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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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Please define any restriction in the RFG program on mixing ethanol and ether fuels.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.78(a)(8), no person may combine VOC-controlled RFG produced using ethanol with VOC-controlled RFG produced using any other oxygenate during the period of January 1 through September 15 of each year. This prohibition applies at all locations…
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Could a refinery producing conventional gasoline composite samples up to one month, ship to another location and run testing there?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. The regulations do not specify where or by whom the testing may be performed. The refiner or importer is ultimately responsible for sampling and testing each batch of conventional gasoline and reporting the results to EPA. Composite…
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How will EPA enforce their regulations in California? Will the Agency defer to the California Air Resources Board?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Prior to the start of the California Phase II RFG program in March 1996, EPA generally will enforce the federal RFG program California in the same manner in which it will be enforced in other parts of the…
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Section 80.65(e) lists properties that product must be tested for before shipment. Some of these do not have standards in the simple model. Is it necessary to test, and ultimately report, those parameters not required for the simple model? Is reporting of
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners and importers must test for each parameter listed in § 80.65(e) for RFG certified under the simple model with the exception of T-50 and, in the case of non-VOC controlled RFG, RVP. However, in the case of…
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At a recent seminar hosted by SIGMA, EPA officials indicated that transfer documentation would be satisfactory if initiated by the transferee as long as both parties agreed to this system. Please confirm this understanding?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Your understanding is correct. However, while EPA would not object to a cooperative agreement between the transferor and the transferee, the transferor remains liable if the transferee does not have all the required PTD information for each batch.(9/26/94)…
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Is independent sampling and testing required of oxygenate blenders?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A party who meets the definition of oxygenate blender is not required to have the gasoline it produces sampled or tested by an independent lab. However, an oxygenate blender is required to sample and test the gasoline it…
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Who is the transferor and who is the transferee in the case of an exchange transaction? The sequence of physical custody is from terminal to truck to retail outlet, but the sequence of legal custody is from the terminal to exchange partner to marketer to
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Any party who is receiving title or custody of the delivery would be considered a transferee, any party who relinquishes title or custody would be considered a transferor and any party who both receives and relinquishes title or…
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Would the following scenario require product transfer documents? At the end of a month of gasoline transactions, the following shortages apply: Company A owes 10,000 barrels of product to company B Company B owes 10,000 barrels of product to company C Com
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA would not consider this a transfer of either custody or title since no actual gasoline is represented by these "book transfers"; however, PTD's must be provided where there is a transfer of title or custody of any…
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Will a regulated party's defense fail if test results indicate the product is over the standard but within the EPA announced test tolerance?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As discussed in the Enforcement Tolerance section of this document, all gasoline downstream of the refinery or importer level may be released if test results for each parameter show the gasoline to be within the applicable standard plus…
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Would it be permissible to send a manual to downstream parties detailing the minimum and maximum values and requirements of each standardized product code (including different product codes for the difference minimum and maximum standards that would apply
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . It would be permissible to use codes to represent all required PTD information except for the statements required under § 80.106(a)(1)(vii) and (b) for conventional gasoline and certain conventional blendstocks. The response to Question 4 of the Product…
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