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May import facilities be grouped together for compliance and reporting purposes?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For the most part, separate import facilities owned by one importer must be grouped together. All compliance demonstrations are to be made based on the aggregate of all gasoline imported into the United States by an importer. This…
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Must a refiner identify a single independent lab for each refinery?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Although an independent lab may use a substitute lab for certain tasks, a refiner is required to name a single independent lab for each refinery. It is this independent lab with which EPA will communicate regarding the…
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It is our understanding that the conventional gasoline message for product transfer documents "this product does not meet the requirements for reformulated gasoline.." is intended to prevent the sale or use of conventional gasoline in reformulated gasolin
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The language regarding conventional gasoline specified at § 80.106(a)(1)(vii) must be included in the product transfer documentation for all transfers of conventional gasolines, and this specific language requirement may not be satisfied through the use of product codes…
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May RFG that is found to be off-spec downstream of the refinery or import facility be corrected by blending "clean" non-oxygenate blendstocks?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Any party who combines blendstocks other than oxygenate with RFG is producing gasoline, and must meet all the RFG standards and requirements applicable to a refiner. In addition, all applicable RFG standards must be met by the blendstock…
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Must refiners defer to regulatory references to blendstock produced on a batch basis, as all blendstocks made by refiners are produced from continuous processes (even purchased blendstocks are received at regular intervals and are typically blended on a f
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Even continuous streams are only measured periodically and it would be best to apply the measurements to the volume produced most closely to the time of the measurement. In other words, break up the continuous stream into…
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If a purchased lot of certified RFG is combined with another lot of fungible certified RFG in a terminal, and a portion of the mixture is then sold to a third party, what form would the product transfer documentation take? Would it be necessary to convey
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no specific form or required format for the produce transfer document (PTD) information. It should be included on the documents used to memorialize the transfer of the fuel and should reflect the amount and type of…
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If a refiner produces only conventional gasoline, what is the purpose of the added burden of testing, auditing, documentation, and general compliance requirements? Since there is only conventional gasoline produced, there can be no dumping. Also, if the E
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The Clean Air Act requires that all conventional gasoline on average be at least as clean as it was in 1990 regardless of who produces the conventional gasoline. Therefore, all refiners and importers are subject to requirements that…
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May a refiner use the same independent lab to satisfy the RFG independent sampling and testing requirements and to conduct sampling and testing needs that are unrelated to the RFG requirements (e.g., internal quality assurance or custody transfer sampling
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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Are independent labs required to report to EPA, the refiner, or both? What are the reporting requirements for independent labs in the case an independent lab's analysis shows gasoline does not meet relevant RFG standards?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.65(f)(3)(iii) refiners and importers are required to have their independent labs report directly to EPA on a quarterly basis. There is no requirement that independent labs must report to the refiner or importer for whom they…
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A refiner elects to meet a RFG specification via the "averaging" method. Two-thirds of the way through the averaging period, his tracking of cumulative qualities shows he is just meeting the standard. For the remaining last third of the averaging period t
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.80(c) provides that the refiner would be liable for a daily penalty over the entire averaging period. Refiners, for each refinery, and importers, must elect to comply with each standard on a per-gallon or average basis at…
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Are distributors who deliver conventional gasoline to retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers in non-RFG areas required to fulfill the PTD requirements, including the statement in § 80.106(a)(1)(vii)? Do retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers in
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The PTD requirements of § 80.106 apply to all distributors of conventional gasoline. However, because the PTD requirements are of little value concerning the delivery of conventional gasoline to a retailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer (or smaller purchaser with…
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At an in-line blending facility, a portion of batch A is captured in an empty storage tank and not immediately shipped. Then a portion of batch C is added to that tank and the combined mixture is shipped. How do the records show compliance with reformulat
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Batches A and C will be certified separately based on the results from the composite sample analyses for each of these batches (unless EPA has approved another method of sampling for a particular refiner). Since product transfer documents…
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How does PBATMA (40 CFR 80.47) apply to refiners and importers of “California gasoline” subject to the enforcement exemptions of 40 CFR 80.81?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners and importers of California gasoline that is subject to the enforcement exemptions of 40 CFR §80.81 may continue to use sampling and testing methodologies as described in paragraph §80.81(h).
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A refinery has two product tanks in series; a 10,000 gallon tank in which blendstocks are combined to produce gasoline (a blend tank), followed by a 50,000 gallon tank which feeds directly to the rack. Customers pull product from the rack. There are no bl
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The refiner should certify the properties of each batch produced in the 10,000 gallon blend tank based on a sample of gasoline collected after all the blending components have been added and mixed. The volume of each batch…
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Confirm that the attester will designate what is required to turn over a tank from one service to another, and how the barrels should be counted; i.e., from RBOB to conventional, or 3.5 wt% RBOB to 2.7 wt% RBOB.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The attester will not designate products for the party subject to the attestation engagement requirement. The function of the attestation engagement is to provide an independent analysis of the designations made by the regulated party. The designation of…
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