EPA Proposes Changes to RFS2 Regs, Including New Requirements for Renewable Fuel Importers

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing extensive changes to its renewable fuels standard (RFS2) program regulations, including some changes that would impose new requirements on renewable fuel importers. The proposed rule would apply to importers of renewable fuels the requirements of 40 CFR 80.1466, including designation, foreign producer certification, product transfer document, load port independent testing and producer identification, submission to U.S. jurisdiction and posting of a bond, EPA said. Currently, those requirements only apply to foreign producers. The proposal would also prohibit importers from generating RINs for renewable fuel imported from a foreign renewable fuel producer or foreign ethanol producer, unless and until the foreign renewable fuel producer or foreign ethanol producer has satisfied all of the Section 80.1466 requirements.