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The EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, signed the following final rule on January 23, 

2015, and EPA is submitting it for publication in the Federal Register (FR). While we 

have taken steps to ensure the accuracy of this Internet version of the final rule, it is not 

the official version of the final rule for purposes of compliance. Please refer to the official 

version in a forthcoming FR publication, which will appear on the Government Printing 

Office's FDSys website (www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action) and on 

Regulations.gov (www.regulations.gov) in Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0283. Once 

the official version of this document is published in the FR, this version will be removed 

from the Internet and replaced with a link to the official version. 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 80 

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0283; FRL 9921-82-OAR] 

RIN 2060-AS19

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Extension of the Reformulated Gasoline 

Program to Maine’s Southern Counties

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency. 

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the Clean Air 

Act’s (CAA) prohibition against the sale of conventional gasoline in reformulated 

gasoline (RFG) areas to the southern Maine counties of York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, 

Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, and Lincoln (hereinafter, the “Southern Maine 

Counties”). This action is based on a request from the Governor of the State of Maine for 

areas within the ozone transport region established under the CAA. The CAA does not 

give the EPA discretion to deny a Governor's request on this matter. The scope of the 

EPA’s discretion is limited to establishing the date that the prohibition commences. 

Consistent with the Governor’s request, the EPA is finalizing as proposed a prohibition 
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commencement date of May 1, 2015 for all refiners, importers, and distributors in the 

Maine counties referenced in the Governor’s request, and June 1, 2015 for all retailers 

and wholesale purchaser-consumers in those counties. The EPA is also adding in its RFG 

opt-out rules a provision to reflect that there is a four-year minimum opt-in period for 

areas that opt into the RFG program on the basis of their location within the ozone 

transport region. This clarification aligns the federal regulation for RFG opt-out 

requirements with the CAA.

DATES: This final rule is effective on [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER DATE OF 

PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID No.

EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0283. All documents in the docket are listed on the 

www.regulations.gov web site. Although listed in the index, some information is not 

publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will 

be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air 

and Radiation Docket, EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004. This Docket Facility is open from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket

telephone number is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is 

(202) 566-1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patty Klavon, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood 
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Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105; telephone number: (734) 214-4476; fax number: 

(734) 214-4052; e-mail address: klavon.patty@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The contents of this preamble are listed in the following outline: 

I. General Information

II. Background 

III. Description of the Final Rule 

IV. Rationale

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

VI. Legal Authority and Statutory Provisions 

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

 Entities potentially affected by this rule are fuel producers and distributors who do 

business in Maine. 

Examples of Potentially Regulated Entities NAICS1 Codes

Petroleum refineries

Gasoline Marketers and Distributors 

Gasoline Retail Stations

Gasoline Transporters

324110

424710 

424720 

447110 

484220 

484230

The above table is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a guide for 

 

1 North American Industry Classification System
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readers regarding entities likely to be regulated by this action. The table lists the types of 

entities of which the EPA is aware that potentially could be affected by this rule. Other 

types of entities not listed on the table could also be affected by this rule. To determine 

whether your organization could be affected by this rule, you should carefully examine 

the regulations in 40 CFR 80.70. If you have questions regarding the applicability of this 

action to a particular entity, call the person listed in the FOR FURTHER 

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this preamble. 

II. Background

A. Background on the Federal Reformulated Gasoline Program 

 The purpose of the federal RFG program is to improve air quality in certain areas 

through the use of gasoline that is reformulated to reduce motor vehicle emissions of 

tropospheric ozone-forming compounds, as set forth in CAA section 211(k)(1). The EPA 

first published regulations for the federal RFG program on February 16, 1994. (59 FR 

7716). RFG makes up over 30 percent of the volume of motor vehicle gasoline consumed 

in the United States2 and is used in 17 states and the District of Columbia.3

 CAA section 211(k)(5) prohibits the sale of conventional gasoline (i.e., gasoline 

that the EPA has not certified as reformulated) in certain ozone nonattainment areas 

beginning January 1, 1995. CAA section 211(k)(10)(D) defines the areas initially covered 

by the federal RFG program as ozone nonattainment areas having a 1980 population in 

excess of 250,000 and having the highest ozone design values during the period 1987 

 

2 See the U.S. Energy Information Administration statistics on consumption and sales of petroleum and 

other liquids at: http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/reports.cfm?t=164. 3 For a map showing current RFG areas, please visit the EPA’s website at: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/fuels/gasolinefuels/rfg/areas.htm. 
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through 1989.4 In addition, under CAA section 211(k)(10)(D), any area reclassified as a 

Severe ozone nonattainment area under CAA section 181(b) is also included in the 

federal RFG program. Finally, CAA sections 211(k)(6)(A) and (B) allow areas classified 

as Marginal, Moderate, Serious, or Severe ozone nonattainment areas, or areas within the 

ozone transport region established under CAA section 184, to opt into the RFG program 

at the request of the Governor of the State in which the area is located.

 Maine is in the ozone transport region established under CAA section 184, and its 

request to opt into the RFG program was made pursuant to CAA section 211(k)(6)(B). 

That provision specifies that upon petition of the Governor of a State in the ozone 

transport region, the EPA is to apply the prohibition against selling or dispensing of 

conventional gasoline in RFG covered areas in any area in the State other than an area 

classified as Marginal, Moderate, Serious, or Severe ozone nonattainment area under 

subpart 2 of part D of subchapter 1 of the Clean Air Act. This prohibition is to 

“commence as soon as practicable but not later than 2 years after the date of approval by 

the Administrator of the application of the Governor of the State.” CAA section 

211(k)(6)(B)(ii)(I). However, if the EPA determines that there is insufficient capacity to 

supply RFG, the EPA may extend the commencement date by no more than a year, and 

may renew that extension for two additional one-year periods. CAA section 

211(k)(6)(B)(iii). The area may not opt out of the federal RFG program earlier than four 

(4) years after the RFG commencement date. CAA section 211(k)(6)(B)(ii)(II).

B. Request from the State of Maine

 

4 Applying these criteria, the EPA has determined the nine covered areas to be the metropolitan areas 

including Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, San Diego, Philadelphia, Hartford, 

and Milwaukee.
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 In 2013, the State of Maine enacted Public Law 2013 c.221 calling for the use of 

RFG in York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, and Lincoln 

counties beginning May 1, 2014. On July 23, 2013, the Governor of Maine formally 

requested, pursuant to CAA section 211(k)(6)(B), that the EPA extend the requirement 

for the sale of RFG to these counties beginning on May 1, 2014. 

The Maine legislature subsequently enacted an emergency law, Public Law 2013 

c.453, effective March 6, 2014, to postpone the requirement for the sale of RFG in these 

counties until June 1, 2015. Pursuant to that legislation, the Commissioner for the State of 

Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) submitted a request to the EPA 

dated March 10, 2014, modifying Maine’s request for the implementation date for the 

sale of RFG in the Southern Maine Counties to coincide with June 1, 2015.5

 

 Copies of the Commissioner’s letter, the letter from the Governor of the State of 

Maine dated July 23, 2013, and the Maine legislation establishing the use of RFG in the 

Southern Maine Counties are available in the docket at EPA-HQ-OAR-2014-0283. 

The EPA issued a proposal for public comment on August 28, 2014 (79 FR 

51288), consistent with the State’s request. No comments were received. 

III. Description of the Final Rule

 Based on our evaluation of the appropriate lead time and start dates, and pursuant 

to Maine’s request for a June 1, 2015 implementation date and the provisions of CAA 

section 211(k)(6), the EPA is amending its RFG regulation at 40 CFR 80.70 to add new 

 

5 The EPA has determined that the original petition from the Governor of Maine, together with the revised 

Maine legislation and the Commissioner’s letter, serve as a petition from the Governor under CAA section 

211(k)(6)(B) seeking commencement of the prohibition in CAA 211(k)(5) in the Southern Maine Counties 

on June 1, 2015. 
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paragraph (n)(1) extending the CAA section 211(k)(5) prohibition against the sale of 

conventional (i.e., non-reformulated) gasoline in RFG covered areas to the Southern 

Maine Counties. Based on Maine’s request for a June 1, 2015 implementation date, the 

EPA is finalizing as proposed the prohibition on the sale of conventional gasoline in the 

Southern Maine Counties to commence as of May 1, 2015 for all regulated entities in 

these counties other than retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers (i.e., refiners, 

importers, and distributors), and as of June 1, 2015 for retailers and wholesale purchaserconsumers. Thus, conventional gasoline may not be sold to consumers in the Southern 

Maine Counties as of June 1, 2015. Only RFG may be sold to consumers in these 

counties as of June 1, 2015. The Southern Maine Counties are part of the ozone transport 

region as defined in CAA section 184. They are not currently classified under subpart 2 

of Part D of CAA subchapter I as Marginal, Moderate, Serious, or Severe ozone 

nonattainment areas. 

 Further, in today’s action, EPA is updating its RFG opt-out regulation at 40 CFR 

80.72 to add a new paragraph (c)(8) to reflect that there is a four-year minimum opt-in 

period for areas that opt into the RFG program on the basis of their location within the 

ozone transport region. This clarification aligns the federal regulation for RFG opt-out 

requirements with CAA section 211(k)(6)(B)(ii)(II).

 Thus, the State of Maine may not opt out of the federal RFG program for the 

Southern Maine Counties before May 1, 2019 for all regulated entities other than retailers 

and wholesale purchaser-consumers, and not before June 1, 2019 for retailers and 

wholesale purchaser-consumers, respectively. 

IV. Rationale
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The EPA has determined that the commencement dates for the prohibition of the 

sale of conventional gasoline in the Southern Maine Counties finalized in today’s action 

provide a reasonable balance by achieving air quality benefits in southern Maine by the 

start of the 2015 peak ozone season and providing adequate lead time for industry to 

prepare for program implementation. The dates are consistent with the State's request that 

the EPA require RFG to be sold in the Southern Maine Counties to coincide with the 

beginning of the high ozone season, which begins June 1 of each year. Thus, the dates 

provide environmental benefits by allowing southern Maine to achieve volatile organic 

compound (VOC) reduction benefits for the 2015 VOC control season. The dates are also 

consistent with the statutory requirement that the EPA set the date for commencement of 

the prohibition within two years of the EPA’s approval of the application by the 

Governor. 

 Today’s final action has no effect on the approved Maine State Implementation 

Plan (SIP). The State of Maine intends to submit a proposed SIP revision requesting the 

removal of its existing 7.8 Reid Vapor Pressure fuel requirements for the Southern Maine 

Counties. The EPA will consider Maine’s request when it is received. 

 As stated previously, the EPA received no comments on the proposed rulemaking. 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory Planning and 

Review and Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review

This action is not a "significant regulatory action" under the terms of Executive 

Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and is therefore not subject to review under 
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Executive Orders 12866 and 13563. (76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011). 

B. Paperwork Reduction Act 

 This action does not impose any new information collection burden under the 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.3. The OMB has approved the information collection requirements that apply 

to the RFG program (see 59 FR 7716, February 16, 1994), and has assigned OMB control 

number 2060-0277 (EPA ICR No. 1591.25).

C. Regulatory Flexibility Act

The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) generally requires an agency to prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis of any rule subject to notice and comment rulemaking 

requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act or any other statute unless the 

agency certifies that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. Small entities include small businesses, small organizations, and 

small governmental jurisdictions.

For purposes of assessing the impacts of today's final rule on small entities, small 

entity is defined as: (1) defined by the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 

regulations at 13 CFR 121.201; (2) a small governmental jurisdiction that is a 

government of a city, county, town, school district or special district with a population of 

less than 50,000; and (3) a small organization that is any not-for-profit enterprise which is 

independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field. 

 After considering the economic impacts of today’s final rule on small entities, I 

certify that this action will not have a significant adverse impact on a substantial number 

of small entities. In promulgating the RFG regulations for conventional gasoline, the EPA
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analyzed the impact of the regulations on small entities. The EPA concluded that the 

regulations may possibly have some economic effect on a substantial number of small 

refiners, but that the regulations may not significantly affect other small entities, such as 

gasoline blenders, terminal operators, service stations and ethanol blenders. See 59 FR 

7810-7811 (February 16, 1994). As stated in the preamble to the final 1994 RFG rule, 

exempting small refiners from the RFG regulations would not meet CAA requirements. 

59 FR 7810. However, since most small refiners are located in the mountain states or in 

California, which has its own RFG program, the vast majority of small refiners are 

unaffected by the federal RFG requirements (although all refiners of conventional 

gasoline are potentially subject to the RFG requirements). Moreover, all businesses, large 

and small, maintain the option to produce conventional gasoline to be sold in areas not 

obligated by the CAA to receive RFG or those areas which have not chosen to opt into 

the federal RFG program. A complete analysis of the effect of the RFG regulations on 

small businesses is contained in the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis which was prepared 

for the 1994 RFG regulations, and can be found in the docket for that rulemaking. The 

docket number is: EPA Air Docket A-92-12. 

Today's final rule affects only those refiners, importers or blenders of gasoline 

that choose to produce or import RFG for sale in the Southern Maine Counties, and 

gasoline distributors and retail stations in those areas. As discussed above, the EPA 

determined that, because of their location, the vast majority of small refiners will be 

unaffected by the RFG requirements. For the same reason, most small refiners will be 

unaffected by today's action. Other small entities, such as gasoline distributors and retail 

stations located in the Southern Maine Counties, which will become a covered area under 
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today’s final rule, will be subject to the same requirements as those small entities which 

are located in current RFG covered areas. The EPA did not find the previous RFG 

regulations to significantly affect these entities. 

D. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA)

 This final rule does not contain a Federal mandate that may result in expenditures 

of $100 million or more for State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or the 

private sector in any one year. Thus, this final rule is not subject to the requirements of 

sections 202 and 205 of the UMRA. Although the EPA does not believe that UMRA 

imposes requirements for this rulemaking, the EPA notes that the environmental and 

economic impacts of the federal RFG program were assessed in the EPA’s Regulatory 

Impact Analysis for the 1994 RFG regulations. 

This final rule is also not subject to the requirements of section 203 of UMRA 

because it contains no regulatory requirements that might significantly or uniquely affect 

small governments. 

E. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism) 

This action does not have federalism implications. It will not have substantial 

direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the 

States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of 

government, as specified in Executive Order 13132. The final rule imposes requirements 

only on certain refiners and other entities in the gasoline distribution system, and not on 

States. The requirements of the final rule will be enforced by the federal government at 

the national level. Thus, Executive Order 13132 does not apply to this final rule. 

F. Executive Order 13175 
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This action does not have tribal implications, as specified in Executive Order 

13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000). Today's final rule affects only those refiners, 

importers or blenders of gasoline that choose to produce or import RFG for sale in the 

Southern Maine Counties, and gasoline distributors and retail stations in those areas. 

Thus, Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this action. 

G. Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children from Environmental Health and 

 Safety Risks

This action is not subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 

1997) because it is not economically significant as defined in Executive Order 12866, and 

because the Agency does not believe the environmental health or safety risks addressed 

by this action present a disproportionate risk to children. 

H. Executive Order 13211: Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly

Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use 

This action is not subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001) 

because it is not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order 12866. 

I. National Technology Transfer Advancement Act

 Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 

(NTTAA), Public Law 104-113, 12(d) (15 U.S.C. 272 note) directs the EPA to use 

voluntary consensus standards in its regulatory activities unless to do so would be 

inconsistent with applicable law or otherwise impractical. Voluntary consensus standards 

are technical standards (e.g., materials specifications, test methods, sampling procedures, 

and business practices) that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards 
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bodies. NTTAA directs the EPA to provide Congress, through OMB, explanations when 

the Agency decides not to use available and applicable voluntary consensus standards. 

This action does not involve technical standards. Therefore, the EPA did not 

consider the use of any voluntary consensus standards. 

J. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in 

Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations 

 Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994) establishes federal 

executive policy on environmental justice. Its main provision directs federal agencies, to 

the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, to make environmental justice part 

of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high 

and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and 

activities on minority populations and low-income populations of the United States. 

The EPA has determined that this final rule does not have disproportionately high 

and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority or low-income 

populations because it increases the level of environmental protection for all affected 

populations without having any disproportionately high and adverse human health or 

environmental effects on any population, including any minority or low-income 

population. 

K. Congressional Review Act 

 The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a 

rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which 

includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller 
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General of the United States. The EPA will submit a report containing this rule and other 

required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the 

Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal 

Register. A Major rule cannot take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal 

Register. This action is not a “major rule” as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). This rule will be 

effective [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE 

FEDERAL REGISTER] 

VI. Legal Authority and Statutory Provisions

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Extension of the Reformulated Gasoline 

Program to Maine’s Southern Counties

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 80

Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Fuel additives, Gasoline, 

Motor vehicle pollution. 

 

Dated:_____________________ 

___________________________ 

Gina McCarthy, 

Administrator
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For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Environmental Protection Agency is 

amending 40 CFR part 80 as follows: 

PART 80—REGULATION OF FUELS AND FUEL ADDITIVES

1. The authority citation for part 80 continues to read as follows: 

2. AUTHORITY: 42 U.S.C. 7414, 7521, 7542, 7545, and 7601(a). 

3. Section 80.70 is amended by adding paragraph (n) to read as follows: 

§ 80.70 Covered areas. 

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 (n) The areas included in paragraph (n) of this section are located within the 

ozone transport region established under Clean Air Act section 184(a), are not classified 

as a Marginal, Moderate, Serious, or Severe ozone nonattainment area, and have opted 

into the reformulated gasoline program. They are covered areas for the purposes of 

subparts D, E, and F of this part. 

(1) The southern Maine counties of York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, 

Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, and Lincoln are a covered area beginning June 1, 2015. 

The prohibitions of Clean Air Act section 211(k)(5) apply to all persons other than 

retailers and wholesale purchaser-consumers in these counties beginning May 1, 2015. 

The prohibitions of section 211(k)(5) of the Clean Air Act apply to retailers and 

wholesale purchaser-consumers in these counties beginning on June 1, 2015. 

(2) Reserved.

3. Section 80.72 is amended by adding paragraph (c)(8) to read as follows: 

§ 80.72 Procedures for opting out of the covered areas.

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(c) * * *

(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of paragraph (c) of this section, for an area 

that opted in pursuant to Clean Air Act Section 211(k)(6)(B), the Administrator shall not 

set the effective date for removal of the area earlier than four years after the 

commencement date of opt-in. 

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