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• Do grandfathered facilities have an additional 6 months to submit their engineering reviews to EPA?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. In the preamble to the final RFS2 regulations at 75 Fed. Regs. 14709 (March 26, 2010), EPA stated that, in an effort to reduce demand on engineering resources in the interim between promulgation of the rule and…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• If a party buys a batch of ethanol, and through testing determines that the ethanol is synthetic (non-renewable), what happens to the RINs?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If a volume of renewable fuel for which RINs have been generated is found to not be a valid renewable fuel under the RFS program, then the associated RINs are likewise deemed invalid. See regulation Section 80.1131. If…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• If a specific refinery is the producer of renewable diesel, I assume they need a facility ID number, but we can use the RINs for aggregate company compliance.

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes. The facility ID number is used to generate the RIN, but the RIN can be separated and used for compliance on a company-wide aggregate basis, subject to any applicable restrictions in the regulations such as regulation Sections…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• If blenders either opt not to trade or are not allowed to trade, who will be responsible for tracking these RINs through the system?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The blender must submit quarterly RIN transaction reports to EPA that will document all RIN transactions, including RIN purchases, RIN sales, and expired RINs. RINs that are reported purchased and thereafter are not sold will be identifiable through…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• If I am registered for the RFS program, do I have to receive RINs with the renewable fuel I purchase?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Being registered for the RFS program does not mean that a party must receive RINs with the renewable fuel they purchase. Being registered for the RFS program means that a party is eligible under the regulations to receive…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Prior to the RFS rule, industry has used an equation for standardization of ethanol volumes that carries the correction factor out to 5 digits rather than 7 digits as in the formula given in the RFS rule at 80.1126(d)(7)(i). Will use of the equation curre

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Because the difference between the five-digit and seven-digit factors is extremely small, regulated parties may find that it makes no practical difference whether they use the shorter factor for batches of a certain size . If it makes…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• While there is no renewable fuel obligation under the RFS2 program for the production or importation of conventional jet fuel, RINs can be generated for renewable jet fuel. Is that right?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . As described in 80.1407, only gasoline and diesel fuels produced or imported into the U.S. are subject to the renewable fuel standards. Thus, only gasoline and diesel fuel volumes produced or imported by an obligated party factor into…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Will internal auditors be able to perform the attestation audits under the direct supervision of an independent CPA firm? Can the internal audit department meet the attestation requirement using CPAs rather than CIAs?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.125(c) provides that an independent CPA (or firm of CPAs) engaged by a refiner, importer or oxygenate blender may complete the attest engagement requirements with the assistance of internal auditors so long as such assistance is in…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Will the Complex Model for NOx emissions take additive effects into account?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . No. However, the Complex Model can be augmented through the vehicle testing procedure outlined in the final rule to include the emission effects of an additive.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• 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 )

  • Last published: August 2, 2024