Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Renewable Fuel Standard ...

est practices would have the option of adding a “G” (for “green”) to the end of the RIN
of a fuel to indicate that a gallon of renewable fuel was produced with the combination of
best farming practices, and environmentally friendly production methods and facilities.
The details of such a concept, including the points noted below, would need to be
developed before it could be fully considered for adoption.
At this time, we are requesting comments on voluntary programs that would
recognize the efforts of farmers and renewable fuel producers that undertake the most
environmentally sound practices and encourage others to adopt similar practices. In
particular we are interested in comments on options for designs of potential voluntary
programs including what criteria should be used to establish environmentally sound
practices, how to verify that these environmental practices are indeed used in the
production of renewable fuel, how this information could be used to promote expanded
use of good practices, how the program could be most efficiently and effectively
administered whether by EPA, some other Federal agencies, or perhaps a third-party, and
finally how to assess effectiveness of such a voluntary programs.
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