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• I’m not concerned about dust. What about chemicals that may have been released by the event or the cleanup?

  The air and soil in and around the community has been monitored and sampled, and results confirm our confidence that the air and soil in East Palestine and surrounding communities, including inside homes, is not a concern for incident specific chemicals. While community testing conducted to date has not indicated…

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• Why are you cleaning homes and places of business?

  Since the derailment, property owners and renters have voiced concerns about the impact of the derailment and cleanup work on their homes and place of business. In response, Norfolk Southern, with EPA oversight, is providing indoor cleaning to interested, eligible occupants.

  • Last published: July 10, 2024

• What defines a batch for refineries utilizing in-line blending?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.2 of the regulations defines a "batch" as "a quantity of reformulated gasoline which is homogeneous with regard to those properties which are specified for reformulated gasoline certification." For refiners who are exempt from the independent sampling…

  • Last published: July 11, 2024

• I heard there was some new data on dioxin, what does it mean?

  EPA reviewed a presentation from an independent party offered at a recent community meeting that included confusing information. The high value highlighted, over 600,000 parts per trillion, was not the dioxin “toxic equivalency” (TEQ) value that is commonly used to compare soil data to appropriate standards, which is what EPA…

  • Last published: July 8, 2024

• Will cleaning the creeks be the last action taken at Sulphur Run and Leslie Run?

  EPA’s Order requires detailed identification (characterization) of contamination in Sulphur Run and Leslie Run. The stream characterization will include surface water and sediment testing for contaminants of concern including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate. This stream characterization will find any areas of remaining contamination and inform the next steps for…

  • Last published: July 8, 2024

• In its discussion of Enforcement Test Tolerances, EPA states that if test results "show the product to be above the standard, then the product is in violation regardless of whether or not it is within the tolerance." Since this is, technically, a violatio

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Parties are expected to take corrective action when samples collected at locations downstream of the refinery or import facility exceed an applicable standard for a parameter plus the enforcement tolerance for that parameter. For example, if a distributor…

  • Last published: August 6, 2024

• What is the definition of a responsible corporate officer (RCO) who is required to certify some of the submissions involved?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under § 80.75(n), reports to EPA must be signed and certified as correct by the owner or a responsible corporate officer of the refiner, importer, or oxygenate blender. "Owner" means the person who is the principal owner of…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• How long will it take me to complete the forms?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The hours provided below are based on the average hours estimated from a selection of fuel and fuel additive manufacturers: Additive Manufacturer Annual Report ~1 hour Fuel Manufacturer Annual Report ~3 hours Fuel Manufacturer Quarterly Report ~3 hours

  • Last published: August 6, 2024

• My company currently sells distillate blendstocks. Can we continue to sell blendstocks given the new regulations?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes, you may continue to sell blendstocks. In addition, it would also be in your best interest, for defense purposes, to identify any product that you ship. Question and Answer was originally posted at Questions and Answers on…

  • Last published: August 6, 2024

• We assume that a terminal operator who stores gasoline for a terminalling customer is responsible for receiving transfer documentation on RFG and conventional gas moved into the terminal for the customer. The terminal then records and stores copies of the

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Yes.(9/12/94) 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

• Do you have any updates on the status of EPA’s modeling of palm oil biodiesel?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . EPA is actively continuing its FRM evaluation of biodiesel produced from palm oil. We expect to complete that analysis within approximately 6 months, as stated in the preamble to the final rule. All currently available documents including meeting…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• To whom does the 20% limit on previous year RINs apply?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . This limit applies only to obligated parties. Under regulation Section 80.1127(a)(2), no more than 20% of the gallon-RINs used by an obligated party to meet its RVO can be previous-year RINs (having a YYYY code that is one…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Which non-obligated parties are allowed to participate in the credit trading program? Producers (with extra value RINs), oxygenate blenders, marketers?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Anyone can participate in the RIN trading program, subject to the requirement that the party first register with the EPA and then adhere to other regulatory requirements, including submitting required reports (such as quarterly reports on RINs held)…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Will non-obligated parties in possession of RINs create a RIN shortage?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The in-use production volumes of renewable fuel are expected to exceed the requirements of the RFS program by a substantial margin. As a result, we expect there to be a surplus of RINs for at least the first…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024

• Will non-obligated parties that can hold title to RINs be required to balance them each quarter?

  See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Every party that owns assigned RINs must comply with the end-of-quarter check described in regulation Section 80.1128(b)(5). This provision ensures that RINs must be transferred with renewable fuel as renewable fuel moves through the distribution system. However, this…

  • Last published: August 2, 2024