EPA: 20 SRE petitions filed, 189 SRE petitions now pending
June 19, 2025
BY Erin Krueger
The U.S. EPA on June 18 published updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data, reporting that 20 new SRE petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard during the past month. According to the agency, 189 SRE petitions are currently pending.
The newly filed SRE petitions include two filed for RFS compliance year 2019, two for RFS compliance year 2020, two for RFS compliance year 2021, four for RFS compliance year 2022, three for RFS compliance year 2023, and seven RFS compliance year 2024.
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According to EPA’s SRE data dashboard, CHS Laurel Refinery filed on SRE petition for its facility in Laural, Montana, seeking a waiver of its 2024 RFS blending obligations. HF Sinclair Casper Refining filed three SRE petitions seeking waivers of the 2022, 2023 and 2024 blending obligations for its refinery in Casper, Wyoming. HF Sinclair Parco Refining filed two SRE petitions, seeking waivers of the 2022 and 2024 RFS blending obligations for its facility in Sinclair Wyoming, while HF Sinclair Wood Cross Refining filed one SRE petition seeking a waiver of the 2024 blending obligations for its facility in Woods Cross, Utah. Cross Oil refining also filed a single SRE petition seeking a waiver of 2024 blending obligations for its refinery in Smackover, Arkansas. Suncor Denver East Refinery filed six SRE petitions seeking a waiver of the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 blending obligations for its refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, while Suncor Denver West Refinery also filed six SRE petitions seeking a waiver of the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 blending obligations for its facility in Commerce City, Colorado.
The 189 currently pending SRE petitions include two for compliance year 2016; one for compliance year 2017; 38 for compliance year 2018; 29 for compliance year 2019; 30 for compliance year 2020; 20 for compliance year 2021; 18 for compliance year 2022; 19 for compliance year 2023; 26 for compliance year 2024; and six for compliance year 2025.
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The EPA took no action to approve or deny any SRE petitions during the past month.
The EPA’s online SRE data dashboard also includes data on small refineries that have opted into the agency’s alternative renewable identification number (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance year. According to the EPA’s online data dashboard, 17 small refineries are participating in the alternative RIN retirement schedule, with the total RVO those refineries at 880 million RINs. A total of 540 million RINs have been retired under the alternative retirement schedule as of June 18. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 340 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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