5900-322 Gasoline Sulfur Credit Transfer/Conversion Report

OMB Control No. 2060-0437

Facility Gasoline Sulfur Annual Report Instructions

Gasoline Sulfur Credit Transfer/Conversion Report

Report Form ID: GSF0200

Use Overhead ID: OH-GSF01

E xpires 05-31-2017

No.	Field Name	Units	Field Formats, Codes, & Special Instructions
8.	Creation Year		YYYY; Number. The year the original credits were generated.
9.	A/C Type		AAA; Character. Allotment/Credit (A/C) Type. Enter the appropriate credit description code from the following list. CC0: original credit CC1: credit transferred once CC2: credit transferred twice CA0: original credit created from allotment CA1: credit from allotment transferred once CA2: credit from allotment transferred twice Sellers – enter the credit description code which describes the credits as you had owned them. Buyers – Inter-company transactions must increment the credit description code to the next value; the value as you will own them. (e.g. if you purchased 10 CC0 credits, you will own them as 10 CC1 credits). Intra-company transactions are not incremented.
10.	Transaction Date		MM/DD/YYYY; Character. The date the credit transaction was completed.
11.	Transaction Type		AAA; Character. Indicate whether you are the buyer (receiver) or the seller (source) of credits in this transaction. BUY: buyer (receiver) SEL: seller (source)
12.	Transaction Quantity	ppm- gallons	999999999999; Number. Credits involved in the transaction.
13.	Partner CoID		AAAA; Character. The Company ID for the entity you have conducted the transaction with.

A company must submit a separate Credit Transfer/Conversion Report for each transaction of credits it conducts during a given averaging year. Also, a single transaction may be of only one credit type for a single creation year.

14.

Partner FacID

AAAAA; Character. The Facility ID for the entity you have conducted the transaction with. When converting credits back into allotments use '00000'

Electronic Submission Sample Record: GSF0200,O,02/21/2001,2000,Y,1234,12345,2000,CC0,11/14/2000,SEL,330,4321,54321

Examples:

1. Transferring credits

A. Inter-Company: Transfer of Credits from one company’s facility to another company’s facility.

Facility 12345 of company 1111 transfers 25000, 2004, credits which have been previously transfer once before (CC1) to facility 54321of company 2222 on October 25, 2005. Following are samples of GSF0200 -- Gasoline Sulfur Credit Transfer/Conversion Reports for the transaction described. Note that this transaction requires the incrementing of the credit type by the buyer.

Facility 12345, Company 1111

GSF0200,O,02/20/2006,2005,,1111,12345,2004,CC1,10/25/2005,SEL,25000,2222,54321

Facility 54321, Company 2222

GSF0200,O,02/19/2006,2005,,2222,54321,2004,CC2,10/25/2005,BUY,25000,1111,12345

B. Intra-Company: Transfer of credits from facility(a) to facility(b) within the same company.

Facility 12345 of company 1111 transfers 25000, 2004, credits which have been previously transfer once before (CC1) to facility 67890 in the same company on October 25, 2005. Following are samples of GSF0200 -- Gasoline Sulfur Credit Transfer/Conversion Reports for the transaction described. Note that no incrementing of the credit type is required by the buyer.

Facility 12345, Company 1111

GSF0200,O,02/20/2006,2005,,1111,12345,2004,CC1,10/25/2005,SEL,25000,1111,67890

Facility 67890, Company 1111

GSF0200,O,02/19/2006,2005,,1111,67890,2004,CC1,10/25/2005,BUY,25000,1111,12345

2. Converting allotments into credits (2005 and later).

Company 1111 converts 10000, 2003, Type A original (AA0) allotments into credits assigned to facility 12345 on July 4, 2005. The company transaction is reported on a GSC0200 -- Gasoline

Sulfur Allotment Transfer/Conversion Report while the facility transaction is reported on a GSF0200

Gasoline Sulfur Credit Transfer/Conversion Report. Following are the sample reports.

Company 1111

See the corresponding company report example with form GSC0200.

Facility 12345

GSF0200,O,02/21/2006,2005,,1111,12345,2003,CA0,07/04/2005,BUY,10000,1111,00000

In addition to the GSF0200 and GSC0200 reports, the company and facility would also reflect the conversion of allotments into credits in the GSC0100, Gasoline Sulfur Allotment Banking Report and GSF0100, Gasoline Sulfur Credit Banking & Allotment Generation Report respectively. The banking reports, however, would report the net result of all transactions, by allotment/credit type and creation date, that took place over the entire averaging period.

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