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The batch report requires reporting the volume percent for six oxygenates -methanol, MTBE, ethanol, ETBE, TAME and t-butanol. If a refiner or oxygenate blender uses MTBE or ethanol as an oxygenate, and does not include in its calculation of oxygen weight
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Trace amounts of oxygenates that may be present in MTBE or ethanol do not have to be reported. However, where a refiner reports total oxygen weight percent that includes MTBE or ethanol plus other oxygenates in larger than…
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Will EPA consider widening the limits on distillation?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The range of data on which the Complex Model was based limits the range within which the model will exhibit appropriate accuracy. The E200 range in the database was 33 to 66 vol%; extrapolation widened this range to…
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§ 80.101(i)(1) says that conventional gasoline cannot leave a refinery until testing is completed for all parameters used in the compliance calculation. (e)(2) of the same section says that for purposes of meeting (e)(1) a refiner may composite samples a
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations have been revised at § 80.101(i)(1) to allow conventional gasoline to leave a refinery or importer facility prior to the completion of sample testing. Note that there are additional constraints related to composite samples at §…
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Will the EPA "Spreadsheet" be revised to be considered acceptable for fuel certifications?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The spreadsheet was designed to provide assistance in understanding and implementing the Complex Model equations as provided in the regulations. The EPA has no authority to endorse the spreadsheet as a legal instrument of certification. Only the…
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What are specific calculation steps for conventional gasoline exhaust toxics and NOx emission performance? Is the annual statutory baseline used? If not, how are batches to be assigned to the summer/winter statutory baselines?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations currently state that batches of gasoline are to be designated as summer or winter for purposes of compliance calculations under the Complex Model based on the RVP of the gasoline (§ 80.101(g)(1)(ii)). However, EPA issued guidance…
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Will the EPA provide gasoline transfer document forms?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No.(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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Would it be permissible to combine (i.e., commingle) any-oxygenate RBOB with an RBOB designated for blending with 10 vol% denatured ethanol, provided the new RBOB (resulting from the combination) is designated for blending with 10% denatured ethanol?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.78(a)(7) provides that "no person may combine any reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending with any other gasoline, blendstock, or oxygenate...," and § 80.78(a)(7)(ii), states that an RBOB may be combined with "other RBOB for which the…
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In the case of a refiner whose conventional gasoline is blended with oxygenate downstream of the refinery, and where the refiner includes this oxygenate in its anti-dumping compliance calculations, what options are available to the refiner for defining th
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.101(d)(4)(ii)(A), a refiner may include in its refinery anti-dumping compliance calculations the oxygenate added downstream to gasoline produced at that refinery, if the oxygenate is added by the refiner. In addition, under § 80.101(d)(4)(ii)(B), the refiner…
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In light of the prohibition at § 80.78(a)(8) against mixing VOC-controlled RFG produced using ethanol with any other VOC-controlled RFG during the period January 1 through September 15 each year, how can a retail station change from ethanol-based RFG (th
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In the case of the transition at the conclusion of the high ozone season from MTBE-based RFG to ethanol-based RFG, the prohibition at § 80.78(a)(8) would not apply because by its terms this prohibition is limited only to…
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Is a laboratory considered to be "independent" under the independent sampling and testing requirements and the gasoline quality survey provisions, if the company that operates the laboratory also is a refiner who produces conventional gasoline only?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The independent sampling and testing requirements of § 80.65(f)(2)(iii) and the gasoline quality survey provisions of § 80.68(c)(13)(i) each require that the sampling and testing must be carried out by a laboratory that is independent of any refiner…
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In determining E200 and E300, will EPA allow D-86 distillation point averaging of gasoline grade data which is ± 20°F before graphing?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . E200 and E300 values should be calculated separately for each batch of gasoline. If error bars are associated with distillation data for repeat tests on a given batch, the results may be averaged for the purposes of graphing…
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If, in a splash blending situation, the terminal is not an oxygenate blender, would it handle the RBOB as an intermediate owner and transfer title of the RBOB to the exchange customer with the restriction that it only be sold to another intermediate owner
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If a terminal does not meet the oxygenate blender definition, the answer to both questions is "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…
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If RFG is sold outside of an RFG area, are there any labeling changes, physically on the pump, that will be required?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There are no pump labeling requirements under the RFG program, either inside or outside RFG covered areas. However, a mixture of conventional gasoline and RFG may not be sold as reformulated gasoline. Parties, therefore, should only sell gasoline…
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What volume of gasoline should a sample collected by an independent lab contain?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA believes that a one quart sample is adequate.(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…
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What documentation must a refiner or importer obtain to exclude exported gasoline from their compliance calculations per § 80.101(e)(4)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.101(e)(4) does not designate any specific documentation required to exclude exported product from a refiner's or importer's compliance calculations. However, product transfer documents accompanying a product for export should clearly indicate that the product is intended for…
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