July 16, 2010

MEMORANDUM

TO: 			Air Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0133

SUBJECT:	Supplemental Materials for Canola Oil Biodiesel

This memorandum accompanies information related to the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) analysis of lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions for canola oil biodiesel.  To facilitate public review, below
is a brief description of additional data, reports, and references for
canola oil biodiesel.

1.  Memo to EPA from U.S. Canola Association & Canola Biodiesel
Stakeholders

This document contains background and general information on canola and
canola biodiesel production.  

2.  Canola LCA Data report

This report prepared for the Canola Council of Canada, by (S&T)2
Consultants Inc., documents the practices of growing canola, crushing it
to extract the oil, and then processing the oil to produce biodiesel.
Data is provided for both Canadian and US canola.

3.  U.S. Canola Baseline

This spreadsheet has United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) U.S.
canola production projections through 2019-20.  

4.  Land Trends in Canada

This spreadsheet shows how agricultural acreage has evolved over time in
Canada.  

5.  Tillage Practices in Western Canada

This spreadsheet shows the evolution of tillage practices in western
Canada including extrapolated out to 2021.

6.  North Dakota Fertilizer Survey

This spreadsheet shows results of a nitrogen fertilizer survey from
North Dakota and has the nitrogen applied per area. This was from a 2009
ND survey. 

7.  NBB Energy Use Survey

This document describes the results of an energy use survey conducted by
the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) of biodiesel production energy use. 
The report also has the feedstock requirements. 

8.  Canola Crushing Data

This spreadsheet has the oil yield data from Statistics Canada for
canola crushing in Canada.  It has almost 40 years of monthly yield
data.  Data from the Statistics Canada website.
http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.pgm?regtkt=&C2Sub=&ARRAYID=
10005&C2DB=PRD&VEC=&LANG=E&SrchVer=2&ChunkSize=50&SDDSLOC=&ROOTDIR=CII/&
RESULTTEMPLATE=CII/CII_PICK&ARRAY_PICK=1&SDDSID=&SDDSDESC= 

9.  U.S. Soybean Use by Livestock

This document shows the use of soymeal in livestock rations for 2009.  

