I don't know much about the state laws or local bylaws, but here is the federal picture: The EPA requires registation of all fuel producers for non-standard fuels, that is including biodiesel. They also require testing of these fuels. They claim that even though federal funds were used to test the only sample that has been processed to date, they will not allow this public domain information to be used unless the user buys the rights from a company set up by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. This company (the NBB) is supposed to be a non-profit, but they require usury fees for small producers, such that it will increase your costs by a dollar a gallon or so. The EPA says they will fine small producers up to $25,000 a day if they find your are putting biodiesel fuel into "commerce", meaning selling it or bartering it. The cost of testing a single sample is expected to be about $1,000,000, according to the EPA. The EPA says there are no further grants available for this testing costs. The EPA doen't care about issues like quality, ASTM testing, etc., but wants to see the receipt for the purchase of the rights to use the one sample. The NBB requires thoussands of dollars in fees per year, testing, and a signed committment to pay $100,000 within 30 days as a cash bond if you are late with your quarterly fees or are planning to get out of the business. The bond will be returned by the year 2015, without interest, if the NBB feels they have recovered sufficient return on their (grant sponsored) investment. Otherwise, they keep some or all of the bond. In other words, Archer-Daniels-Midland has this entire area sewed up and small producers should not apply. The EPA official says that I should never have started making biodiesel in the first place, and am subject to retroactive fines back to the day I first started paying the road tax.
If you want to find out what to do about this, write back. Tom Leue Homestead Inc. Yellow Biodiesel ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/NsdPZD/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
