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Is it required that the professional engineer conducting the engineering review must be licensed in the state in which the renewable fuel facility is located?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The licensed professional engineer should comply with the state laws where the renewable fuel facility is located to determine whether or not their license allows them to conduct business in that state.
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May records, regardless of whether they are paper or electronic, be stored off-site?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Refiners, oxygenate blenders and importers must indicate where records will be kept on all facility registrations.(7/1/94) This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994…
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Is the licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review required to perform the site visit in person, or can they delegate the site visit to another person who maybe assisting them in the engineering review?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Pursuant to §80.1450(b)(2), all verifications must be performed by the licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review. This requirement includes conducting the site visits. The licensed professional engineer conducting the engineering review must perform the site visits to…
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In filing company and facility registrations, if a parent corporation has several subsidiary corporations it desires to register and report to EPA under one company ID number, would it be permissible to register all of the facilities operated by the subsi
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . In this situation the parent corporation should register for a company ID # and facilities operated by the subsidiary corporations should be registered as separate facilities but under the parent corporation's company ID #.(8/29/94) This question and answer…
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If my fuel is already registered with the Fuels and Fuel Additives program under 40 CFR Part 79, do I still need to register with the RFS2 program under 40 CFR Part 80?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. Even if your fuel or fuel additive is already registered under 40 CFR Part 79, there are additional registration requirements for parties regulated under the RFS2 program, as specified in 40 CFR 80.1450.
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Will there be an increase in turbidity (cloudiness or muddiness) or silt in the streams?
The increased flow from this work is expected to be minimal and should not impact turbidity or silt.
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Will returning the natural flow of water to Sulphur Run disturb areas with sheen?
Conditions in the streams are much improved because of previous cleanup work conducted in 2023. Although oily sheens remain, they are settled in the sediment and do not impact surface water unless disturbed. The increased water flow to Sulphur Run will be minimal and is not expected to disturb sheen…
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On the registration forms it seems you are forced to check only one primary activity (refiner, oxygenate blender, importer, or independent lab). Do you submit two forms if you are both a refiner and importer?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. The final forms have been changed to register each company once for all applicable activities. As before, each facility will be registered separately for each activity that is undertaken at the facility. Import facilities need not be…
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Under "Business Activities" on the Company Details CDX web page, what does "Small Blender" mean?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The small blender business activity is in relation to §80.1440: "What are the provisions for blenders who handle and blend less than 125,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year?" The small blender business activity entry is for those…
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How will engineering reports be treated in terms of public access and CBI? Will there be web access for submitted reports?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA will process any public requests for engineering reports on a case-by-case basis and there will be no general web access to the engineering reports. Engineering reports, or portions thereof, for which the submitter asserts a confidential business…
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80.1450 refers to a Fuel Supply Plan. Is this referring to the fuel used for process energy? If not, what is it referring to? If yes, by "source" do you mean the name of the supplier? The regulations ask for the locations from which the process energy fue
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The Fuel Supply Plan referred to in 80.1450(b)(3) refers to fuel used at a renewable fuel production facility to generate process energy. "Source" means the name of the supplier of that fuel. Since 80.1450(b)(1)(iv) asks for the locations…
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What is the status of the cleanup at the site?
In October 2023, it was announced that the excavation work, which removed the known areas of contaminated soil at the derailment site, was complete. The soil double-check work has been ongoing for months and is expected to continue into the fall. The timeline of our expected completion plans for final…
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When can we access the streams again?
The upcoming cleanup efforts will focus on oil-based compounds which, based on recent sampling, are the only derailment-related contaminants remaining in the creeks. Please obey all posted signage and continue to avoid access in Sulphur and Leslie Runs until further notice.
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What has changed?
For the past several months as the collected wastewater has gone through the system, sample results have shown that the wastewater meets the standards set for vinyl chloride and other derailment-caused contaminants without treatment, meaning it can be disposed of as non-hazardous waste. Testing of the collected wastewater will continue…
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Why collect the rainwater and snowmelt around the derailment site?
Until excavation work and confirmatory sampling are completed, any wastewater collected from the derailment site is considered a “listed hazardous waste” because it may have come into contact with vinyl chloride or other hazardous contaminants from the derailment. Even though the soil contamination has been removed, our double-check work is…
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