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What happens if, after submitting his annual compliance demonstration report, a refiner discovers that he exceeded the 20% cap on the use of previous-year RINs in meeting his RVO? Is he required to replace those RINs with new valid RINs at the old market
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Annual compliance demonstrations must include a showing that the RINs used to comply with the RVO include no more than 20% previous-year RINs. If it is determined that this showing was incorrect due to either a mathematical error…
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What's the difference between generating a RIN and assigning it?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Generating a RIN refers to the process of creating a new RIN to represent a particular type and volume of renewable fuel. See regulation Section 80.1126(d). Assignment occurs when the producer or importer of the renewable fuel transfers…
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If you have a spill, does the K code change to 2 for the spilled volume?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No, the K code is not changed as the result of a spill. (Refer to section 80.1132 of the regulation regarding retirement of RINs due to a spill.) Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers…
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Eligibility for qualified oil-filled operational equipment in event of a discharge
Does a facility automatically lose eligibility for the option for qualified oil-filled operational equipment if the equipment has an oil discharge? No. Facilities that choose this alternative and later have a reportable oil discharge from qualified oil-filled operational equipment do not automatically lose eligibility. However, the spill reporting requirements would…
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Can qualified facilities also use the alternative requirements for qualified oil-filled operational equipment?
Yes. Facilities that meet the criteria for qualified facilities and qualified oil-filled operational equipment may benefit from both of the alternative approaches. Since an impracticability determination is not necessary for qualified oil-filled operational equipment, the owner/operator can self-certify the SPCC Plan and is not required to have a PE develop…
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What business activity should producers and marketers register under?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Producers and marketers should register as RIN owners and, as appropriate as an ethanol producer/importer, biodiesel producer/importer, and under any other category that applies to them. Registration is available on-line at Registration for Fuel Programs . If a…
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We are best described as an ?intermediate feedstock processor?. We produce gasoline by processing feedstocks (that are derived from crude oil) in processing units which are the same as those used in crude oil refineries. We process less than 75,000 barrel
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. EPA's definition of "small refinery" is identical to the definition used in EPAct, as it was intended to implement the EPAct provisions. EPAct defines a small refinery as a refinery for which the average aggregate daily crude…
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In many cases, no document is created on the date that title of the renewable fuel is transferred to the purchaser, which typically is the date the purchaser receives the fuel, and an invoice typically is used by the parties to recognize the transfer of t
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations at section 80.1128(a)(7) provide that any RINs assigned to a renewable fuel must be recorded on the product transfer document used to transfer ownership of the renewable fuel volume to another party, or the RINs may…
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If a plant establishes RINs at the beginning of the month and defines it as one month's production estimate (e.g. 8 million gallons), what happens if the plant produces more than 8 million gallons by the end of the month? Does the plant then start issuing
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . RINs are not generated at the beginning of a month. Rather, gallon-RINs must have been generated by the time a volume of renewable fuel is transferred from the producer or importer to another party (at which point the…
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We would describe ourselves as an ethanol marketer, but we import gasoline into one of the 48 contiguous United States. Does this make us an obligated party and, as an obligated party, are we able to separate RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If a party is an importer of gasoline into the 48 contiguous United States, then that party is an obligated party. Section 80.1129(b)(6) allows an obligated party to separate RINs they generated from volumes of renewable fuel, if…
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How can a marketer transfer RINs with a K code of 1 and fulfill the requirement that "No person may transfer a RIN that has a K code of 1 without transferring an appropriate volume of renewable fuel to the same person on the same day" ?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . A party may transfer any volume of renewable fuel to any other party without simultaneously transferring any assigned RINs to that same party. However, assigned RINs can only be transferred to another party in association with the transfer…
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The RIN is too long to fit onto my bill of lading. What are my options?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . An assigned RIN must appear in its entirety on product transfer documents (PTDs) identifying a transfer of ownership of a volume of renewable fuel. Substitute codes are not permitted. See regulation Section 80.1153. (In general PTDs would not…
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How do owners of the ethanol account for product samples taken at the plant and downstream relative to RINs? Likewise, how is standard product shrinkage (i.e. when ethanol is transferred to a terminal) handled relative to RINs?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In general, the RINs associated with small volumes removed for sampling and testing, or lost due to evaporation, leakage, or metering imprecision, remain valid for RFS compliance purposes. Small volume losses can be accommodated through the regulatory provision…
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What would the wholesaler put on his PTDs when he transfers title to another party?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.1153 describes the requirements for PTDs, which generally include the name and address of the transferor and transferee, the company registration number of each, the volume of renewable fuel being transferred, the date of the transfer, and…
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If an oxygenate blender must transfer RINs with a volume of renewable fuel, who are they transferring to, if they are the final/end-user?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If any oxygenate blender blends renewable fuel into gasoline or diesel, he is no longer required to transfer RINs and renewable fuel together. Question and Answer was originally posted at: Questions and Answers on the Renewable Fuel Standard…
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