Title 40, Part 1090 — Regulation of Fuels, Fuel Additives, and Regulated Blendstocks

Applicability and relationship to other parts.

Implementation dates.

Contacting EPA.

Confidential business information.

Approval of submissions under this part.

Rounding.

Requirements for independent parties.

Definitions.

Explanatory terms.

Acronyms and abbreviations.

Incorporation by reference.

General provisions.

Fuel manufacturers.

Detergent blenders.

Oxygenate blenders.

Oxygenate producers.

Certified butane producers.

Certified butane blenders.

Certified pentane producers.

Certified pentane blenders.

Transmix processors.

Transmix blenders.

Fuel additive manufacturers.

Distributors, carriers, and resellers.

Retailers and WPCs.

Independent surveyors.

Auditors.

Pipeline operators.

Overview and general requirements.

Sulfur standards.

Benzene standards.

Gasoline RVP standards.

RFG standards.

Anti-dumping standards.

Limitation on use of gasoline-ethanol blends.

Certified butane standards.

Certified pentane standards.

Gasoline deposit control standards.

Gasoline additive standards.

Gasoline oxygenate standards.

Ethanol denaturant standards.

RFG covered areas.

Changes to RFG covered areas and procedures for opting out of RFG.

Procedures for relaxing the federal 7.8 psi RVP standard.

Procedures for reinstating the 1.0 psi RVP allowance for E10.

Overview and general requirements.

ULSD standards.

Diesel fuel additives standards.

Heating oil, kerosene, ECA marine fuel, and jet fuel provisions.

500 ppm LM diesel fuel standards.

ECA marine fuel standards.

Gasoline produced from blending transmix into PCG.

Gasoline produced from TGP.

Diesel fuel and distillate fuel produced from TDP.

500 ppm LM diesel fuel produced from TDP.

Handling practices for pipeline interface that is not transmix.

General provisions.

Exemptions for national security and military use.

Exemptions for temporary research, development, and testing.

Exemptions for racing and aviation.

Exemptions for Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Exemptions for California gasoline and diesel fuel.

Exemptions for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands summer gasoline.

Exemptions for refinery extreme, unusual, and unforeseen hardship.

Exemptions for E85.

Exemptions for exports of fuel, fuel additive, and regulated blendstock.

Exemptions for distillate global marine fuel.

Compliance with average standards.

Facility level compliance.

Downstream oxygenate accounting.

Deficit carryforward.

Credit use.

Credit generation.

Credit transfers.

Invalid credits and remedial actions.

Downstream BOB recertification.

Informational annual average calculations.

General provisions.

Contents of registration.

Voluntary cancellation of company or facility registration.

Deactivation (involuntary cancellation) of registration.

Changes of ownership.

General provisions.

Reports by gasoline manufacturers.

Reports by gasoline manufacturers that recertify BOB to gasoline.

Reports by oxygenate producers and importers.

Reports by certified pentane producers.

Reports by independent surveyors.

Reports by auditors.

Reports by diesel fuel manufacturers.

Batch certification requirements.

Designation of batches of fuel, fuel additive, and regulated blendstock.

Designation requirements for gasoline and regulated blendstocks.

Designation requirements for diesel fuel and distillate fuel.

Batch numbering.

General requirements.

PTD requirements for exempt fuel, fuel additive, and regulated blendstock.

PTD requirements for gasoline, gasoline additives, and gasoline regulated blendstocks.

PTD requirements for distillate fuel and residual fuel.

PTD requirements for diesel fuel additives.

Alternative PTD language.

General recordkeeping requirements.

Recordkeeping requirements for all regulated parties.

Recordkeeping requirements for gasoline manufacturers.

Recordkeeping requirements for diesel fuel, ECA marine fuel, and distillate global marine fuel manufacturers.

Recordkeeping requirements for oxygenate blenders.

Recordkeeping requirements for gasoline additives.

Recordkeeping requirements for oxygenate producers.

Recordkeeping requirements for ethanol denaturant.

Recordkeeping requirements for gasoline detergent blenders.

Recordkeeping requirements for independent surveyors.

Recordkeeping requirements for auditors.

Recordkeeping requirements for transmix, 500 ppm LM diesel fuel, and pipeline interface.

General provisions.

Testing to demonstrate compliance with standards.

In-line blending.

Adding blendstock to PCG.

Adding blendstock or PCG to TGP.

Preparing denatured fuel ethanol.

Collecting, preparing, and testing samples.

Demonstrating homogeneity.

Preparing a hand blend from BOB.

Retaining samples.

Overview of test procedures.

Calculation adjustments and corrections.

Performance-based Measurement System.

Qualifying criteria for alternative measurement procedures.

Qualifying criteria for reference installations.

Quality control procedures.

Requirement for automated detergent blending equipment calibration.

Gasoline deposit control test procedures.

General provisions.

National fuels survey program.

Independent surveyor requirements.

Survey program plan design requirements.

Additional requirements for E15 misfueling mitigation surveying.

National sampling and testing oversight program.

Overview.

E15 labeling provisions.

Diesel fuel sulfur labeling provisions.

Requirements for gasoline dispensing nozzles used with motor vehicles.

Requirements for gasoline dispensing nozzles used primarily with marine vessels.

Requirements related to dispensing natural gas.

Requirements related to dispensing liquefied petroleum gas.

General provisions for importers.

Importation by marine vessel.

Importation by rail or truck.

Gasoline treated as a blendstock.

General provisions for exporters.

Prohibited acts.

Evidence related to violations.

Penalties.

Liability provisions.

Affirmative defense provisions.

General provisions.

Representative samples.

General procedures for gasoline manufacturers.

General procedures for gasoline importers.

Additional procedures for GTAB.

Additional procedures for PCG used to produce gasoline.

Alternative procedures for certified butane blenders.

Alternative procedures for certified pentane blenders.

Additional procedures related to compliance with gasoline average standards.

Procedures related to meeting performance-based measurement and statistical quality control for test methods.

Procedures related to in-line blending waivers.