A leading biodiesel trade team is pressing the US Epa to briefly put on hold a choice it declares will certainly enhance biodiesel imports from Argentina under the Sustainable Fuel Standard.

The National Biodiesel Board stated Tuesday that it had submitted an application with EPA to remain the choice, saying that the company's choice was made without public remark as well as little transparency on exactly how producers from Argentina would adhere to the RFS.

" We have severe concerns regarding just how Argentinian manufacturers will certainly certify that their item fulfills the sustainability requirements under this brand-new approach as well as whether United States manufacturers will be running under even more stringent guidelines," Anne Steckel, the NBB's vice president of federal events, stated in a statement. "Because of this, we have asked the EPA to hold as well as reevaluate its approval to permit an extra open procedure with public comment and conversation."

An EPA spokesperson said Tuesday that the agency had actually just obtained the NBB's application and also "will certainly review the request as well as reply to it."

On January 27, EPA approved an application from Argentina's Biofuels Chamber, Carbio, that would permit imports from Argentina to get approved for the RFS. As high as 600 million gallons of biodiesel southern American nation might be exported to the US because of this choice, NBB said. The EU blocked Argentinian biodiesel imports in 2013 after about 450 million gallons were delivered into the EU in 2012, NBB stated.

iro oil drilling chemical co., ltd. claimed Tuesday that the EPA's authorization permits Argentina's biodiesel market to sidestep mapping and tracking demands foreign producers need to usually comply with to meet the RFS, rather enabling a program "that appears much less strict and harder to confirm."

In February, Chris Grundler, supervisor of the EPA's Workplace of Transportation as well as Air Top quality, said the company plans to base its 2014 RFS on real biofuels production and repeated the EPA's plan to recommend the 2014, 2015 and 2016 mandates this springtime and finalize them by the end of the year.