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What options are available to pipelines for dealing with interface material, i.e., mixtures of two different types of product that result when the different products are adjacent during pipeline movement?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Interface Mixtures Involving RFG or RBOB First, the pipeline must minimize the instances of prohibited mixing, through the sequencing together of product types that may be legally mixed, to the greatest extent possible. Second, in those instances where…
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What options are available to refiners (and other regulated parties) in California for downgrading federal RFG in 1995, and CARB Phase II RFG in 1996 and beyond, to conventional gasoline for use outside the State of California. Such downgrading may be nec
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Normally, RFG may be redesignated as conventional gasoline without any restrictions, so long as the product transfer documents reflect this redesignation, and the redesignated gasoline is in fact used as conventional gasoline. See the Answers to Questions IX-B-13…
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When preparing samples for oxygen analysis according to section 80.46(g), isn't there a risk of losing volatile components when allowing samples to come to room temperature?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The fractional loss during "limited" sample handling is not measurable for these properties.(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)…
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When replacing conventional gasoline with RFG at a terminal, is it considered blending if the RFG is mixed with conventional bottoms?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . During the transition period prior to December 1, 1994, certified RFG may be put into tanks that contain conventional gasoline bottoms, as long as the tank is essentially filled with certified RFG gasoline on December 1, 1994, and…
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When will EPA publish a corrected version of the Complex Model? The NOx equation corrections published in the DFRM were not correct, and the published evaporative VOC equations do not yield the published baseline emissions for baseline fuel.
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Errors in the final rule for the reformulated gasoline program and the DFRM are being corrected in an upcoming technical amendment. The spreadsheet version of the Complex Model does not contain the errors that appeared in the Federal…
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Where a reformulated gasoline is injected into a "closed" proprietary pipeline, shipped to a "closed" proprietary marketing terminal and loaded into a proprietary truck and no other refiner can physically deliver or receive at these points, is it required
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The regulations require PTD's on each occasion when any person transfers custody or title of RFG, RBOB or conventional gasoline and conventional gasoline blendstock requiring the addition of oxygenate only. When the custody of gasoline changes within a…
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Where is it required in the regulations that the PTD's for RFG must designate the finished gasoline as meeting the oxygenate standard on the per-gallon or average? Would it not be sufficient to infer the average standards from the listings of min/max's on
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The PTD requirements for RFG do not require that gasoline be designated as meeting the standards, including the oxygenate standard, per-gallon or average. Section 80.77 does require that PTD information include the minimum and maximum downstream standards with…
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Who accounts for blending operations that take place in leased storage facilities?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Under the regulations, a refiner is any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a refinery. As indicated above, an oxygenate blender is any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, or…
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Who accounts for imported finished gasoline blended with blendstock?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If the blendstock added to the imported finished gasoline is oxygenate, then the blending activity is ignored and the finished gasoline is reported by the importer. If some other blendstock is blended to the imported finished gasoline, e.g…
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What are the sampling and testing requirements for terminal blenders (barges, trucks and pipelines)?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . If the facility's activities fit the definition of a refiner, it would have to sample and test each batch of gasoline as required under § 80.65(e). If its activities fit the definition of an oxygenate blender, it would…
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What are the requirements for reporting to EPA in the case of an independent lab that conducts sampling and testing that is unrelated to the independent sampling and testing requirements that apply for refiners or importers, such as quality assurance samp
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . There is no requirement that the results of downstream quality assurance sampling and testing must be reported to EPA. This is true both in the case of quality assurance sampling and testing by downstream parties such as pipelines…
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What are the requirements for retailers in the covered areas?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Retailers are subject to certain controls and prohibitions on reformulated gasoline as provided in § 80.78 of the regulations, such as meeting downstream standards, not selling conventional gasoline in RFG areas, selling VOC-controlled gasoline for the proper VOC…
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There are situations where ethanol will be present in very small quantities in RFG produced using other oxygenates. For example, ETBE often contains very small amounts of ethanol, less than 2%. As a result, will EPA apply a de minimis exception to the pro
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Section 80.78(a)(8) prohibits the mixing of VOC-controlled RFG produced using ethanol with VOC-controlled RFG produced using any other oxygenate during the period January 1 through September 15. EPA will not consider this prohibition violated, however, in the case…
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Today, and with the Phase I complex model, there is effectively a 1 RVP difference between the Region 1 and 2 standards. In Phase II, this difference basically drops to 0 RVP. Was this intended, and why?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . The Phase 2 Volatility Standards (55 FR 23658 (June 11, 1990)) provided the basis for the different RVP standards, depending on VOC Control Region, for reformulated gasoline under the Simple Model. The standards for VOC emissions performance for…
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If a pipeline must be classified as a refiner, how would that be handled administratively by EPA? Since pipelines don't own the product, would pipeline have to become buyers and sellers for regulatory purposes?
See More Frequent Questions about Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help . Refiners must be registered with EPA. The pipeline need not be an owner of the gasoline to be a refiner.(7/1/94) This question and answer was posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July…
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