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If a facility is grandfathered, is it also exempt from the requirement that feedstocks must be renewable biomass?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Even if a facility is exempt from the 20% GHG reduction requirement, in order to generate RINs, the facility is still required to use feedstocks that meet the definition of renewable biomass. The definition of renewable fuel in…
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Are Canadian facilities included in the grandfathering provision? Does the grandfathering provision extend to facilities that commenced production up to December 31, 2009?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The grandfathering provisions apply equally to facilities inside and outside the RFS program area. Facilities that commenced construction (as defined in §80.1403(a)(4)) prior to December 19, 2007, and which satisfy the timely construction requirements of §80.1403(c)(1) and (2)…
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Why are credits and allotments expressed in ppm-gallons and not in ppmbarrels, since barrels or thousand barrels are the commercial units used by refiners?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Consistent with the requirements under the RFG program, § 80.195(a)(2) provides that, for purposes of sulfur compliance and reporting, volumes are expressed in gallons. Accordingly, credits and allotments are required to be calculated and reported in units of…
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What test requirements exist for determination of the sulfur content of denatured ethanol? What test method must be used to determine the sulfur content of ethanol? In the absence of an approved test method, what guidance can the Agency provide fuel ethan
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations do not require an ethanol blender, producer or supplier to test ethanol for sulfur content. The regulations do prohibit blending denatured ethanol into gasoline if the sulfur content of the denatured ethanol exceeds 30 ppm. See…
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Table 1 in 80.1426 does not include a coal fired ethanol plant. If a coal fired plant can be demonstrated as "grandfathered-in," can we assume the ethanol produced will have a D code of 6?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Per 80.1403(c), all facilities (including coal-fired facilities) for which construction commenced prior to December 19, 2007 and which completed construction within 36 months without an 18 month hiatus in construction may qualify for grandfathered status regardless of the…
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A terminal provides gasoline to a truck at the terminal?s truck rack at the same time the terminal is receiving gasoline into the same storage tank that is supplying the truck. The gasoline already in the terminal?s storage tank is properly classified as
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the regulation, the terminal must obtain a representative sample of gasoline from the storage tank and test it for sulfur content after receipt of the new load of gasoline into the terminal tank in order to continue…
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What PTD language is required for gasoline that includes both GPA gasoline and S-RGAS, where the S-RGAS has a higher downstream sulfur standard than the GPA gasoline?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.219(c)(ii) provides that all parties in the distribution system are prohibited from commingling GPA gasoline with gasoline not designated as GPA gasoline unless the mixture is classified as GPA gasoline. As a result, for a mixture of…
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Assume that the gasoline contained in the storage tank is not classified as SRGAS when the truck begins to receive product, but gasoline classified by the pipeline as SRGAS is being loaded into the terminal storage tank from a pipeline as the truck is bei
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the regulation the terminal must sample and test its gasoline subsequent to the receipt of the transferred gasoline into the terminal storage tank in order to qualify the gasoline in the tank as S-RGAS. However, it is…
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The sulfur rule says that a small refiner must produce gasoline by processing crude oil through a refinery processing unit. Does our refinery meet that requirement if we produce gasoline by processing crude oil through a processing unit, but we sometimes
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.225(a), a small refiner is a refiner who processes crude oil through refinery processing units, employed an average of no more than 1,500 people during 1998, and had an average crude capacity less than or equal…
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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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