Fuels Regulatory Streamlining

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Parts 60, 63, 79, 80, 1042, 1043, 1065 and 1090 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0227; FRL-10014-97-OAR] RIN 2060-AT31 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This action updates many of EPA's existing gasoline, diesel, and other fuel quality programs to improve overall compliance assurance and maintain environmental performance, while reducing compliance costs for industry and EPA. EPA is streamlining existing fuel quality regulations by removing expired provisions, eliminating redundant compliance provisions ( e.g., duplicative registration requirements that are required by every EPA fuels program), removing unnecessary and out-of-date requirements, and replacing them with a single set of provisions and definitions that applies to all gasoline, diesel, and other fuel quality programs. This action does not change the stringency of the existing fuel quality standards. DATES: This rule is effective on January 1, 2021, except for amendatory instructions 48, 51, and 52, which are effective on December 4, 2020, and amendatory instructions 16, 18, and 19, which are effective on January 1, 2022. The incorporation by reference of certain publications listed in this regulation is approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of December 4, 2020. The incorporation by reference of ASTM D86-12, D93-13, D445-12, D613-13, D4052-11, and D5186-03 (R2009) in part 1065 was approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of J…