An official website of the United States government.

This is not the current EPA website. To navigate to the current EPA website, please go to www.epa.gov. This website is historical material reflecting the EPA website as it existed on January 19, 2021. This website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work. More information »

Fuels Registration, Reporting, and Compliance Help

Would it be permissible to send a manual to downstream parties detailing the minimum and maximum values and requirements of each standardized product code (including different product codes for the difference minimum and maximum standards that would apply

It would be permissible to use codes to represent all required PTD information except for the statements required under § 80.106(a)(1)(vii) and (b) for conventional gasoline and certain conventional blendstocks. The response to Question 4 of the Product Transfer Document section in the August 29, 1994 Question & Answer document is intended to specify that codes may not be used as a substitute for the language required by these sections. But see the updated answer to Question 2, Section VI.I., of the July 1, 1994 Question and Answer document below, regarding the use of product codes where the information is transferred electronically using electronic data interchange (EDI) for transfers of title.(10/17/94)

This question and answer was 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)