§ 80.1428 General requirements for RIN distribution.

(a) RINs assigned to volumes of renewable fuel or RNG. (1) Except as provided in §§ 80.1429 and 80.125(d), no person can separate a RIN that has been assigned to a volume of renewable fuel or RNG pursuant to § 80.1426(e).

(2) An assigned RIN cannot be transferred to another person without simultaneously transferring a volume of renewable fuel or RNG to that same person.

(3) Assigned gallon-RINs with a K code of 1 can be transferred to another person based on the following:

(i) Except for RNG, no more than 2.5 assigned gallon-RINs with a K code of 1 can be transferred to another person with every gallon of renewable fuel transferred to that same person.