No, EPA is not developing software to check hand-off balances. We will rely on database reports to identify potential hand-off reporting problems. Specifically, we will be looking at summaries of transactions, for a given quarter, between individual hand-off partners (shipper and receiver) to verify that the product volume shipped equals the product volume received, with zero tolerance.
Question and Answer was originally posted at Questions and Answers on the Clean Diesel Fuel Rules (PDF)(135 pp, 888 K, EPA420-B-06-010, July 2006, About PDF)