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Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help

EPA has required that volumes be reported in gallons, but much of the industry measures volume in barrels. May volume be reported in barrels?

No. If necessary, convert the volume in barrels to gallons using the proper conversion factor (42 gals/bbl) and round the result to the nearest whole gallon.

When rounding fractional values, values from 0.01 to 0.49 should be rounded down to the unit value and values from 0.50 to 0.99 should be rounded up to the next highest unit value.(7/1/94)

This question and answer was originally posted at Consolidated List of Reformulated Gasoline and Anti-Dumping Questions and Answers: July 1, 1994 through November 10, 1997 (PDF)(333 pp, 18.17 MB, EPA420-R-03-009, July 2003, About PDF)