3.D: Kansas

The state’s fuel quality regulations adopt the 2011 version of National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130 as the state’s gasoline standard, except for section 2.1.2 of the Handbook’s Uniform Engine Fuels and Automotive Lubricants Regulation. That section (in the 2011 version of the Handbook) caps the ethanol content allowed in gasoline to 10%: exception of the section enables sale of E15 in the state. Furthermore, requirement in the state’s weights and measures law that the state’s fuel quality regulations follow, “insofar as practicable,” federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Act waivers effectively extends the EPA’s E15 partial waiver into the state’s regulations.

Adoption of Handbook 130 also entails: