
                 UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                NATIONAL VEHICLE AND FUEL EMISSIONS LABORATORY
                             2000 TRAVERWOOD DRIVE
                           ANN ARBOR, MI  48105-2498
				     OFFICE OF
				AIR AND RADIATION

September 20, 2013

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:  	Meeting with Shell Oil Products U.S.

FROM:	Joe Sopata, Chemist
		USEPA/OAR/OTAQ/CD/FCC

TO:  		EPA Docket # EPA-HQ-OAR-2012-0401


This memo documents a meeting held on September 11, 2013 between representatives of Shell Oil Products U.S. (Shell) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to discuss EPA's Pathways II Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) entitled, "Regulations of Fuels and Fuel Additives: RFS Pathways II and Technical Amendments to the RFS2 Standards".  The meeting attendees from Shell included, John Reese, Cathy Davis, Ryan Cassens and Olivia Adams, and from EPA included Mary Manners, John Weihrauch and Joe Sopata.

The purpose of this meeting was for Shell to further communicate their July 15, 2013 comments to the Pathways II NPRM that the proposed revisions in 40 CFR 80.1466 concerning segregation and bonding for foreign renewable fuel producers and renewable fuel importers are overly complex, unworkable from a logistics perspective and unreasonably retroactive.  EPA will take their comments and concerns into consideration in promulgating the Pathways II Final Rulemaking. 

