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RIN: 2060-AS66

Publication ID: Spring 2021

Title: Renewables Enhancement and Growth Support Rule
Abstract: This action finalizes several changes intended to provide further opportunity for expanding the production and use of renewable fuels under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) program, and to reduce burden for regulated entities. This action allows renewable feedstocks that have been partially processed at one facility (commonly referred to as biointermediate feedstocks) to be fully converted into qualified finished renewable fuel at another facility. This action also includes the addition of several new feedstock and fuel pathways and makes numerous other revisions and technical corrections to the RFS and other fuels programs. Finally, this action implements quality specifications for fuel blends containing 16 to 83 volume percent ethanol. This would provide additional flexibility for ethanol flex fuel (EFF) producers to support distribution and use while continuing to ensure EFF quality is consistent with current vehicle emissions control system needs. Some provisions from the proposed rule were finalized in the final rule entitled "Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes" (85 CFR 7016).
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)	Priority: Other Significant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 80
Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7429 Clean Air Act

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	11/16/2016	81 FR 80828
Notice	12/14/2016	81 FR 90294
Final Rule	To Be Determined

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Information URL: https://www.epa.gov/renewable-fuel-standard-program/proposed-renewables-enhancement-and-growth-support-regs-rule
Sectors Affected: 221210 Natural Gas Distribution; 324110 Petroleum Refineries; 325193 Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing; 325199 All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing; 424710 Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals; 424720 Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers (except Bulk Stations and Terminals); 454310 Fuel Dealers
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Nick Parsons Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation NVFEL, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Phone:734 214-4479 Email: parsons.nick@epa.gov