# Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Baseline Requirements for Gasoline Produced by Foreign Refiners
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1997-08-28 · Effective 1997-08-27 · 62 FR 45533
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-22803
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 45533
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 80
- **Publication date:** 1997-08-28
- **Effective date:** 1997-08-27
- **EPA docket:** FRL-5883-3
## Abstract

This final rule revises the requirements for imported conventional gasoline. The Agency has revised the rules for conventional gasoline (59 FR 7716, February 16, 1994) to allow a foreign refiner to choose to petition EPA to establish an individual baseline reflecting the quality and quantity of gasoline produced at a foreign refinery in 1990 that was shipped to the United States. The foreign refiner is required to meet the same requirements relating to the establishment and use of individual refinery baselines as are met by domestic refiners. This final action also includes additional requirements that address issues that are unique to refiners and refineries located outside the United States, namely those related to tracking the movement of gasoline from the refinery to the United States border, monitoring compliance with the requirements applicable to foreign refiners, and imposition of appropriate sanctions for violations. EPA will monitor the quality of imported conventional gasoline, and if it exceeds a specified benchmark, EPA will apply appropriate remedial action. Under this final action, the baseline for gasoline imported from refiners without an individual baseline would be adjusted to remedy the exceedance. EPA believes this final rulemaking is consistent with the Agency's commitment to fully protect public health and the environment, and with the U.S. commitment to comply with its obligations under the World Trade Organization agreement.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/08/28/97-22803/regulation-of-fuels-and-fuel-additives-baseline-requirements-for-gasoline-produced-by-foreign)
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