MEMORANDUM

June 21, 2011

TO:  Air Docket
FROM:  Nancy Ketcham-Colwill, CISD/OTAQ/OAR, EPA
SUBJECT:  Meeting Summaries

On January 28, February 4 and March 18, 2011, EPA staff from the Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality met with staff from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to discuss issues concerning EPA's proposed pump label for E15 and request for comment on labeling other ethanol blends.  FTC staff were from the Bureau of Consumer Protection and involved in the development of FTC's proposed labels for gasoline-ethanol blends and consumer labeling experts.  
EPA and FTC staff discussed design of labels that would effectively inform consumers about the appropriate and prohibited uses of ethanol blends in light of EPA's partial waiver decisions and proposed misfueling mitigation rule.  EPA staff provided FTC staff with a summary of the suggestions made by commenters in response to the labeling portions of EPA's proposed rule.  FTC staff provided advice about label design based on their experience with consumer labeling.  EPA and FTC staff also discussed coordination of EPA and possible future FTC labels for ethanol blends.
FTC staff advice is described in the preamble to the final E15 misfueling mitigation rule.  EPA staff provided FTC staff with an opportunity to review a draft of the relevant sections of the preamble so that they could ensure that their advice was accurately reflected.  EPA accepted FTC staff comments on the preamble language describing their advice.
  

