[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 16]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR80.7]



[Page 615-616]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 80_REGULATION OF FUELS AND FUEL ADDITIVES--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart A_General Provisions

 

Sec.  80.7  Requests for information.



    (a) When the Administrator, the Regional Administrator, or their 

delegates have reason to believe that a violation of section 211(c) or 

section 211(n) of the Act and the regulations thereunder has occurred, 

they may require any refiner, distributor, wholesale purchaser-consumer, 

or retailer to report the following information regarding receipt, 

transfer, delivery, or sale of gasoline represented to be unleaded 

gasoline and to allow the reproduction of such information at all 

reasonable times.

    (1) For any bulk shipment of gasoline represented to be unleaded 

gasoline which is transferred, sold, or delivered within the previous 6 

months by a refiner or a distributor to a distributor, wholesale 

purchaser-consumer or a retail outlet, the refiner or distributor shall 

maintain and provide the following information as applicable:

    (i) Business or corporate name and address of distributors, 

wholesale purchaser-consumers or retail outlets to which the gasoline 

has been transferred, sold, or delivered.

    (ii) Quantity of gasoline involved.

    (iii) Date of delivery.

    (iv) Storage location of gasoline prior to transit via delivery 

vessel (e.g., location of a bulk terminal).

    (v) Business or corporate name and address of the person who 

delivered the gasoline.

    (vi) Identification of delivery vessel (e.g., truck number). This 

information



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shall be supplied by the person in paragraph (a)(1)(v) of this section 

who performed the delivery, e.g., common or contract carrier.

    (2) For any bulk shipment of gasoline represented to be unleaded 

gasoline received by a retail outlet or a wholesale-purchaser-consumer 

facility within the previous 6 months, whether by purchase or otherwise, 

the retailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer shall maintain 

accessibility to and provide the following information:

    (i) Business or corporate name and address of the distributor.

    (ii) Quantity of gasoline received.

    (iii) Date of receipt.

    (b) Upon request by the Administrator, the Regional Administrator, 

or their delegates, any retailer shall provide documentation of his 

annual total sales volume in gallons of gasoline for each retail outlet 

for each calendar year beginning with 1971.

    (c) Any refiner, distributor, wholesale purchaser-consumer, 

retailer, or importer shall provide such other information as the 

Administrator or his authorized representative may reasonably require to 

enable him to determine whether such refiner, distributor, wholesale 

purchaser-consumer, retailer, or importer has acted or is acting in 

compliance with sections 211(c) and 211(n) of the Act and the 

regulations thereunder and shall, upon request of the Administrator or 

his authorized representative, produce and allow reproduction of any 

relevant records at all reasonable times. Such information may include 

but is not limited to records of unleaded gasoline inventory at a 

wholesale purchaser-consumer facility or a retail outlet, unleaded pump 

meter readings at a wholesale purchaser-consumer facility or a retail 

outlet, and receipts providing the date of acquisition of signs, labels, 

and nozzles required by Sec.  80.22. No person shall be required to 

furnish information requested under this paragraph if he can establish 

that such information is not maintained in the normal course of his 

business.



(Secs. 211, 301, Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1857f-6c, 1857g))



[40 FR 36336, Aug. 20, 1975, as amended at 42 FR 45307, Sept. 9, 1977; 

47 FR 49332, Oct. 29, 1982; 61 FR 3837, Feb. 2, 1996]