Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Administrative Stay of Certain Standards for Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is issuing a three-month administrative stay of certain portions of the anti-dumping regulations for conventional gasoline (gasoline not certified as reformulated gasoline) which were promulgated in December 1993. Specifically, today's action stays criteria of the existing requirements for obtaining an individual refinery baseline adjustment due to the production of JP-4 jet fuel in 1990 and criteria of the conventional gasoline provisions concerning refiners that are no longer able to obtain extremely sweet crude which was available in 1990 and was used to develop the 1990 individual baseline. In a related Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which is published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, EPA is proposing new baseline adjustment criteria for these two cases. In both of these cases, the stay only applies to those refiners that meet the new proposed criteria for a baseline adjustment.