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EPA has stated that RFG imports must be tested and certified before off-loading a marine vessel. Must this certification occur while the vessel is docked, or may it occur while the vessel is at anchor? If a vessel is certified while at anchor, may the gas
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Imported gasoline normally must be certified while the gasoline is on board the marine vessel used to transport the gasoline to the United States, and the certification sampling must be performed subsequent to the vessel's arrival in the…
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A company wishes to blend RFG containing ethanol with RFG containing an ether, such as MTBE. May this blending occur during the VOC-controlled season? During the non-VOC-controlled season?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.78(a)(8), and as explained in the answer to Prohibitions Question 1 in the September 26, 1994 Question and Answer Document, RFG may not contain a mixture of ethanol and any other oxygenate during the VOC control…
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Regarding the requirement in § 80.69(a)(2) that refiners and importers blend a representative sample of an RBOB batch with refinery-specified oxygenate, the composition of specified oxygenate blended in the laboratory is likely to differ from the composi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will not consider the refiner's blending instructions to be compromised where the specified oxygenate contains de minimis amounts of other oxygenates resulting in the RFG produced to contain other oxygenates in amounts no more than: 0.4 vol%…
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For a conventional gasoline refiner that has oxygenate added downstream of the refinery, what sampling frequency and test methods must be used?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . For a refiner of blending stock to include in its compliance calculations the oxygenate used in blending conventional gasoline where the downstream blending was conducted by a person other than the refiner, § 80.101(d)(4)(ii)(B)(2) requires (among other things)…
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Section 80.101(d)(3) states that "Any refiner for each refinery, or any importer, shall include in its compliance calculations. . . any gasoline blending stock produced or imported during the averaging period which becomes conventional gasoline solely upo
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.101(d)(3), the refiner or importer must include in its compliance calculations the volume of gasoline blending stock that was used in the production of conventional gasoline produced solely upon the addition of oxygenate, and not the…
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For purposes of RFG compliance on average, can refiners treat closely integrated facilities operating in a single covered area as a single facility, or must compliance be achieved separately for each facility? Suppose the refinery operation consists of mi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.67(b)(1), refiners must meet all applicable averaged standards separately for each of the refiner's refineries (i.e., for each facility at which gasoline is produced.) This would include terminals at which RFG is produced through a blending…
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Please clarify and resolve the significant digit differences existing between the standard and enforcement tolerance specified, i.e. 8.3 psi RVP with a 0.30 psi enforcement tolerance.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The significant digit differences between the RVP standard and the enforcement tolerance arise from EPA's desire to resolve any questions about rounding of RVP measurements when an enforcement tolerance has been applied. Accordingly, for example, the 0.30 psi…
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Can refiners ship RFG with an RVP result of less than 6.4 psi, but use 6.4 psi in the emission parameter calculations?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The valid range limits associated with the Complex Model are given in §80.45(f). These standards apply to every batch of RFG. Since the lower end of the valid range limit for RVP is 6.4 psi, no valid batches…
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Concerning the EPA method for total aromatics: a) Does EPA know of a source where all the components on the table in the method can be purchased? We have not been able to find one component, 1,3 diethyl benzene. Please state the manufacturer and the avail
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) EPA is using the five level calibration mixture recommended in the ASTM draft method for aromatics in gasoline. Pre-made standards for that method can be purchased from at least two vendors. The list of compounds used in…
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Are any categories of gasoline users in the RFG covered areas exempt from the requirement to use RFG instead of conventional gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 211(k)(5) of the Clean Air Act describes the scope of the requirement to use RFG in the RFG covered areas: (5) PROHIBITION. -- Effective beginning January 1, 1995, each of the following shall be a violation of…
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Concerning the OFID test method for oxygenates:a) The method has a program run of 20 minutes, but over half the eluting peaks on the table in the method come off after 20 minutes. For example, the last oxygenate present on the table elutes off at 38 minut
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . a) Yes (10/31/94) b) Yes.(10/31/94) c) It would generally be inappropriate to purchase prepared Calibration and Independent Standards from the same purveyor; however, if one is purchasing pristine pure compounds for the purported purpose of preparing precise standards…
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Given that the number of surveys required in later years (after 1995) will, in part, be determined by survey failures, when will EPA announce the adjusted number of required surveys for 1996 (or subsequent years)? How can a survey plan be submitted by Sep
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The survey plan will have to take into account whatever contingencies may occur. Any change in the total number of surveys which may be triggered by areas "passing" or "failing" surveys (see section 80.68(b)(2)(ii)) will not result in…
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For refiners that in-line blend and are exempt from the independent sampling and testing requirements, which test measurements are to be used for the certified fuel properties, the integrated readings from on-line analyzers and flow meters, spot samples,
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Generally, the results from the composite sample, tested using the methods specified in § 80.46 of the regulations, should be used. If more than one composite sample is taken during the blend and tested to determine compliance, or…
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Can a refiner blend oxygenate into purchased conventional gasoline and use the oxygenate to meet its conventional gasoline requirements as long as the oxygenate is not being counted by the producer of the gasoline? Can this blending occur at a refiner own
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.101(d)(4) provides that any oxygenate that is added to conventional gasoline, or gasoline blending stock as described in § 80.101(d)(3), may be included in the refiner's compliance calculations, "where such gasoline or gasoline blending stock is produced…
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On the island of Puerto Rico there is no opportunity for transporting a conventional gasoline to an area requiring reformulated gasoline except by ship or barge. Can the PTD and record keeping requirements downstream of the refiners and importers be elimi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. All PTD and record keeping requirements apply to the Island of Puerto Rico. The most appropriate way to comply with the PTD requirements is to include the information required by § 80.77 and § 80.106 on documents…
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