## TM

February 3, 2014 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Transportation and Air Quality 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

### Washington, DC 20460
Re: Jatropha RFS2 Pathway Petition Insights Into Jatropha Projects Worldwide To Whom It May Concern: 

### Mr. Richard Palmer, CEO of Global Clean Energy Holdings, asked for JOiI's assistance in establishing a more thorough understanding of the status of several large-scale Jatropha curcas projects referenced in a recently published survey of global jatropha projects, specifically those located in China, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Due to confidentiality reasons we understand the primary investigator is unable to provide us the specific names or precise details of the projects that constitute the over 1 million hectares referenced in their published findings. With this information we could address the status of each project, but without it would only be speculation to estimate actual productive acreage in the aforementioned four countries. 

### Background The businesses of JOiI (S) Pte. Ltd. include research on Jatropha plant biotechnology for the production of elite lines, development of tissue culture facilities and nurseries in Singapore and other worldwide locations, sale of elite Jatropha seedlings to prospective commercial cultivators, conduct breeding and agronomy research and advisory on the commercial cultivation of elite Jatropha seedlings. JOiI is supported by Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Ltd. (TLL), Tata Chemicals Ltd, Toyota Tsusho Corporation and other investors. JOiI is also an active member of Jatropha Working Group of Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels, and is committed to ensure sustainability. As the leading commercial jatropha organization in the region, and one of only a few in the world, we have a far reaching network of contacts and are intimately familiar with industry trends and activity, 

### both regionally and globally. After being approached by Richard, we would like to provide the following feedback. ~ \

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## TM

Feedback On page 19 of the Jatropha survey a chart indicates that China has 274,559 ha (>6 projects), India 265,422 ha (>6 projects), Malaysia 259,906 ha (1-3 projects) and Indonesia 256,545 ha (4-6 projects) for a total of approximately 1.1mm hectares. While several project sponsors planned very large areas 

### several years ago, due to lack of funding, geopolitical obstacles, inadequate agronomic practices and poor business models, most projects were either suspended or abandoned. Even those that are surviving are very scattered and show very poor productivity of seeds per hectare. Estimating total project area, productive area and planted area is very difficult without specific details, but it is our professional opinion that the study's finding of approximately 1.1mm hectares in the region is inflated. Currently producing area is likely only a very small fraction of the area reported in the study, and each of those projects are relatively small, representing a few thousand hectares. Any substantial projects would be widely known in the industry and region, which they are not. The size of projects referenced in the study would make some of these farms the largest in the world with sizeable movements of finished products. Moreover, they would employ tens of thousands of workers while producing very large volumes of oil and meal that we would see and hear about in the market — a market we are involved in daily. Please advise if we can be of more service. Sincefely,

Sriram Srinivasan 

### ~ Chief Financial Officer JOiI (S) Pte Ltd +65 6872 9895 www.ioil.com .s ~

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