April 18, 2017
To: EPA Administrator
We are writing to you today to ask for your support of a prospective customer of ours; Corn Oil One. Corn Oil One has attempted to build a new market for our ethanol co-products, specifically, distillers corn oil.
Corn Oil One refines oil so that more biodiesel plants can use it to make renewable fuels. Corn Oil One has been put into the bio-intermediary category in the RENEWABLES ENHANCEMENT AND GROWTH SUPPORT RULE; PROPOSED RULE, 81 Fed. Reg. 80,828 (Nov. 16, 2016).
The EPA has been in a rulemaking process for more than two years and Corn Oil One has arbitrarily been put on the sidelines while soy and canola processors, doing the same refining of oils, are allowed to participate in the market.
We believe it is in the best interests of our ethanol plants, and of the entire ethanol industry, that EPA immediately allows Corn Oil One to participate in the RFS as a qualified feedstock for Biodiesel D4 RINS.
Derek Peine Western Plains Energy
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Dwayne Br%irs ICM Biofuels
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