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| 02-4067 | Regulation of Fuel and Fuel Additives: Reformulated Gasoline Transition | Rule | With today's action the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to improve flexibility of refiners and terminal operators during the springtime transition to summer grade reformulated gasoline (RFG). Specifically, we are eliminating the requirements for blendstock tracking and accounting. This change will increase refiners' flexibility to transfer gasoline blendstocks, and help to improve the responsiveness of the gasoline supply system, by removing some significant refinery compliance and reporting burdens that are no longer necessary. Today's actions, in combination with other Agency actions, are intended to help ease the annual spring transition from winter grade RFG to summer grade RFG by promoting improved RFG inventories during this transition period. These actions include EPA's future extension of the 2% VOC enforcement tolerance to include the first turn of summer grade RFG tanks at terminals, and EPA's recent final rule regarding the procedures for using previously certified gasoline. In order to help the public understand the relationship between today's actions and these prior Agency actions, we briefly summarize these two related EPA actions in the preamble to today's final rule. We are also making certain technical modifications to existing regulations. Specifically, we are updating certain ASTM designated analytical test methods for reformulated and conventional gasoline to their most recent ASTM version, and also updating several sampling methods to their most recent ASTM version. These updates will allow improvements in the test method procedures and sampling procedures that will ensure better operation for the user of the test methods and sampling procedures. Finally, while EPA proposed to establish a new April 15 annual compliance date for reformulated gasoline (RFG) and reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending (RBOB), we are not taking final action on that proposal today. | 2002-02-26 | 2002 | 2 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/02/26/02-4067/regulation-of-fuel-and-fuel-additives-reformulated-gasoline-transition | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-02-26/pdf/02-4067.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | With today's action the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to improve flexibility of refiners and terminal operators during the springtime transition to summer grade reformulated gasoline (RFG). Specifically, we are eliminating the... |