Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0161-3134
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2010-03-26T04:00Z

RFS2 Phone & E-Mail Log

Includes all substantive telephone conversations, e-mails, and
conference calls between EPA personnel and non-government stakeholders
following signature of the RFS2 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on May 5,
2009.

Date	EPA person	Stakeholder	Purpose of Call / Topic Discussed

5/05/09	Barry Garelick

Jim Caldwell

Megan Brachtl

Scott Christian

Doris Wu	Novogy

Colin South

Jay Niles

Maureen Walsh & Sophia Isani of ML Strategies	Biogas for transportation
sector, role of biogas under RFS-2

5/6/09	Dallas Burkholder	JD Scott, Crown Iron Works	Corn fractionation

5/8/09	Dallas Burkholder	Christian Roy, Vaperma	Membrane separation;
status of technology, cost, energy impacts, adoption rates

5/15/09	Paul Machiele	Fred Potter	RFS2 proposal questions

5/20/09	Doris Wu	Marilyn Wurth, NYSDEC	Cellulosic feedstocks, plant
siting, agricultural modeling, marginal lands, New York State’s
potential for biomass

5/28/09	Lester Wyborny

Dallas Burkholder

Julie Boledovich

Aron Butler

Doris Wu	Laurel Harmon and Graham Ellis of UOP	Obtained update on pilot
plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

6/2/09	Paul Machiele	NAACA	The proposal in general

6/17/09	Paul Machiele	Chevron	2010 Standard and BBD std

6/18/09	Doris Wu

Lester Wyborny

Dallas Burkholder

Aron Butler

Julie Boledovich

Robert Larson

Paul Machiele

Aron Levy

Vince Camobreco	Sapphire Energy

Denise Gitsham

Tim Zenk

Peter Attia

Rex Motes

Stefan Unnasch (LCA)	Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial plant
operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

6/22/09	Dallas Burkholder	Dr. Richard Krablin, Greenshift Corp.	Corn oil
extraction

6/24/09	Paul Machiele	Nathaniel Greene, NRDC	Cellulosic biofuel credits
and MSW defn

6/25/09	Paul Machiele	Environment Canada	Overview of the Proposal and
Coordination

6/25/09	Robert Larson

Vince Camobreco

Aaron Levy	CARB

John Courtis	LCA coordiantion

6/30/09	Dallas Burkholder	Justin Hughes, Matt Craig, Brook Porter,
PrimaFuels	Corn oil extraction

7/1/09	Julie Boledovich	B.A. Thorpe on behalf of Flambeau River Biofuels
Obtained update on Flambeau’s cellulosic diesel project in Park Falls,
WI.

7/13/09	Paul Machiele

Barry Garelick

John Hannon

Meg McCarthy

Paul Argyropoulos

Robert Larson

Roland Dubois	Pat Raher

Fulcrum

NRDC	Treatment of MSW

7/15/09	Paul Machiele, John Weihrauch, David Korotney, Meg McCarthy	Tim
Hogan, NPRA

Mike Leister

Al Mannato, API

Patrick Kelly	RIN generation in the context of renewable biomass defn. 
Treatment of RINless biofuels.

7/16/09	Paul Machiele	Nathalie Hoffman	Treatment of US Sugarcane

7/17/09	Lester Wyborny	JC Bell of Bell Bio-Energy	Obtained update on
pilot plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

7/22/09	Tia Sutton	Gerry Faudel, Frontier Oil Corporation	Summarized
7/15 small refiner conference call that he was not able to attend; he
noted key concerns that he currently has (RIN pricing & availability,
LCA

7/23/2009	Anthony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch	Jonathan Miller, ConocoPhillips	Discussion of EMTS
functionality.

7/27/09	Jarrod Brown	Kerry Nixon of the Central Minnesota Cellulosic
Partners	Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial plant operations
and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

7/28/09	Russ Smith

Lester Wyborny	John Howe of Verenium Corporation	Obtained update on
pilot plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

8/6/09	Paul Machiele

Karl Simon	Chris Hessler for Iogen	Cellulosic Biofuel Credits

8/14/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch	Tom Hawthorne, L.T. Hawthorne & Co.	Discussion of EMTS
functionality.

8/27/09	Lester Wyborny	Fulcrum BioEnergy	Obtained update on pilot plant
and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

8/31/09	David Korotney

Paul Machiele

John Weihrauch	UNICA

Joel Valesco	Treatment of imports

9/2/09	Paul Machiele

David Korotney

Robert Larson

Vincent Camobreco	Mitchell Burack	Cellulosic ethanol pathway

9/3/09	Lester Wyborny

Russ Smith 

Julie Boledovich

Dallas Burkholder

Doris Wu

Aron Butler	Bill Guerrey of Kelly Drye

Chris Peters of Choren Industries

Robert Freeks of Rentech Inc.

Robert Burns of Flambeau River Biofuels

David of Sun Fuels Hawaii	Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial
plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

9/3/09	Lester Wyborny

Doris Wu	Ric Rotondo of US Greenenergy	Obtained update on pilot plant
and commercial plant operations and plans

9/3/09	Doris Wu	George Fitch of Caribbean Ethanol Producers Group

	CBI ethanol pathway information for GHG threshold analyses

9/4/09	Robert Larson

Vincent Camobreco

Jefferson Cole	Iowa State

Dermot Hayes	Biofuel modeling

9/4/09	Vince Camobreco

Robert Larson

Doris Wu

Jefferson Cole

Sharyn Lie	Pioneer

Dean C. Oestreich 	Crop yields and technology

9/9/9	Vince Camobreco

Robert Larson

Doris Wu

Jefferson Cole

Sharyn Lie

Aaron Levy	Dupont-Pioneer

Dean Oestreich

Michael

Steve	Crop yields and biotechnology

9/9/09	Julie Boledovich	Bob Byrne from Flambeau River Biofuels	Obtained
update on Flambeau’s cellulosic diesel project in Park Falls, WI.

9/10/09	Lester Wyborny	Pat Gruber of Gevo	Obtained update on pilot plant
and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

9/15/09	Julie Boledovich

Lester Wyborny

Doris Wu

Jeff Herzog	Wes Bolsen of Coskata Inc.	Obtained information on
Coskata’s cellulosic ethanol technology, potential lifecycle
implications, and pilot plant operations. 

Discussed likelihood of making fuel from Madison, PA demonstration plant
commercially available in 2010.

9/15/09	Vince Camobreco

Robert Larson

Doris Wu

Aaron Levy

Jefferson Cole

Sharyn Lie

Michael Shelby	Pioneer

Steve Brody

Keith	Crop yields and price elasticities in agricultural modeling

9/15/09	Robert Larson

Vince Camobreco	CARB

John Courtis

Anil Prabhu	LCA coodination

9/17/09	Lester Wyborny, Julie Boledovich, Dallas Burkholder	Necy Sumait
of Bluefire Ethanol	Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial plant
operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

Discussed some aspects of the proposed rulemaking.

9/17/09	Doris Wu

Lester Wyborny

Aron Butler

Dallas Burkholder

Julie Boledovich

Robert Larson

Vince Camobreco	Sapphire Energy

Peter Attia

	Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial plant operations and
plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

9/17/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch	Brian Shadle and

Jeff Hove, Petroleum Marketers and Convenient Stores of Iowa	Discussion
of EMTS functionality.

9/21/09	Doris Wu	Canopy Prospecting, Inc.

Erik Johnson	Discussed CBI ethanol pathway information for GHG threshold
analyses

9/28/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch	Greg McMillian and James O’Neil, Magellan Midstream
Discussion of EMTS functionality.

10/1/09	Lester Wyborny	Jack Boykin of Cello Energy	Gained permission to
test their fuel.

10/2/09	Barry Garelick	Nathaniel Greene, NRDC	Email from B. Garelick to
N. Greene seeking clarification on comment on RFS2 pertaining to MSW.

10/5/09	Tony Miller	Melissa Donovan and Clayton McMartin, RINStar	RFS2
comment clairification.

10/8/09	Barry Garelick	Nathaniel Greene, NRDC	Email from N. Greene
providing clarification on comment on RFS2 pertaining to MSW and
information on level of recycling deemed “sufficient”.

10/8/09	Lester Wyborny	Tom Boushaurd of Dynamotive Energy Systems
Obtained update on pilot plant and commercial plant operations and
plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

10/11/09	Russ Smith

Lester Wyborny

Dallas Burkholder

Julie Boledovich

	ICM Inc.	Obtained information on corn-based butanol production plans
with Gevo at existing ICM corn ethanol/research center in St. Joseph,
MO.

10/14/09	Lester Wyborny	JC Bell of Bell Bioenergy	Obtained update on
pilot plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

10/15/09	Paul Machiele

David Korotney

Paul Argyropoulos	Shell

John Reese	Their comments and issues with respect to the proposal

10/15/09	Paul Machiele	Mike Leister	Status of the rule

10/21/09	Lester Wyborny

Russ Smith	John Ziulkoski of Swift Fuels	Obtained update on pilot plant
and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

Discussed some aspects of the proposed rulemaking

10/29/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch	Bill Senn and Claudia Castro, Exxon Mobil Corporation
EMTS scenarios and functionality discussion.

11/2/09	Lester Wyborny

Julie Boledovich	Rick Leblanc of Chemrec	Obtained update on pilot plant
and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

11/3/09	Russ Smith	Lori Litzen of KL Energy	Obtained historical
information on cellulosic ethanol production from KL Energy’s Western
Biomass Energy plant in Upton, WY and 2010 production plans.

11/4/09	Paul Machiele

Russ Smith

Lester Wyborny

Julie Boledovich

Dallas Burkholder	Glenn Johnston of Gevo (and consultant, Gary Herwick)
Discuss Gevo’s near term business plan to introduce iso-butanol into
the US fuels market, specifically into RFG markets including issues with
the Complex Model.  

11/4/09	Julie Boledovich	Mark Warner from Gulf Coast Energy	Obtained
information on small pilot/demo cellulosic ethanol plant in Livingston,
AL and future commercialization plans.

11/5/09	Paul Machiele

Lester Wyborny

Julie Boledovich

Dallas Burkholder	Bill Schafer of Range Fuels	Obtained update on pilot
plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Discussed plant operations information for lifecycle analysis.

Discussed some aspects of the proposed rulemaking

11/9/09	Lester Wyborny	Jack Boykin of Cello Energy	Obtained update on
commercial plant operations and plans.

11/9/09	Julie Boledovich	Adam Walter at AE Biofuels	Obtained information
about cellulosic ethanol production capabilities from AE Biofuels’
small demo plant in Butte, MT.  

11/9/09	Doris Wu	Stephen Mayfield of San Diego Center for Algae
Biotechnology	Discussed overview of EISA and how SDCAB could potentially
help develop lifecycle analyses for algae pathways

11/10/09	Julie Boledovich	Molcolm McNeill of Terrabon Inc.	Obtained
information on cellulosic diesel production capabilities and current use
of product from Terrabon’s Advanced Research Center in Bryan, TX.

Discussed current timeline for building Port Arthur, TX demonstration
plant and/or next production facility.  

11/10/09	Dallas Burkholder	Jeremy Javers, Doug Rivers, Greg Krissek,
Scott Kohl, ICM	Plans for future cellulosic ethanol plants, bio-butanol,
approval process for engineered microbes to digest cellulose

11/10/09	Lester Wyborny

Russ Smith

Dallas Burkholder

Julie Boledovich	Dave Summa and others from Mascoma	Obtained 2010
cellulosic ethanol production plans for Rome, NY pilot plant and
commercialization plans.

Requested updated projected plant operations information for life cycle
analysis.

11/11/09	Barry Garelick

Roland Dubois

John Hannon

	Ted Kniesche, Fulcrum Energy

Latane Montague, Hogan and Hartson

Patrick Raher

Latane Montague; Hogan and Hartson	Email from L. Montague with follow-up
comments to the conference call on 11/10/09. 

Discussion of EISA definition of renewable biomass and whether MSW
qualifies as such.

Discussed aspects of their comments and analyses.

Discussed aspects of NPRM.

11/13/09	Julie Boledovich	Brian Silvey from Cargill Inc.	Obtained
corrected information on Cargill’s corn ethanol plant capacity and
boiler fuels used at Blair, NE and Eddyville, IA plants.

11/25/09	Julie Boledovich	Christopher Roach of Abengoa Bioenergy
Obtained status update on Abengoa’s planned Hugoton, KS cellulosic
ethanol plant.

11/29/09	Julie Boledovich	Christopher Brown of AEE Distilleries	Obtained
information on AEE’s cellulosic ethanol plant planned for New Milford,
CT and other potential project locations.

11/30/09	Barry Garelick	Nathaniel Greene, NRDC	Email from N. Greene on
level of separation associated with MRF’s.

12/1/09	Julie Boledovich	Rick Barraza of Fulcrum BioEnergy	Obtained
information cellulosic ethanol production capabilities from Fulcrum
Turning Point Ethanol demonstration plant in Durham, NC and update on
larger Sierra Biofuels project planned for Storey County, NV.

12/2/09	Julie Boledovich	Mark Stowers of POET Biorefining	Obtained
information about cellulosic ethanol production capabilities and current
use of product from POET’s Project Bell plant in Scotland, SD.

Obtained update on commercial-scale Project Liberty plant planned for
Emmetsburg, IA.  

12/2/09	Julie Boledovich	Rick LeBlanc of Chemrec	Obtained information
about Chemrec’s planned cellulosic biofuel production plans at various
pulp and paper mill sites.

12/10/09	Julie Boledovich	Lori Litzen of KL Energy	Obtained follow-up
information on KL Energy’s production plans from Upton, WY plant and
intentions of making fuel commercially available in 2010.  

12/11/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch

Pascal Dedijinou	Jeff Hove and Brian Shadle, Petroleum Marketers and
Convenient Stores of Iowa (PMCI)	EMTS node web services discussion.

12/14/09	Barry Garelick	Greg Staiti, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Discussed grandfathering provisions in NPRM; how actual maximum output
is calculated if the plant has no capacity stated in its permit, and the
plant has been in operation for less than a year.  

12/14/09	Julie Boledovich	Marie Helene Labrie of Enerkem	Obtained
construction update on Enerkem’s cellulosic ethanol plant in Westbury,
Canada and plans for producing and making commercial volumes of fuel
available to U.S. markets in 2010.  

12/15/09	Julie Boledovich	Craig Stuart-Paul of FiberRight	Obtained
information on Fiberight pilot plan in Lawrenceville, VA and plans for
demonstrating MSW-to-ethanol technology at former Xethanol plant in
Blairstown, IA. 

Discussed plans for making commercial volumes of cellulosic ethanol
available in 2010.  

12/15/09	Julie Boledovich	Jim McVaney of Rentech Inc.	Obtained
information on Rentech’s plans to install a Clearfuels biomass
gasifier and produce cellulosic diesel from existing facility in
Commerce City, CO.

Discussed production plans for Rialto Energy Center facility in
California using SilvaGas gasifier.

12/16/09	Lester Wyborny	JC Bell of Bell Bioenergy	Obtained update on
pilot plant and commercial plant operations and plans.

Requested updated, projected plant operations information for lifecycle
analysis.

12/16/09	Julie Boledovich	Jennifer Hutchins of DuPont Danisco Cellulosic
Ethanol (DDCE)	Obtained construction update on DDCE’s cellulosic
ethanol plant in Vonore, TN and plans for producing and making
commercial volumes of fuel available in 2010.

12/16/09	Tony Miller

Scott Christian

John Weihrauch

Pascal Dedijinou	BP - Terry Gordon, Tom Carter, Satia (didn’t catch
the last name), Depa Venu	EMTS node discussion.

12/16/09	Tony Miller

Pascal Dedijinou	PMCI – Brian Shadle  and Jeff Hove

Poet Ethanol – Tim Lardon and Margie Hill

Marathon - Chris Joo, Kim brooks, Laura Lagerquist

RINStar – Melissa Donovan, Jim Mashore, and Clayton McMartin	EMTS node
web services discussion.

12/17/09	Julie Boledovich	Doug Freeman of NewPage Corp.	Obtained status
update on New Page’s Project Independence cellulosic diesel plant
planned for Wisconsin Rapids, WI.

12/17/09	Julie Boledovich	Mark Dietzen of INEOS Bio	Obtained information
on cellulosic ethanol production capabilities from INEOS Bio (formerly
BRI) pilot plant in Fayetteville, AR and more information on New Planet
Energy project planned for Vero Beach, FL.

12/17/09	Julie Boledovich	M. Clark Dale of BioProcess Innovations
Obtained update on BPI’s planned cellulosic ethanol projects for the
U.S. and Canada.

12/17/09	Julie Boledovich	Jeff Passmore of Iogen Corp.	Obtained
information about the likelihood of Iogen import cellulosic ethanol
produced from Ottawa, Canada demonstration plants to the U.S. in 2010.

12/17/09	Tony Miller

Pascal Dedijinou	Chevron – 

Jade Pongcharoen

JP Nair

Don Gilstrap

Ruth Gizzo

Bob Anderson 	EMTS node discussion.

12/18/09	Julie Boledovich	Bob Byrne of Flambeau River Biofuels (and
consultant, B.A. Thorpe)	Obtained status update on Flambeau’s
cellulosic diesel project in Park Falls, WI.

12/22/09	Tony Miller

Pascal Dedijinou	ADM - Amanda Akers 

	12/23/09	Julie Boledovich	Adam Walter of AE Biofuels	Obtained
information on AE Biofuels’ proposed commercial-scale cellulosic
ethanol plans at existing Keyes, CA corn ethanol plant.  

12/29/09	Julie Boledovich	Mark Stowers of POET Biorefining	Obtained
information about utilization of CHP technology at POET ethanol plants.

12/31/09	Julie Boledovich	Steven Shevick of Cobalt Biofuels (via Kathy
Kelsey)	Obtained information about Cobalt Biofuel’s Mountain, CA
operations and plans for commercializing biobutanol technology.

1/6/10	Tony Miller

Pascal Dedijinou	Guru Alliance/RINSource – 

Sri Devi

Nick Navas

	EMTS node discussion.

1/7/10	Tony Miller

Pascal Dedijinou	Marathon – 

Ron Naliborski

Laura Lagerquist

Chris Joo

Kimberly Brooks	EMTS node discussion.