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United States                                              Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Environmental Protection                                                   EPA-420-B-12-022d
Agency                                                                 November 2012
                                   EMTS System Changes


The following EMTS system changes are planned for upcoming releases of the EMTS.


Version 2.2 - Scheduled for release on December 15, 2012

•   Effective December 15, 2012, a new QA check will be enabled in EMTS 2.2 so that each submission shall
    use a single RIN year across its transactions.

    For example, a submission comprised of two transactions: one Buy transaction and one Sell transaction
    for the purchase and sale of 2012 RINs respectively. This submission will pass the new QA check.
    However, if the same submission includes a buy of 2012 RINs and a sale of 2011 RINs, then the
    submission will fail the new QA check. In this last example, two submissions will be required in order for
    these transactions to  be submitted to EMTS, one submission for the buy of the 2012 RINs and one
    submission for the sale of the 2011  RINs.

    For submissions that include Generate transactions, the year in the Production Date field is derived as
    being the RIN Year. This means that you cannot generate 2013 RINs (e.g., Production Date = 1/5/2013)
    and sell 2012 RINs in the same submission.

    NOTE: This QA check applies to XML submissions AND the EMTS web application. The EMTS web
    application will be modified to utilize this QA check through changes to the user interface.

Questions?

Please send all questions to support@epamts-support.com.

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