2020-09337: Fuels Regulatory Streamlining

Summary

This action proposes to update the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) existing gasoline, diesel, and other fuels programs to improve overall compliance assurance and maintain environmental performance, while reducing compliance costs for industry and EPA. EPA is proposing to streamline its 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 will apply across all gasoline, diesel, and other fuels programs that EPA currently regulates. This action does not propose to change the stringency of the existing fuel quality standards.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 5 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 40 CFR 79 Registration of Fuels and Fuel Additives
• 40 CFR 80 Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives
• 40 CFR 86 Control of Emissions from New and In-Use Highway Vehicles and Engines
• 40 CFR 1037 Control of Emissions from New Heavy-Duty Motor Vehicles
• 40 CFR 1090 Regulation of Fuels, Fuel Additives, and Regulated Blendstocks