-quarter check described in regulation Section 80.1128(b)(5). This provision ensures that RINs must be transferred with renewable fuel as renewable fuel moves through the distribution system. However, this…
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Does regulation Section 80.1128(a)(4) allow a marketer to change the K code from 1 to 2 and then not transfer the RIN with the renewable fuel as long as he sells the RINs to anyone by the end of the quarter?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Marketers who buy and sell renewable fuel without blending it into gasoline or diesel cannot separate RINs from volumes, and thus cannot change the K code from 1 to 2. All conditions under which a party can separate…
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It appears we are creating an automatic non-compliance period for September, 2007. If I own ethanol on September 1, 2007, it will not have assigned RINs. As an obligated party, I will be blending this ethanol into gasoline at my terminal, but I won't be g
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . It may be the case that some ethanol blended into gasoline at the beginning of the program will not have assigned RINs. However, the RVO is determined annually, not quarterly or monthly, and in general ethanol purchased after…
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A refinery can produce non-ester renewable diesel by processing renewable feedstock through a distillate hydrotreater. In this situation, the refinery must assign RINs based on the feed volume. I assume the refinery can follow the rules for defining a bat
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. However, it is the total number of gallon-RINs, not the total volume, that must be less than 100 million. See regulation Section 80.1126(c). Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel…
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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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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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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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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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If you have a spill, does the K code change to 2 for the spilled volume?
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…
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