EPA gives refiner relief in making low-sulfur fuel
Date: 30-Nov-01
Country: USA
This marks only the third time the agency has provided such regulatory relief.
United Refining Co, based in Warren, Pennsylvania, won the temporary relief by demonstrating it would incur extreme hardships in complying with the new clean-fuel rule at it 65,000 barrel-per-day refining plant.
EPA has established federal limits aimed at reducing gasoline sulfur levels beginning in 2004 and cutting them by 90 percent by 2006.
A refiner applying for hardship relief must demonstrate that it has made its best effort to comply with the requirements of the new regulation.
United Refining is a subsidiary of Red Apple Group Inc. Most of the gasoline produced by United is distributed to its 350 KwikFill gas stations in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
EPA previously granted two similar hardship approvals last May to the National Cooperative Refinery Association and the Wyoming Refining Co.
