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Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help

If a pipeline does not have sufficient storage capacity for all grades of ULSD and exempted product, will the pipeline be allowed to blend at the terminal to prevent outages?

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Yes, pipelines/terminals may blend different grades of fuel subject to the anti-downgrading limitations on highway ULSD and volume balance requirements for highway diesel fuel, nonroad diesel fuel, and high sulfur NRLM as applicable (see section 80.599).

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)

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Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help

If a pipeline does not have sufficient storage capacity for all grades of ULSD and exempted product, will the pipeline be allowed to blend at the terminal to prevent outages?

Fuels and Fuel Additives Compliance