Subd. 1. Applicability.

A person responsible for the product must meet the specifications in this section. The specifications apply to petroleum products processed, held, stored, imported, transferred, distributed, offered for distribution, offered for sale or use, or sold in Minnesota.

Subd. 2. Coordination with departments of revenue and agriculture.

The petroleum product specifications in this section are intended to match the definitions and specifications in sections 41A.09 and 296A.01. Petroleum products named in this section are defined in section 296A.01.

Subd. 3. Gasoline.

1. (a) Gasoline that is not blended with ethanol must not be contaminated with water or other impurities and must comply with ASTM specification D 4814-96. Gasoline that is not blended with ethanol must also comply with the volatility requirements in Code of Federal Regulations, title 40, part 80.

2. (b) After gasoline is sold, transferred, or otherwise removed from a refinery or terminal, a person responsible for the product:

   1. (1) may blend the gasoline with agriculturally derived ethanol as provided in subdivision 4;
   2. (2) shall not blend the gasoline with any oxygenate other than denatured, agriculturally derived ethanol;
   3. (3) shall not blend the gasoline with other petroleum products that are not gasoline or denatured, agriculturally derived ethanol;
   4. (4) shall not blend the gasoline with products commonly and commercially known as casinghead gasoline, absorption gasoline, condensation gasoline, drip gasoline, or natural gasoline; and
   5. (5) may blend the gasoline with a detergent additive, an antiknock additive, or an additive designed to replace tetra-ethyl lead, that is registered by the EPA.

Subd. 4. Gasoline blended with ethanol.

1. (a) Gasoline may be blended with up to ten percent, by volume, agriculturally derived, denatured ethanol that complies with the requirements of subdivision 5.

2. (b) A gasoline-ethanol blend must:

   1. (1) comply with the volatility requirements in Code of Federal Regulations, title 40, part 80;
   2. (2) comply with ASTM specification D 4814-96, or the gasoline base stock from which a gasoline-ethanol blend was produced must comply with ASTM specification D 4814-96; and
   3. (3) not be blended with casinghead gasoline, absorption gasoline, condensation gasoline, drip gasoline, or natural gasoline after the gasoline-ethanol blend has been sold, transferred, or otherwise removed from a refinery or terminal.

Subd. 5. Denatured ethanol.

Denatured ethanol that is to be blended with gasoline must be agriculturally derived and must comply with ASTM specification D 4806-95b. This includes the requirement that ethanol may be denatured only as specified in Code of Federal Regulations, title 27, parts 20 and 21.

Subd. 6. Gasoline blended with oxygenate.

1. (a) A person responsible for the product shall comply with the following requirements:

   1. (1) after July 1, 2000, gasoline containing in excess of one-third of one percent, in total, of the oxygenates listed in paragraph (b) may not be sold or offered for sale at any time in this state; and
   2. (2) after July 1, 2005, gasoline containing any of the oxygenates listed in paragraph (b) may not be sold or offered for sale in this state.

2. (b) The oxygenates prohibited under paragraph (a) are:

   1. (1) methyl tertiary butyl ether, as defined in section 296A.01, subdivision 34;
   2. (2) ethyl tertiary butyl ether, as defined in section 296A.01, subdivision 18; or
   3. (3) tertiary amyl methyl ether.
3. (c) Gasoline that is blended with an oxygenate, other than denatured ethanol, must comply with ASTM specification D 4814-96. Oxygenates, other than denatured ethanol, must not be blended into gasoline after the gasoline has been sold, transferred, or otherwise removed from a refinery or terminal.

Subd. 7. Heating fuel oil.

Heating fuel oil must comply with ASTM specification D 396-96.

Subd. 8. Diesel fuel oil.

Diesel fuel oil must comply with ASTM specification D 975-96a.

Subd. 9. Kerosene.

Kerosene must comply with ASTM specification D 3699-96a.

Subd. 10. Aviation gasoline.

Aviation gasoline must comply with ASTM specification D 910-96.

Subd. 11. Aviation turbine fuel, jet fuel.

Aviation turbine fuel and jet fuel must comply with ASTM specification D 1655-96c.

Subd. 12. Gas turbine fuel oil.

Fuel oil for use in nonaviation gas turbine engines must comply with ASTM specification D 2880-96a.

Subd. 13. E85.

A blend of ethanol and gasoline, containing at least 60 percent ethanol and not more than 85 percent ethanol, produced for use as a motor fuel in alternative fuel vehicles as defined in section 296A.01, subdivision 5, must comply with ASTM specification D 5798-96.

Subd. 14. M85.

A blend of methanol and gasoline, containing at least 85 percent methanol, produced for use as a motor fuel in alternative fuel vehicles as defined in section 296A.01, subdivision 5, must comply with ASTM specification D 5797-96.