EPA: 8 new SRE petitions filed, 169 SRE petitions now pending
SOURCE: U.S. EPA
May 16, 2025
BY Erin Voegele
The U.S. EPA on May 15 published data that shows eight new small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard in the past month. According to the agency, 169 SRE petitions are now pending.
The eight newly filed SRE petitions include three petitions filed by HF Sinclair Wood Cross Refining seeking waivers of the 2021, 2022 and 2023 RFS renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for its facility in Wood Cross, Utah; two petitions filed by Alon USA seeking waivers of the 2023 and 2024 RVOs for its facility in Big Spring, Texas; one SRE petition filed by Alon Refning Krotz Springs seeking a waiver of the 2024 RVOs for its facility in Krotz Springs, Louisiana; and two SRE petitions filed by Dalek Refining seeking a waiver of the 2023 and 2024 RVOs for its facility in Tyler, Texas.
The 169 currently pending SRE petitions include two for compliance year 2016; one for compliance year 2017; 38 for compliance year 2018; 27 for compliance year 2019; 28 for compliance year 2020; 18 for compliance year 2021; 14 for compliance year 2022; 16 for compliance year 2023; 19 for compliance year 2024; and six for compliance year 2025.
The EPA took no action to approve or deny any SRE petitions during the past month.
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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 May 15. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 340 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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