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Supplemental Determination for Renewable Fuels Produced Under the Final RFS2 Program From Grain Sorghum

air-emissions · Rule · Published 2012-12-17 · Effective 2012-12-17 · 77 FR 74592

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Document number
2012-30100
Federal Register citation
77 FR 74592
CFR reference
40 CFR 80
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2012-12-17
Effective date
2012-12-17
EPA docket
EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0542

Abstract

EPA is issuing a supplemental rule associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. This final rule contains a lifecycle GHG analysis for grain sorghum ethanol and a regulatory determination that grain sorghum ethanol qualifies as a renewable fuel under the RFS Program. EPA's analysis indicates that ethanol made from grain sorghum at dry mill facilities that use natural gas for process energy meets the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reduction threshold of 20 percent compared to the baseline petroleum fuel it would replace, and therefore qualifies as renewable fuel. It also contains our regulatory determination that grain sorghum ethanol produced at dry mill facilities using specified forms of biogas for both process energy and most electricity production, has lifecycle GHG emission reductions of more than 50 percent compared to the baseline petroleum fuel it would replace, and that such grain sorghum ethanol qualifies as an advanced biofuel under the RFS Program.

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