EPA’s dashboard showing the number of small refinery exemption (SRE) requests increased by 52 as of June 18, with those new requests for compliance years 2011 through 2018.
The updated data now provides a level of petitions filed for prior compliance years under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in what ethanol backers say is an attempt by refiners to become eligible for SREs ahead based on the 10th Circuit Court ruling that determined for the a refiner to be eligible for SREs they had to be extensions of prior requests.
“Petition counts include submissions from small refineries that are seeking reconsideration of petitions that were previously denied,” EPA said. “Accordingly, the count for any compliance year may include petitions from the same small refinery being represented as both a denial and still pending.”
There also are 27 requests pending for the 2019 compliance year and one for the 2020 compliance year.
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