E15 Fuel Registration

• FFARs
  guidelines
• E15 fuel
  registration

• About E15 fuel
• Registering E15 fuel
  • Misfueling Mitigation Plans
  • Compliance Survey Plans
  • Fuel product registration under Part 79

About E15 fuel

• Flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs);
• Model year 2001 and newer cars;
• Model year 2001 and newer light-duty trucks; and
• Model year 2001 and newer medium-duty passenger vehicles (SUVs). 

• On-highway and nonroad motorcycles;
• Vehicles with heavy-duty engines, such as school buses, transit buses, and delivery trucks;
• Nonroad vehicles, such as boats and snowmobiles;
• Engines in nonroad equipment, such as lawnmowers and chain saws; or
• Model year 2000 and older cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles.

• Regulation History of the E15 Partial Waivers Under the Clean Air Act (pdf) (135 KB, September 2015, EPA-420-F-15-044)
• E15 Standards & Regulations

Registering E15 fuel

Fuel producers must meet the following EPA requirements for E15 fuel.

1. Misfueling mitigation plans
2. Compliance survey plans
3. Fuel product registration under 40 CFR Part 79

Misfueling Mitigation Plans

The Misfueling Mitigation Rule requires companies to submit a Misfueling Mitigation Plan (MMP) to EPA for approval prior to selling E15. These plans must include measures that the fuel producer will take to reduce the potential of misfueling vehicles that cannot use E15.

Companies can submit their own MMPs or request EPA approval to use the Model Misfueling Mitigation Plan. Companies cannot introduce E15 into commerce until EPA has approved the request and the plan has been implemented.

Follow these three (3) steps to submit the request:

1. Compose a letter on company letterhead that includes the following:
   1. A request to use the Model Misfueling Mitigation Plan
   2. The company’s planned E15-related business (e.g., refiner, ethanol producer, oxygenate blender, retailer).
2. Have a company official sign the letter
3. Mail the letter to the appropriate address: EPA's Fuel Programs Mailing Addresses

After receiving the letter, EPA may seek additional information and/or require additional misfueling mitigation measures, as appropriate, considering the company’s specific circumstances.

• Documents related to E15 Misfueling Mitigation Plans
• Frequent questions related to motorcycle fueling

Compliance Survey Plans

Companies that use the Model Misfueling Mitigation Plan must submit a survey plan for EPA approval and cannot introduce E15 into commerce until EPA has approved the survey plan and the plan has been implemented.

Companies may choose to submit their own survey plans or use an approved survey plan.

• Contact the RFGSA 

Companies may submit their own survey plans by mailing a paper copy to the appropriate address: EPA's Fuels Programs Mailing Addresses

• Documents related to E15 Compliance Survey Plans

Fuel product registration under 40 CFR Part 79

All individual fuel and fuel additive manufacturers involved in manufacturing E15 must register with EPA. Manufacturers are required to:

• Analyze the combustion and evaporative emissions generated by their fuel and fuel additive products
• Survey existing scientific information for each product
• Conduct tests to screen for potential adverse health effects of these emissions, where adequate information is not available.
  • Documents related to the emissions and health effects testing of E15 fuel

Instructions for registering a fuel product:

• Register or update a fuel or fuel additive under 40 CFR Part 79