Cal. Code Regs. tit. 17 § 95102
"Absorbent circulation pump" means a pump commonly powered by natural gas pressure that circulates the absorbent liquid between the absorbent regenerator and natural gas contactor.
"Accuracy" means the closeness of the agreement between the result of the measurement and the true value of the particular quantity (or a reference value determined empirically using internationally accepted and traceable calibration materials and standard methods), taking into account both random and systematic factors.
"Acid gas" means hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) contaminants that are separated from sour natural gas by an acid gas removal.
"Acid gas removal unit (AGR)" means a process unit that separates hydrogen sulfide and/or carbon dioxide from sour natural gas using liquid or solid absorbents or membrane separators.
"Acid gas removal vent stack emissions" mean the acid gas separated from the acid gas absorbing medium (e.g., an amine solution) and released with methane and other light hydrocarbons to the atmosphere or a flare.
"Adverse emissions data verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement, or that the emissions data submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors as defined pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the requirement to fix such errors pursuant to section 95131(b)(9), or both.
"Adverse product data verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement, or that the covered product data submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors as defined pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the requirements to fix such errors pursuant to section 95131(b)(9), or both.
"Adverse verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement, or that the emissions or covered product data submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors as defined pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the requirements to fix such errors pursuant to section 95131(b)(9), or both. This definition applies to the adverse emissions data verification statement and the adverse product data verification statement.
"Agricultural waste" means waste produced on land used for horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding and keeping, or grazing land, meadow land, osier land (growing willow), market gardens and nursery grounds as a result of agricultural activity.
"Air injected flare" means a flare in which air is blown into the base of a flare stack to induce complete combustion of gas.
"Annual" means with a frequency of once a year; unless otherwise noted, annual events such as reporting requirements will be based on the calendar year.
"API" means the American Petroleum Institute.
"API Gravity" means a scale used to reflect the specific gravity (SG) of a fluid such as crude oil, water, or natural gas. The API gravity is calculated as [(141.5/SG) - 131.5], where SG is the specific gravity of the fluid at 60°F, and where API refers to the American Petroleum Institute.
"AQMD/APCD" or "air district" or "air quality management district" or "air pollution control district" means any district created or continued in existence pursuant to the provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section 40000) of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code.
"ARB" means the California Air Resources Board.
"ARB ID" means, for the purposes of this article, the unique identification number assigned to each facility, supplier, and electric power entity that reports GHG emissions to the ARB.
"ARB offset credit" is as defined in the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Artificial island" is a plot of land or other structure constructed on a body of water to support onshore petroleum or natural gas production.
"Asphalt" means a dark brown-to-black cement-like material obtained by petroleum processing and containing bitumens as the predominant component. It includes crude asphalt as well as the following finished products: cements, fluxes, the asphalt content of emulsions (exclusive of water), and petroleum distillates blended with asphalt to make cutback asphalts.
"Asset-controlling supplier" means any entity that owns or operates inter-connected electricity generating facilities or serves as an exclusive marketer for these facilities even though it does not own them, and is assigned a supplier-specific identification number and system emission factor by ARB for the wholesale electricity procured from its system and imported into California. Asset controlling suppliers are considered specified sources.
"Assigned emissions level" means an amount of emissions, in CO2e, assigned to the reporting entity by the Executive Officer under the requirements of section 95103(g).
"Associated gas" or "produced gas" means a natural gas that is produced in association with the production of crude oil.
"ASTM" means the American Society of Testing and Materials.
"Atomic hydrogen content" means the mass fraction of all hydrogen atoms in a gas, mixture of gases, or a mixture of other materials.
"Authorized project designee" means an entity authorized by an Offset Project Operator to act on behalf of the Offset Project Operator.
"Aviation gasoline" means a complex mixture of volatile hydrocarbons, with or without additives, suitably blended to be used in aviation reciprocating engines. Specifications can be found in ASTM Specification D910-07a, "Standard Specification for Aviation Gasolines" (2007).
"Balancing authority" means the responsible entity that integrates resource plans ahead of time, maintains load-interchange-generation balance within a balancing authority area, and supports interconnection frequency in real time.
"Balancing authority area" means the collection of generation, transmission, and loads within the metered boundaries of a balancing authority. A balancing authority maintains load-resource balance within this area.
"Barrel" means a volume equal to 42 U.S. gallons.
"Basin" means geological provinces as defined by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Geologic Note: AAPG-CSD Geological Provinces Code Map: AAPG Bulletin, Prepared by Richard F. Meyer, Laurie G. Wallace, and Fred J. Wagner, Jr., Volume 75, Number 10 (October 1991), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Best available data and methods" means ARB methods for emissions calculations set forth in this article where reasonably feasible, or facility fuel use and other facility process data used in conjunction with ARB-provided emission factors and other data, or other industry standard methods for calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
"Bias" means systematic error, resulting in measurements that will be either consistently low or high relative to the reference value.
"Bigeneration unit" means a unit that simultaneously generates electricity and useful thermal energy from the same fuel source but without waste heat recovery. An example of bigeneration includes a boiler generating steam that is split into two streams, and one stream powers a steam turbine to generate electricity, while the other stream is used for other industrial, commercial, heating and cooling purposes that are not in support of or a part of the electricity generation system.
"Biodiesel" means a diesel fuel substitute produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meet the registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under section 211 of the Clean Air Act. It includes biodiesel that is all of the following:
Registered as a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive under 40 CFR Part 79 ;
A mono-alkyl ester;
Meets American Society for Testing and Material designation ASTM D 6751-08 "Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel Blendstock (B100) for Middle Distillate Fuels" (2008), which is hereby incorporated by reference;
Intended for use in engines that are designated to run on conventional diesel fuel; and
Derived from nonpetroleum renewable resources.
"Biofuel production facility" means a production facility that produces one or more of the following biomass-derived transportation fuels: ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, rendered animal fat, or vegetable oil.
"Biogas" means gas that is produced from the breakdown of organic material in the absence of oxygen. Biogas is produced in processes including anaerobic digestion, anaerobic decomposition, and thermochemical decomposition. These processes are applied to biodegradable biomass materials, such as manure, sewage, municipal solid waste, green waste, and waste from energy crops, to produce landfill gas, digester gas, and other forms of biogas.
"Biogenic portions of CO2 emissions" means carbon dioxide emissions generated as the result of biomass combustion from combustion units.
"Biomass" means non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material originating from plants, animals and micro-organisms, including products, byproducts, residues and waste from agriculture, forestry and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material. For the purpose of this article, biomass includes both California Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) eligible and non-eligible biomass as defined by the California Energy Commission.
"Biomass-derived fuels" or "biomass fuels" or "biofuels" or "biomass-based fuels" means fuels derived from biomass.
"Biomethane" means biogas that meets pipeline quality natural gas standards.
"Blowdown" means the act of emptying or depressurizing a vessel. This may also refer to the discarded material such as blowdown water from a boiler or cooling tower.
"Blowdown vent stack emissions" mean natural gas and/or CO2 released due to maintenance and/or blowdown operations including compressor blowdown and emergency shut-down (ESD) system testing.
"Boiler" means a closed vessel or arrangement of vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which water is heated to produce hot water or steam.
"Bone dry short ton" means an amount of material that weighs 2,000 pounds at zero percent moisture content.
"Bottom ash" means ash that collects at the bottom of a combustion chamber.
"Bottoming cycle" means a type of cogeneration system in which the energy input to the system is first applied to a useful thermal energy application or process, and at least some of the reject heat emerging from the application or process is then used for electricity production.
"British thermal unit" or "Btu" means the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit at about 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
"BTEX" means gaseous compounds of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylenes.
"Bulk transfer/terminal system" means a fuel distribution system consisting of refineries, pipelines, vessels, and terminals. Fuel storage and blending facilities that are not fed by pipeline or vessel are considered outside the bulk transfer system.
"Busbar" means a power conduit of a facility with electricity generating units that serves as the starting point for the electricity transmission system.
"Business-as-usual scenario" means the set of conditions reasonably expected to occur within the offset project boundary in the absence of the financial incentives provided by offset credits, taking into account all current laws and regulations, as well as current economic and technological trends.
"Butane" or "n-Butane" is a paraffinic straight-chain hydrocarbon with molecular formula C4H10.
"Butylene" or "n-Butylene" means an olefinic straight-chain hydrocarbon with molecular formula C4H8.
"Bypass dust" means discarded dust from the bypass system dedusting unit of suspension preheater, precalciner and grate preheater kilns, consisting of fully calcined kiln feed material.
"Calcination" means the thermal decomposition of carbonate minerals, such as calcium carbonate (the principal mineral in limestone) to form calcium oxide in a cement kiln.
"Calcine" means to heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces.
"Calendar year" means the time period from January 1 through December 31.
"Calibrated bag" means a flexible, non-elastic, anti-static bag of a calibrated volume that can be affixed to an emitting source such that the emissions inflate the bag to its calibrated volume.
"California balancing authority" means a balancing authority with control over a balancing authority area primarily located in the State of California. A California balancing authority is responsible for the operation of the transmission grid within its metered boundaries which may extend beyond the geographical boundaries of the State of California.
"California Climate Action Registry" or "CCAR" means the entity established pursuant to former Health and Safety Code Section 42800 et seq.
"California consignee" means the person or entity in California to whom the shipment is to be delivered.
"California Energy Commission" or "CEC" means the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
"California Independent System Operator" or "CAISO" means the Independent System Operator that serves California EDUs, which operates competitive wholesale electricity markets, manages the reliability of the CAISO-controlled transmission grid, provides open access to transmission, and performs long-term planning. CAISO markets include energy (day-ahead and real-time), ancillary services, congestion revenue rights, and the Energy Imbalance Market (EIM).
"California Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending" or "CARBOB" has the same meaning as defined in title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, section 2260(a).
"Cap-and-trade regulation" or "cap-and-trade program" means ARB's regulation establishing the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms set forth in title 17, California Code of Regulations, Chapter 1, Subchapter 10, article 5 (commencing with section 95800).
"Carbon dioxide" or "CO2" means the most common of the six primary greenhouse gases, consisting on a molecular level of a single carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.
"Carbon dioxide equivalent" or "CO2 equivalent" or "CO2e" means the number of metric tons of CO2 emissions with the same global warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas when calculated using the individual global warming potentials as specified in the "global warming potential" definition of this article.
"Carbon dioxide supplier" means:
"Carbonate" means compounds containing the radical CO3-2. Upon calcination, the carbonate radical decomposes to evolve carbon dioxide (CO2). Common carbonates consumed in the mineral industry include calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or calcite; magnesium carbonate (MgCO3) or magnesite; and calcium-magnesium carbonate (CaMg(CO3)2) or dolomite.
"Carbonate-based raw material" means any of the following materials used in the manufacture of glass: Limestone, dolomite, soda ash, barium carbonate, potassium carbonate, lithium carbonate, and strontium carbonate.
"Catalyst" means a substance added to a chemical reaction, which facilitates or causes the reaction, and is not consumed by the reaction.
"CBOB-summer" or "conventional blendstock for oxygenate blending-summer" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of conventional-summer.
"CBOB-winter" or "conventional blendstock for oxygenate blendingwinter" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of conventionalwinter.
"Cement" means a building material that is produced by heating mixtures of limestone and other minerals or additives at high temperatures in a rotary kiln to form clinker, followed by cooling and grinding with blended additives. Finished cement is a powder used with water, sand and gravel to make concrete and mortar.
"Cement kiln dust" or "CKD" means the fine-grained, solid, highly alkaline waste removed from cement kiln exhaust gas by air pollution control devices. CKD consists of partly calcined kiln feed material and includes all dust from cement kilns and bypass systems including bottom ash and bypass dust.
"Centrifugal compressor" means any equipment that increases the pressure of a process natural gas or CO2 by centrifugal action, employing rotating movement of the driven shaft.
"Centrifugal compressor dry seals" mean a series of rings around the compressor shaft where it exits the compressor case that operate mechanically under the opposing forces to prevent natural gas or CO2 from escaping to the atmosphere.
"Centrifugal compressor wet seal degassing vent emissions" means emissions that occur when the high-pressure oil barriers for centrifugal compressors are depressurized to release absorbed natural gas or CO2. High-pressure oil is used as a barrier against escaping gas in centrifugal compressor seals.
"Certification" or "certify" refers to the procedure in 40 CFR § 98.4(e), as required for reports submitted to ARB under this article.
"Chain of title" means the sequence of historical transfers of title to a fuel from the producer to the reporting entity.
"City gate" means a location at which natural gas ownership or control passes from one party to another, neither of which is the ultimate consumer. In this article, in keeping with common practice, the term refers to a point or measuring station at which a local gas distribution utility receives gas from a natural gas pipeline company or transmission system. Meters at the city gate station measure the flow of natural gas into the local distribution company system and typically are used to measure local distribution company system sendout to customers.
"Coal" means all solid fuels classified as anthracite, bituminous, sub-bituminous, or lignite by the American Society for Testing and Materials Designation ASTM D388-05 "Standard Classification of Coals by Rank" (2005), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Coal coke" means a solid residue high in carbon content produced by the destructive distillation of coal at high temperatures in either a byproduct coke oven battery or a non-recovery coke oven battery.
"Cogeneration" means an integrated system that produces electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the original fuel energy. Cogeneration must involve generation of electricity and useful thermal energy and some form of waste heat recovery. Some examples of cogeneration include:
"Cogeneration system" means individual cogeneration components including the prime mover (heat engine), generator, heat recovery, and electrical interconnection, configured into an integrated system that provides sequential or simultaneous generation of multiple forms of useful energy (usually mechanical and thermal), at least one form of which the facility consumes on-site or makes available to other users for an end-use other than electricity generation.
"Cogeneration unit" means a unit that produces electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the original fuel energy and waste heat recovery.
"Coke (petroleum)" means a solid residue consisting mainly of carbon which results from the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons in processes such as coking and fluid coking. This includes catalyst coke deposited on a catalyst during the refining process which must be burned off in order to regenerate the catalyst.
"Combustion emissions" means greenhouse gas emissions occurring during the exothermic reaction of a fuel with oxygen.
"Combustion source" means a source of emissions resulting from combustion.
"Commercial propane" means liquefied petroleum gas that has a wide mixture of gases that can sustain combustion as defined by ASTM D1835-05 "Standard Specification for Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gases" (2005), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Common control" means having common "operational control" as defined herein.
"Compliance instrument" is as defined in the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Compliance obligation" means the quantity of verified reported emissions or assigned emissions for which an entity must submit compliance instruments to ARB.
"Compliance offset protocol" means an offset protocol adopted by the Board.
"Compliance period" means the period for which the compliance obligation is calculated for covered entities pursuant to the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Component" for the purposes of sections 95150 to 95157 of this article means each metal to metal joint or seal of non-welded connection separated by a compression gasket, screwed thread (with or without thread sealing compound), metal to metal compression, or fluid barrier through which natural gas or liquid can escape to the atmosphere.
"Compressed natural gas" or "CNG" means natural gas in high-pressure containers that is highly compressed (though not to the point of liquefaction), typically to pressures ranging from 2900 to 3600 psi.
"Compressor" means any machine for raising the pressure of a natural gas or CO2 by drawing in low pressure natural gas and discharging significantly higher pressure natural gas or CO2.
"Condensate" means hydrocarbon and other liquid, including both water and hydrocarbon liquids, separated from natural gas that condenses due to changes in the temperature, pressure, or both, and remains liquid at storage conditions.
"Conflict of interest" means a situation in which, because of financial or other activities or relationships with other persons or organizations, a person or body is unable or potentially unable to render an impartial verification statement of a potential client's greenhouse gas emissions data report, or the person or body's objectivity in performing verification services is or might be otherwise compromised.
"Consignee" means the same as "California consignee."
"Continuous bleed" means a continuous flow of pneumatic supply natural gas to the process control device (e.g. level control, temperature control, pressure control) where the supply gas pressure is modulated by the process condition, and then flows to the valve controller where the signal is compared with the process set-point to adjust gas pressure in the valve actuator.
"Continuous emissions monitoring system" or "CEMS" means the total equipment required to obtain a continuous measurement of a gas concentration or emission rate from combustion or industrial processes.
"Continuous physical transmission path" means the full transmission path shown in the physical path table of a single NERC e-tag from the first point of receipt closest to the generation source to the final point of delivery closest to the final sink. This is one criterion to establish direct delivery.
"Conventional-summer" means finished gasoline formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which do not meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under 40 CFR § 80.40, but which meet summer RVP standards required under 40 CFR § 80.27 (July 2011), which is hereby incorporated by reference or as specified by the state.
NOTE: This category excludes conventional gasoline for oxygenate blending (CBOB) as well as other blendstock.
"Conventional wells" mean crude oil or gas wells in producing fields that do not employ hydraulic fracturing to produce commercially viable quantities of crude oil or natural gas.
"Conventional-winter" means finished gasoline formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which do not meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under 40 CFR § 80.40 or the summer RVP standards required under 40 CFR § 80.27 or as specified by the state.
NOTE: This category excludes conventional blendstock for oxygenate blending (CBOB) as well as other blendstock.
"Correctable errors" means errors identified by the verification team that affect covered emissions data or covered product data in the submitted emissions data report that result from a nonconformance with this article. Differences that, in the professional judgment of the verification team, are the result of differing but reasonable methods of truncation or rounding or averaging, where a specific procedure is not prescribed by this article, are not considered errors and therefore do not require correction.
"Covered emissions" mean all emissions included in a compliance obligation under sections 95852 through 95852.2 of the cap-and-trade regulation, regardless of whether the cap-and-trade regulation imposes a compliance obligation for the data year.
"Covered product data" means all product data included in the allocation of allowances under sections 95870, 95890, and 95891 of the capand-trade regulation, regardless of whether the cap-and-trade regulation imposes a compliance obligation for the data year.
"Cracking" means the process of breaking down larger molecules into smaller molecules, utilizing catalysts and/or elevated temperatures and pressures.
"Crude oil" means a mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in the liquid phase in natural underground reservoirs and remains liquid at atmospheric pressure after passing through surface separating facilities. Depending upon the characteristics of the crude stream, it may also include any of the following:
Small amounts of hydrocarbons that exist in gaseous phase in natural underground reservoirs but are liquid at atmospheric conditions (temperature and pressure) after being recovered from oil well (casing-head) gas in lease separators and are subsequently commingled with the crude stream without being separately measured. Lease condensate recovered as a liquid from natural gas wells in lease or field separation facilities and later mixed into the crude stream is also included.
Small amounts of non-hydrocarbons, such as sulfur and various metals.
Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar sands, oil sands, gilsonite, and oil shale.
Petroleum products that are received or produced at a refinery and subsequently injected into a crude supply or reservoir by the same refinery owner or operator.
Liquids produced at natural gas processing plants and natural gas fractionating facilities are excluded, unless the produced natural gas liquids are extracted from produced gas, associated gas, and waste gas at a facility and re-injected into barrels of crude oil produced by the same facility. Crude oil is refined to produce a wide array of petroleum products, including heating oils; gasoline, diesel and jet fuels; lubricants; asphalt; ethane, propane, and butane; and many other products used for their energy or chemical content.
"Customer" means a purchaser of electricity not for the purposes of retransmission or resale.
"Customer meter" means natural gas meter, riser, and fittings at residential, commercial, or industrial premise(s).
"Data year" means the calendar year in which emissions occurred.
"De minimis" means those emissions reported for a source or sources that are calculated using alternative methods selected by the operator, subject to the limits specified in section 95103(i).
"Dehydrator" means a device in which a liquid absorbent (including desiccant, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, or triethylene glycol) directly contacts a natural gas stream to absorb water vapor.
"Dehydrator vent emissions" means natural gas and CO2 release from a natural gas dehydrator system absorbent (typically glycol) reboiler or regenerator to the atmosphere or a flare, including stripping natural gas and motive natural gas used in absorbent circulation pumps.
"Delayed cooking" means a process by which heavier crude oil fractions are thermally decomposed under conditions of elevated temperature and pressure to produce a mixture of lighter oils and petroleum coke.
"Delivered electricity" means electricity that was distributed from a PSE and received by a PSE or electricity that was generated, transmitted, and consumed.
"Demethanizer" means the natural gas processing unit that separates methane rich residue gas from the heavier hydrocarbons (e.g., ethane, propane, butane, pentane-plus) in the feed natural gas stream.
"Desiccant" means a material used in solid-bed dehydrators to remove water from raw natural gas by adsorption or absorption. Desiccants include activated alumina, palletized calcium chloride, lithium chloride and granular silica gel material. Wet natural gas is passed through a bed of the granular or pelletized solid adsorbent or absorbent in these dehydrators. As the wet gas contacts the surface of the particles of desiccant material, water is adsorbed on the surface or absorbed and dissolves the surface of these desiccant particles. Passing through the entire desiccant bed, almost all of the water is adsorbed onto or absorbed into the desiccant material, leaving the dry gas to exit the contactor.
"Designated representative" means the person responsible for certifying, signing, and submitting the GHG emissions data report.
"Diesel fuel" means Distillate Fuel No. 1 and Distillate Fuel No. 2, including dyed and nontaxed fuels.
"Direct delivery of electricity" or "directly delivered" means electricity that meets any of the following criteria:
The facility has a first point of interconnection with a California balancing authority;
The facility has a first point of interconnection with distribution facilities used to serve end users within California balancing authority area;
The electricity is scheduled for delivery from the specified source into a California balancing authority via a continuous physical transmission path from interconnection of the facility in the balancing authority in which the facility is located to a sink located in the State of California; or
There is an agreement to dynamically transfer electricity from the facility to a California balancing authority.
"Distillate fuel oil" means a classification for one of the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations and from crackers and hydrotreating process units. The generic term distillate fuel oil includes kerosene (EIA product code 311), kerosene-type jet fuel (EIA product codes 213, 217, and 218), diesel fuels (Diesel Fuels No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4; EIA product codes 465, 466, and 467), and fuel oils (Fuel Oils No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4; EIA product codes 508, 509, and 510).
"Distillate Fuel No. 1" has a maximum distillation temperature of 550°F at the 90 percent recovery point and a minimum flash point of 100°F and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel No. 1 and Fuel Oil No. 1, but excludes kerosene. This fuel is further subdivided into categories of sulfur content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur (less than or equal to 500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur (less than or equal to 15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 2" has a minimum and maximum distillation temperature of 540°F and 640°F at the 90 percent recovery point, respectively, and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel No. 2 and Fuel Oil No. 2. This fuel is further subdivided into categories of sulfur content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur (less than or equal to 500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur (less than or equal to 15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 4" means a distillate fuel oil with a minimum flash point of 131°F made by blending distillate fuel oil and residual fuel oil.
"Distribution pipeline" means a pipeline that is designated as such by the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) in 49 CFR § 192.3.
"District Heating Facility" means a facility that, at a central plant, produces hot water, steam and/or chilled water that is distributed through underground pipes to buildings and facilities connected to the system that are not part of the same facility. District Heating Facility does not include a facility that produces electricity.
"Double-Valve Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B, means a cylinder used for gathering crude oil or condensate samples. The cylinder is provided by a laboratory filled with laboratory grade water which prevents flashing within the cylinder.
"Dry gas" means a natural gas that is produced from gas wells not associated with the production of crude oil.
"E&P Tank" means E&P Tank Version 2.0 for Windows software, copyright 1996-1999 by the American Petroleum Institute and the Gas Research Institute (published 2000).
"EIA" means the Energy Information Administration. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a statistical agency of the United States Department of Energy.
"Electric arc furnace" or "EAF" means a furnace that produces molten steel and heats the charge materials with electric arcs from carbon electrodes. Furnaces that continuously feed direct-reduced iron ore pellets as the primary source of iron are not affected facilities within the scope of this definition.
"Electrical Distribution Utility(ies)" means an entity that owns and/or operates an electrical distribution system, including:
"Electric Power Entity" or "EPE" means those entities specified in section 95101(d) of this article, including electricity importers and exporters; retail providers, including multi-jurisdictional retail providers; the California Department of Water Resources (DWR); the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA); and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).
"Electricity exporter" means electric power entities that deliver exported electricity. The entity that exports electricity is identified on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last segment of the tag's physical path, with the point of receipt located inside the State of California and the point of delivery located outside the State of California. Electricity exporters include Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Entity Scheduling Coordinators serving the EIM market that can result in exports from California.
"Electricity generating facility" means a facility that generates electricity and includes one or more generating units at the same location.
"Electricity generation provider" means a provider of the energy or generation component of electricity services, as distinguished from the provider of transmission and/or distribution service that provides the wires for the transport of electricity. Electricity generation providers may include electricity service providers, community choice aggregators, cogeneration facilities, and other entities in addition to electrical distribution utilities that may provide both generation and transmission/distribution service.
"Electricity generating unit" or "EGU" means any combination of physically connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s), combustion turbine(s), or other prime mover(s) operated together to produce electric power. An EGU may include a unit that generate electricity from fuel combustion or from other renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind.
"Electricity importers" deliver imported electricity. For electricity that is scheduled with a NERC e-Tag to a final point of delivery inside the State of California, the electricity importer is identified on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last segment of the tag's physical path with the point of receipt located outside the State of California and the point of delivery located inside the State of California. For facilities physically located outside the State of California with the first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's transmission and distribution system when the electricity is not scheduled on a NERC e-Tag, the importer is the facility operator or scheduling coordinator. Federal and state agencies are subject to the regulatory authority of ARB under this article and include Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and California Department of Water Resources (DWR). For electricity that is imported into California through the CAISO Energy Imbalance Market, the electricity importer is identified as the EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators and EIM Purchasers serving the EIM market whose transactions result in electricity imports into California.
"Electricity sold into the CAISO markets" means electricity sold into California Independent System Operator (CAISO), markets, including but not limited to the day-ahead market, real time market, integrated forward market, and energy imbalance market. Transactions excluded as CAISO sales pursuant to section 11.29(a)(iii) of the CAISO Fifth Replacement Tariff dated May 1, 2014 do not fall under this definition.
"Electricity transaction" means the purchase, sale, import, export or exchange of electric power.
"Electricity wheeled through California" or "wheeled electricity" means electricity that is generated outside the State of California and delivered into California with the final point of delivery outside California. Electricity wheeled through California is documented on a single NERC e-Tag showing the first point of receipt located outside the State of California, an intermediate point of delivery located inside the State of California, and the final point of delivery located outside the State of California.
"Eligible renewable energy resource" is as defined in section 95802(a) of the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Emission factor" means a unique value for determining an amount of a greenhouse gas emitted for a given quantity of activity (e.g., metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted per barrel of fossil fuel burned.)
"Emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from sources and processes in a facility, including from the combustion of transportation fuels such as natural gas, petroleum products, and natural gas liquids.
"Emissions data report" or "greenhouse gas emissions data report" or "report" means the report prepared by an operator or supplier each year and submitted by electronic means to ARB that provides the information required by this article. The emissions data report is for the submission of required data for the calendar year prior to the year in which the report is due. For example, a 2013 emissions data report would cover emissions and product data for the 2013 calendar year and would be reported in 2014.
"Emissions data verification statement" means the final statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting entity's covered emissions data in their emissions data report is free of material misstatement, and whether the emissions data conforms to the requirements of this article.
"Emulsion" means a mixture of water, crude oil, associated gas, and other components from the oil extraction process that is transferred from an existing platform that is permanently affixed to the ocean floor and that is located outside the distance specified in the "offshore" definition of this article, to an onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility. For purposes of Appendix B, emulsion means a mixture of crude oil, condensate, or produced water in any proportion.
"End user" means a final purchaser of an energy product, such as electricity, thermal energy, or natural gas not for the purposes of retransmission or resale. In the context of natural gas consumption, an "end user" is the point to which natural gas is delivered for consumption.
"Energy Imbalance Market" or "EIM" means the operation of the CAISO's real-time market to manage transmission congestion and optimize procurement of energy to balance supply and demand for the combined CAISO and EIM footprint.
"Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser" or "EIM Purchaser" means, for a given data year an electrical distribution utility that directly or indirectly purchases any electricity through the EIM to serve California load in the data year, and receives allowance allocation in the subsequent year pursuant to section 95892 of the Cap-and-Trade Regulation. An electrical distribution utility is considered to have purchased electricity through the EIM in a given data year if, during any 5-minute interval in the data year, the electrical distribution utility serves California load through imbalance energy purchased directly from the CAISO market. An electrical distribution utility is considered to have purchased electricity through the EIM in a given data year if, during any 5-minute interval in the data year, the electrical distribution utility participates in CAISO markets indirectly through a CAISO scheduling coordinator that meets any part of the electrical distribution utility's California load with imbalance energy.
"Energy Imbalance Market, Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator" or "EIM" Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator means the participating resource owner or operator, or a third-party designated by the resource owner or operator that is certified by the CAISO and enters into the pro forma EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator Agreement, under which it is responsible for meeting the requirements specified in the CAISO Tariff on behalf of the resource owner or operator.
"Enforceable" means the authority for ARB to hold a particular party liable and to take appropriate action if any of the provisions of this article are violated.
"Engineering estimation," for the purposes of sections 95150 to 95157 of this article, means an estimate of emissions based on engineering principles applied to measured and/or approximated physical parameters such as dimensions of containment, actual pressures, actual temperatures, and compositions.
"Enhanced oil recovery" or "EOR" means the use of certain methods such as steam (thermal EOR), water flooding or gas injection into existing wells to increase the recovery of crude oil from a reservoir. In the context of this rule, EOR also applies to injection of critical phase carbon dioxide into a crude oil reservoir to enhance the recovery of oil.
"Enterer" means an entity that imports into California motor vehicle fuel, diesel fuel, fuel ethanol, biodiesel, non-exempt biomass-derived fuel or renewable fuel and who is the importer of record under federal customs law or the owner of fuel upon import into California if the fuel is not subject to federal customs law. Only enterers that import the fuels specified in this definition outside the bulk transfer/terminal system are subject to reporting under the regulation.
"Entity" means a person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, or government agency.
"Equipment" means any stationary article, machine, or other contrivance, or combination thereof, which may cause the issuance or control the issuance of air contaminants; equipment shall not mean portable equipment, tactical support equipment, or electricity generators designated as backup generators in a permit issued by an air pollution control district or air quality management district.
"Equipment leak" means those emissions which could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally-equivalent opening.
"Equipment leak detection" means the process of identifying emissions from equipment, components, and other point sources.
"Ethane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular formula C2H6.
"Ethanol" is an anhydrous alcohol with molecular formula C2H5OH.
"Ethylene" is an olefinic hydrocarbon with molecular formula C2H4.
"Exchange agreement" means a commitment between electricity market participants to swap energy for energy. Exchange transactions do not involve transfers of payment or receipts of money for the full market value of the energy being exchanged, but may include payment for net differences due to market price differences between the two parts of the transaction or to settle minor imbalances.
"Exclusive marketer" means a marketer that has exclusive rights to market electricity for a generating facility or group of generating facilities.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, or his or her delegate.
"Exported electricity" means electricity generated inside the State of California and delivered to serve load located outside the State of California. This includes electricity delivered from a first point of receipt inside California, to the first point of delivery outside California, with a final point of delivery outside the State of California. Exported electricity delivered across balancing authority areas is documented on NERC e-Tags with the first point of receipt located inside the State of California and the final point of delivery located outside the State of California. Exported electricity does not include electricity generated inside the State of California then transmitted outside of California, but with a final point of delivery inside the State of California. Exported electricity does not include electricity generated inside the State of California that is allocated to serve the California retail customers of a multi-jurisdictional retail provider, consistent with a cost allocation methodology approved by the California Public Utilities Commission and the utility regulatory commission of at least one additional state in which the multi-jurisdictional retail provider provides retail electric service.
"External combustion" means fired combustion in which the flame and products are separated from contact with the process fluid to which the energy is delivered. Process fluids may be air, hot water, or hydrocarbons. External combustion equipment may include fired heaters, industrial boilers, and commercial and domestic combustion units.
"Facility," unless otherwise specified in relation to natural gas distribution facilities, gas processing facilities, and onshore petroleum and natural gas production facilities as defined in section 95102(a), means any physical property, plant, building, structure, source, or stationary equipment located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties in actual physical contact or separated solely by a public roadway or other public right-of-way and under common ownership or common control, that emits or may emit any greenhouse gas. Operators of military installations may classify such installations as more than a single facility based on distinct and independent functional groupings within contiguous military properties.
"Facility," with respect to natural gas distribution for the purposes of sections 95150 to 95158 of this article, means the collection of all distribution pipelines and metering-regulating stations that are operated by a local distribution company (LDC) within the State of California that is regulated as a separate operating company by a public utility commission or that are operated as an independent municipally-owned distribution system.
"Facility," with respect to onshore petroleum and natural gas production for the purposes of sections 95150 to 95158 of this article, means all petroleum and natural gas equipment on a well-pad, associated with a well pad or to which emulsion is transferred and CO2 EOR operations that are under common ownership or common control including leased, rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural gas production owner or operator and that are located in a single basin as defined in section 95102(a). When a commonly owned cogeneration plant is within the basin, the cogeneration plant is only considered part of the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility if the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility operator or owner has a greater than fifty percent ownership share in the cogeneration plant. Where a person or entity owns or operates more than one well in a basin, then all onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment associated with all wells that the person or entity owns or operates in the basin would be considered one facility. Onshore natural gas processing equipment as defined in section 95150(a)(3) that is owned and/or operated by the facility owner/operator and located within the same basin, is considered "associated with a well pad" and is included with the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility, unless such equipment is required to be reported as part of a separate onshore petroleum and natural gas processing facility.
"Facility," with respect to onshore natural gas processing for the purposes of sections 95150 to 95158 of this article, means equipment associated with the separation of natural gas liquids (NGLs) or non-methane gases from produced natural gas, including separation of sulfur and carbon dioxide, that processes an annual average throughput of 25 MMscf per day or greater, or whose owner/operator does not also own/operate a production facility in the same basin.
"Farm taps" are pressure regulation stations that deliver gas directly from transmission pipelines to rural customers. In some cases a nearby LDC may handle the billing of the gas to the customer(s).
"Feedstock" means the raw material supplied to a process.
"Field," in the context of oil and gas systems, means oil and gas fields identified in the United States as defined by the Energy Information Administration Oil and Gas Field Code Master List 2008, DOE/EIA 0370(08), January 2009, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Field accuracy assessment" means a test, check, or engineering analysis intended to confirm that a flow meter or other mass or volume measurement device is operating within an acceptable accuracy range. A field accuracy assessment should be conducted in a manner that does not interrupt operations or require removal of the meter or require primary element inspection. The selected method for field accuracy assessment will vary based on meter type and piping system design, and may be performed by the facility operator, a third party meter servicing firm, or the original equipment manufacturer.
"Final point of delivery" means the sink specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the final point of delivery is the location of the load. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the final point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.
"First deliverer of electricity," or "first deliverer" means the owner or operator of an electricity generating facility in California, an electricity importer, or an EIM Purchaser.
"First point of delivery in California" means the first defined point on the transmission system located inside California at which imported electricity and electricity wheeled through California may be measured, consistent with defined points that have been established through the NERC Registry.
"First point of receipt" means the generation source specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the first point of receipt is the location of the individual generating facility or unit, or group of generating facilities or units. Imported electricity and wheeled electricity are disaggregated by the first point of receipt on the NERC e-Tag.
"Flare" means a combustion device, whether at ground level or elevated, that uses an open flame to burn combustible gases with combustion air provided by uncontrolled ambient air around the flame.
"Flare combustion" means unburned hydrocarbons including CH4, CO2, and N2O emissions resulting from the incomplete combustion of gas in flares.
"Flare combustion efficiency" means the fraction of liquid and gases sent to the flare, on a volume or mole basis, that is combusted at the flare burner tip.
"Flare stack emissions" means CO2 and N2O from partial combustion of hydrocarbon gas sent to a flare plus CH4 emissions resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon gas in the flare.
"Flash Analysis," for purposes of Appendix B, means laboratory methodologies for measuring the volume and composition of gases released from liquids, including the molecular weight of the total gaseous sample, the weight percent of individual compounds, and a Gas-Oil Ratio or Gas-Water Ratio required to calculate the specified emission rates as described in Section 10 of Appendix B.
"Flash point" of a volatile liquid is the lowest temperature at which it can vaporize to form an ignitable mixture in air.
"Flashing," for purposes of Appendix B, means the release of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide from liquid to surrounding air when the liquid changes temperature and pressure, also known as phase change.
"Floating-Piston Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B, means a cylinder used for gathering produced water. The cylinder contains an internal piston controlled by gas pressure. The piston prevents sample liquid from flashing within the sampling cylinder and provides a means of extracting the sample liquid.
"Flow meter" means a measurement device consisting of one or more individual components that is designed to measure the bulk fluid movement of liquid or gas through a piped system at a designated point. Bulk fluid movement can be measured with a variety of devices in units of mass flow or volume.
"Flow monitor" means a component of the continuous emission monitoring system that measures the volumetric flow of exhaust gas.
"Flowback Fluid," for purposes of Appendix B, means chemicals, fluids, or propellants injected underground under pressure to stimulate or hydraulically fracture a crude oil or natural gas well or reservoir and that flows back to the surface as a fluid after injection is completed.
"Fluid catalytic cracking unit" or "FCCU" means a process unit in a refinery in which petroleum derivative feedstock is charged and fractured into smaller molecules in the presence of a catalyst, or reacts with a contact material to improve feedstock quality for additional processing, and in which the catalyst or contact material is regenerated by burning off coke and other deposits. The unit includes, but is not limited to, the riser, reactor, regenerator, air blowers, spent catalyst, and all equipment for controlling air pollutant emissions and recovering heat.
"Fluid coking" means a thermal cracking process utilizing the fluidized-solids technique to remove carbon (coke) for continuous conversion of heavy, low-grade oils into lighter products.
"Fluorinated greenhouse gas" means sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and any fluorocarbon except for controlled substances as defined at 40 CFR Part 82 , subpart A, (May 1995), which is hereby incorporated by reference, and substances with vapor pressures of less than 1 mm of Hg absolute at 25°C. With these exceptions, "fluorinated GHG" includes any hydrofluorocarbon, any perfluorocarbon, any fully fluorinated linear, branched or cyclic alkane, ether, tertiary amine or aminoether, any perfluoropolyether, and any hydrofluoropolyether.
"Forced extraction of natural gas liquids" means removal of ethane or higher carbon number hydrocarbons existing in the vapor phase in natural gas, by removing ethane or heavier hydrocarbons derived from natural gas into natural gas liquids by means of a forced extraction process. Forced extraction processes include refrigeration, absorption (lean oil), cryogenic expander, and combinations of these processes. Forced extraction does not include in and of itself, natural gas dehydration, or the collection or gravity separation of water or hydrocarbon liquids from natural gas at ambient temperatures, or the condensation of water or hydrocarbon liquids through passive reduction in pressure or temperature, or portable dewpoint suppression skids.
"Forest-derived wood and wood waste" means wood harvested pursuant to the California Forest Practice Rule, Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Chapters 4, 4.5, and 10 or pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act.
"Fossil fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material.
"Fractionates" means the process of separating natural gas liquids into their constituent liquid products.
"Fractionator" means plants that produce fractionated natural gas liquids (NGLs) extracted from produced natural gas and separate the NGLs individual component products: ethane, propane, butanes and pentane-plus (C5+). Plants that only process natural gas but do not fractionate NGLs further into component products are not considered fractionators. Some fractionators do not process production gas, but instead fractionate bulk NGLs received from natural gas processors. Some fractionators both process natural gas and fractionate bulk NGLs received from other plants.
"Fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous combustible material. Volatile organic compounds burned in destruction devices are not fuels unless they can sustain combustion without use of a pilot fuel, and such destruction does not result in a commercially useful end product.
"Fuel analytical data" means data collected about fuel usage (including mass, volume, and flow rate) and fuel characteristics (including heating value, carbon content, and molecular weight) to support emissions calculation.
"Fuel cell" means a device that converts the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidant directly into electrical energy without using combustion. Fuel cells require a continuous source of fuel and oxidant to operate.
"Fuel characteristic data" means, for the purpose of this article, properties of a fuel used for calculating GHG emissions including carbon content, high heat value, and molecular weight.
"Fuel combusting electricity generating or cogeneration unit" means an electricity generating unit, which may include a cogeneration or bigeneration unit, that produces electricity from fuel combustion.
"Fuel ethanol" means ethanol that meets ASTM D-4806-08 "Standard Specification for Denatured Fuel Ethanol for Blending with Gasolines for Use as Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel" (2008), specifications, which is hereby incorporated by reference, for blending with gasolines for use as automotive spark-ignition engine fuel.
"Fuel flowmeter system" means a monitoring system which provides a continuous record of the flow rate of fuel oil or gaseous fuel. A fuel flowmeter system consists of one or more fuel flowmeter components, all necessary auxiliary components (e.g., transmitters, transducers, etc.), and a data acquisition and handling system (DAHS).
"Fuel production facility" means a facility, other than a refinery, in which motor vehicle fuel, diesel fuel or biomass-based fuel is produced.
"Fuel supplier" means a supplier of petroleum products, a supplier of biomass-derived transportation fuels, a supplier of natural gas including operators of interstate and intrastate pipelines, a supplier of liquefied natural gas, or a supplier of liquid petroleum gas as specified in this article.
"Fuel transaction" means the record of the exchange of fuel possession, ownership, or title from one entity to another.
"Fugitive emissions" means those emissions which are unintentional and could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally-equivalent opening.
"Fugitive emissions detection" means the process of identifying emissions from equipment, components, and other point sources.
"Fugitive equipment leak" means the unintended or incidental emissions of greenhouse gases from the production, transmission, processing, storage, use or transportation of fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, or other equipment.
"Fugitive source" means a source of fugitive emissions.
"Full verification" means all verification services as provided in section 95131.
"Gas" means the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container.
"Gas conditions" means the actual temperature, volume, and pressure of a gas sample.
"Gas gathering/booster stations" means centralized stations where produced natural gas from individual wells is co-mingled, compressed for transport to processing plants, transmission and distribution systems, and other gathering/booster stations which co-mingle gas from multiple production gathering/booster stations. Such stations may include gas dehydration, gravity separation of liquids (both hydrocarbon and water), pipeline pig launchers and receivers, and gas powered pneumatic devices.
"Gas-to-oil ratio" or "GOR" means the ratio of gas produced from a barrel of crude oil or condensate when cooling and depressurizing these liquids to standard conditions, expressed in terms of standard cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil. Where used in this article, the terms "Total gas-to-oil ratio" and "Total GOR" refer to the ratio of the total volume of produced associated gas to the total volume of produced crude oil from one or more wells, including any associated gas that is separated and either recovered or emitted to the atmosphere prior to the collection of samples for a Flash Analysis.
"Gas-to-water ratio" or "GWR" means the ratio of gas produced from a barrel of produced water when cooling and depressurizing produced water to standard conditions, expressed in terms of standard cubic feet of gas per barrel of water.
"Gas well" means a well completed for production of natural gas from one or more gas zones or reservoirs. Such wells contain no completions for the production of crude oil.
"Generated electricity" means electricity generated by an electricity generating unit at the reporting facility. Generated electricity does not include any electricity that is generated outside the facility and delivered into the facility with final destination outside of the facility.
"Generated energy" means electricity or thermal energy generated by the electricity generating, cogeneration, or bigeneration units included in the reporting facility.
"Generating unit" means any combination of physically connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s), combustion turbine(s), or other prime mover(s) operated together to produce electric power.
"Generation providing entity" or "GPE" means a facility or generating unit operator, full or partial owner, party to a contract for a fixed percentage of net generation from the facility or generating unit, party to a tolling agreement with the owner, or exclusive marketer recognized by ARB that is either the electricity importer or exporter with prevailing rights to claim electricity from the specified source.
"Geologic sequestration" means the process of injecting CO2 captured from an emissions source into deep subsurface rock formations for permanent storage.
"Geothermal" means heat or other associated energy derived from the natural heat of the earth.
"Global warming potential" or "GWP" means the ratio of the time-integrated radiative forcing from the instantaneous release of one kilogram of a trace substance relative to that of one kilogram of a reference gas, i.e., CO2. For 2011 through 2020 data years, the GWP values used for emissions estimation and reporting are as specified in Table A-1 to Subpart A of Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 98 as published to the Federal Register on 10/30/2009. For data years 2021 and onward, the GWP values are as specified in the Table A-1 to Subpart A of Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 98 as published to the CFR on 12/11/2014, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Graduated Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B, means a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume, such as a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) which has sides marked with or divided into amounts.
"Greenhouse gas," or "GHG" means carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and other fluorinated greenhouse gases as defined in this section.
"Greenhouse gas emission reduction" or "GHG emission reduction" or "greenhouse gas reduction" or "GHG reduction" means a calculated decrease in GHG emissions relative to a project baseline over a specified period of time.
"Greenhouse gas removal enhancement" or "GHG removal" means the calculated total mass of a GHG removed, relative to a project baseline, from the atmosphere over a specified period of time.
"Greenhouse gas reservoir" or "GHG reservoir" means a physical unit or component of the biosphere, geosphere or hydrosphere with the capability to store, accumulate, or release of a GHG removed from the atmosphere by a GHG sink or a GHG captured from a GHG emission source.
"Greenhouse gas sink" or "GHG sink" means a physical unit or process that removes a GHG from the atmosphere.
"Grid" or "electric power grid" means a system of synchronized power providers and consumers connected by transmission and distribution lines and operated by one or more control centers.
"Grid-dedicated facility" means an electricity generating facility in which all net power generated is destined for distribution on the grid through retail providers or electricity marketers, ultimately serving wholesale or retail customers of the grid.
"Gross generation" or "gross power generated" means the total electrical output of the generating facility or unit, expressed in megawatt hours (MWh) per year.
"HD-5" or "special duty propane" means a consumer grade of liquefied petroleum gas containing a minimum of 90% propane, a maximum of 5% propylene, and a maximum of 2.5% butane as specified in ASTM D1835-05.
"HD-10" means the fuel that meets the specifications for propane used in transportation fuel found in Title 13, California Code of Regulations, section 2292.6.
"Heat input rate" means the product (expressed in MMBtu/hr) of the gross calorific value of the fuel (expressed in MMBtu/mass of fuel) and the fuel feed rate into the combustion device (expressed in mass of fuel/hr) and does not include the heat derived from preheated combustion air, recirculated flue gases, or exhaust from other sources.
"Heavy crude oil" or "heavy crude" means a category of crude oil characterized by relatively high viscosity, a higher carbon-to-hydrogen ratio, and a relatively higher density having an API gravity of less than 20.
"High-bleed pneumatic devices" means automatic, continuous or intermittent bleed flow control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for maintaining a process condition such as liquid level, pressure, delta-pressure and temperature. Part of the gas power stream that is regulated by the process condition flows to a valve actuator controller where it vents continuously or intermittently (bleeds) to the atmosphere at a rate in excess of 6 standard cubic feet per hour.
"High heat value" or "HHV" means the high or gross heat content of the fuel with the heat of vaporization included. The water vapor is assumed to be in a liquid state.
"Horizontal well" means a well bore that has a planned deviation from primarily vertical to primarily horizontal inclination or declination tracking in parallel with and through the target formation.
"Hydrocarbons" means chemical compounds containing predominantly carbon and hydrogen.
"Hydrofluorocarbons" or "HFCs" means a class of GHGs consisting of hydrogen, fluorine, and carbon.
"Hydrogen" means diatomic molecular hydrogen, the lightest of all gases.
"Hydrogen plant" means a facility that produces hydrogen with steam hydrocarbon reforming, partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, or other processes.
"Imported electricity" means electricity generated outside the State of California and delivered to serve load located inside the State of California. Imported electricity includes electricity delivered across balancing authority areas from a first point of receipt located outside the State of California, to the first point of delivery located inside the State of California, having a final point of delivery in California. Imported electricity includes electricity imported into California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's transmission and distribution system, or electricity imported into the State of California from a facility or unit physically located outside the State of California with the first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's transmission and distribution system. Imported electricity includes electricity that is a result of cogeneration located outside the State of California. Imported electricity does not include electricity wheeled through California, defined pursuant to this section. Imported electricity does not include electricity imported into the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority area to serve retail customers that are located within the CAISO balancing authority area, but outside the State of California. Imported Electricity does not include electricity imported into California by an Independent System Operator to obtain or provide emergency assistance under applicable emergency preparedness and operations reliability standards of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation or Western Electricity Coordinating Council. Imported electricity shall include Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) dispatches designated by the CAISO's optimization model and reported by the CAISO to EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators as electricity imported to serve retail customers load that are located within the State of California.
"Importer of fuel" means an entity that imports fuel into California and who is the importer of record under federal customs law. For imported fuel not subject to federal customs law, the "importer of fuel" is the owner of the fuel upon its entering into California if the eventual transfer of ownership of the product to an end user or marketer located in California occurs at a location inside California. However, where the transfer of ownership of the fuel to a California end user or marketer occurs at a location outside of California, the "importer of fuel" is the producer, marketer, or distributor that is the seller of the fuel to the end user or marketer located inside California. Pursuant to section 95122, only importers of liquefied petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas are subject to reporting as an importer of fuel.
"Importer of record" means the owner or purchaser of the goods that are imported into California.
"Independently operated and sited cogeneration/bigeneration facility" means a cogeneration or bigeneration facility that is not located on the same facility footprint as its thermal host and has different operational control and different ownership than the thermal host.
"Independently operated cogeneration/bigeneration facility co-located with the thermal host" means a cogeneration or bigeneration facility that is located on the same property footprint as its thermal host but has different operational control and different ownership than the thermal host.
"Independent reviewer" has the same meaning as "lead verifier independent reviewer."
"Industrial/institutional/commercial facility with electricity generation capacity" means a facility whose primary business is not electricity generation and includes one or more electricity generating, cogeneration, or bigeneration units.
"Intermittent bleed pneumatic devices" means automated flow control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for automatically maintaining a process condition such as liquid level, pressure, delta-pressure and temperature. These are snap-acting or throttling devices that discharge all or a portion of the full volume of the actuator intermittently when control action is necessary, but do not bleed continuously. Intermittent bleed devices which bleed at a cumulative rate of 6 standard cubic feet per hour or greater are considered high bleed devices for the purposes of this regulation.
"Internal combustion" means the combustion of a fuel that occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber. In an internal combustion engine the expansion of the high-temperature and high-pressure gases produced by combustion applies direct force to a component of the engine, such as pistons, turbine blades, or a nozzle. This force moves the component over a distance, generating useful mechanical energy. Internal combustion equipment may include gasoline and diesel industrial engines, natural gas-fired reciprocating engines, and gas turbines.
"Interstate pipeline" means any entity that owns or operates a natural gas pipeline delivering natural gas to consumers in the state and is subject to rate regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
"Intrastate pipeline" means any pipeline or piping system wholly within the State of California that is delivering natural gas to end-users and is not regulated as a public utility gas corporation by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), is not a publicly-owned natural gas utility, and is not regulated as an interstate pipeline by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For purposes of this article, only intrastate pipeline operators that physically deliver gas to end users in California are subject to reporting under this article. This definition includes onshore petroleum and natural gas production facilities and natural gas processing facilities, as defined by sections 95150(a)(2)-(3) of this article, that deliver pipeline and/or non-pipeline quality natural gas to one or more end users. Facility operators that operate an interconnection pipeline that connects their facility to an interstate pipeline, or that share an interconnection pipeline to an interstate pipeline with other nearby facilities, are not considered intrastate pipeline operators. Facilities that receive gas from an upstream LDC and redeliver a portion of the gas to one or more adjacent facilities are not considered intrastate pipelines.
"Inventory position" means a contractual agreement with the terminal operator for the use of the storage facilities and terminaling services for the fuel.
"ISO" means the International Organization for Standardization.
"Isobutane" is a paraffinic branch chain hydrocarbon with molecular formula C4H10.
"Isobutylene" is an olefinic branch chain hydrocarbon with molecular formula C4H8.
"Isopentane" is the methylbutane or 2-methylbutane, branched chain, isomer of C5H12 under the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature.
"Joint powers authority" means a public agency that is formed and created pursuant to the provisions of Government Code sections 6500. et seq.
"Jurisdiction" means U.S. state or Canadian province. For purposes of this article, "U.S. state" means U.S. State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa and includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. For purposes of this article, "province" means any Canadian province or territory.
"Kerosene" is a light petroleum distillate with a maximum distillation temperature of 400°F at the 10-percent recovery point, a final maximum boiling point of 572°F, a minimum flash point of 100°F, and a maximum freezing point of -22°F. Included are No. 1-K and No. 2-K, distinguished by maximum sulfur content (0.04 and 0.30 percent of total mass, respectively), as well as all other grades of kerosene called range or stove oil. "Kerosene" does not include kerosene-type jet fuel.
"Kerosene-type jet fuel" means a kerosene-based product used in commercial and military turbojet and turboprop aircraft. The product has a maximum distillation temperature of 400 °F at the 10 percent recovery point and a final maximum boiling point of 572 °F. Included are Jet A, Jet A-1, JP-5, and JP-8.
"Kiln" means an oven, furnace, or heated enclosure used for thermally processing a mineral or mineral-based substance.
"Kilowatt hour" or "kWh" means the electrical energy unit of measure equal to one thousand watts of power supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour. (A watt is a unit of electrical power equal to one ampere under pressure of one volt, or 1/746 horsepower.)
"Last point of delivery in California" means the last defined point on the transmission system located inside California at which exported electricity may be measured, consistent with defined points that have been established through the NERC Registry.
"Lead verifier" means a person that has met all of the requirements in section 95132(b)(2) and who may act as the lead verifier of a verification team providing verification services or as a lead verifier providing an independent review of verification services rendered.
"Lead verifier independent reviewer" or "independent reviewer" means a lead verifier within a verification body who has not participated in conducting verification services for a reporting entity, offset project developer, or authorized project designee for the current reporting year who provides an independent review of verification services rendered to the reporting entity as required in section 95131. The independent reviewer is not required to meet the requirements for a sector specific verifier.
"Legacy contract" shall have the meaning defined in section 95802(a) of the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Legacy contract transition assistance" means allowances provided under section 95894 of the cap-and-trade regulation to an entity which has applied for allowances on the basis of its legacy contract(s).
"Less intensive verification" means the verification services provided in interim years between full verifications; less intensive verification of a reporting entity's emissions data report only requires data checks and document reviews of a reporting entity's emissions data report based on the analysis and risk assessment in the most current sampling plan developed as part of the most current full verification services. This level of verification may only be used if the verifier can provide findings with a reasonable level of assurance.
"Light Crude Oil" means a category of crude oil characterized by relatively low viscosity, a lower carbon-to-hydrogen ratio, and a relatively lower density having an API gravity of greater than or equal to 20.
"Linkage" is as defined in section 95802(a) of the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Linked jurisdiction" means a jurisdiction which has entered into a linkage agreement pursuant to subarticle 12 of the cap-and-trade regulation.
"Liquefied natural gas" or "LNG" means natural gas (primarily methane) that has been liquefied by reducing its temperature to -260 degrees Fahrenheit at atmospheric pressure.
"Liquefied petroleum gas" or "LP-Gas" or "LPG" means a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel. LPG is a natural gas liquid (NGL) that is primarily a mixture of propane and butane, with small amounts of propene (propylene) and ethane. The most common specification categories are propane grades HD-5, HD-10, and commercial grade propane, and propane/butane mix. LPG also includes both odorized and non-odorized liquid petroleum gas, and is also referred to as propane.
"LNG boiloff gas" means natural gas in the gaseous phase that vents from LNG storage tanks due to ambient heat leakage through the tank insulation and heat energy dissipated in the LNG by internal pumps.
"Local distribution company" or "LDC," for purposes of this article, means a company that owns or operates distribution pipelines, not interstate pipelines, that physically deliver natural gas to end users and includes public utility gas corporations, publicly-owned natural gas utilities and intrastate pipelines that are delivering natural gas to end users.
"Lookback period" means the specified time period of historical data that the operators must use for missing data substitution as required by the regulation.
"Low-bleed pneumatic devices" means automated flow control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for maintaining a process condition such as liquid level, pressure, delta-pressure and temperature. Part of the gas power stream that is regulated by the process condition flows to a valve actuator controller where it vents continuously or intermittently bleeds to the atmosphere at a rate equal to or less than six standard cubic feet per hour.
"Low Btu gas" means gases recovered from casing vents, vapor recovery systems, crude oil and petroleum product storage tanks and other parts of the crude oil refining and natural gas production process.
"Marketer" means a purchasing-selling entity that delivers electricity and is not a retail provider.
"Market-shifting leakage," in the context of an offset project, means increased GHG emissions or decreased GHG removals outside an offset project's boundary due to the effects of an offset project on an established market for goods or services.
"Material misstatement" means any discrepancy, omission, or misreporting, or aggregation of the three, identified in the course of verification services that leads a verification team to believe that the total reported covered emissions (metric tons of CO2e) or reported covered product data contains errors greater than 5%, as applicable, in an emissions data report. Material misstatement is calculated separately for covered emissions and covered product data, as specified in section 95131(b)(12)(A).
"Maximum potential fuel flow rate" or "maximum fuel consumption rate" means the maximum fuel use rate the source is capable of combusting, measured in physical unit of the fuel (e.g. million standard cubic feet for gases, gallons for liquids, short tons for non-biomass solids, and bone dry short tons for biomass-derived solids). When the source consists of multiple units, the maximum potential fuel use rate is the sum of the maximum potential fuel use rates of all the units aggregated as a source.
"Megawatt hour" or "MWh" means the electrical energy unit of measure equal to one million watts of power supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour.
"Meter/regulator run" means a series of components used in regulating pressure or metering natural gas flow or both.
"Metering/regulating station" means a station that meters the flowrate, regulates the pressure, or both, of natural gas in a natural gas distribution facility. This does not include customer meters, customer regulators, or farm taps.
"Methane" or "CH4" means a GHG consisting on the molecular level of a single carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms.
"Metric ton" or "MT" means a common international measurement for mass, equivalent to 2204.6 pounds or 1.1 short tons.
"Midgrade gasoline" means gasoline that has an octane rating greater than or equal to 88 and less than or equal to 90. This definition applies to the midgrade categories of conventional-summer, conventional-winter, reformulated-summer, and reformulated-winter. For midgrade categories of RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter, CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this definition refers to the expected octane rating of the finished gasoline after oxygenate has been added to the RBOB or CBOB.
"Missing data period" means a period of time during which a piece of data is not collected, is invalid, or is collected while the measurement device is not in compliance with the applicable quality-assurance requirements. In the context of periodic fuel sampling, missing data period is the entire sampling period (e.g. week, month, or quarter) for which corresponding fuel characteristic data are not obtained. In the context of periodic fuel consumption monitoring and recording, a missing data period consists of the consecutive time intervals (e.g. hours, days, weeks, or months) for which fuel consumption during the time period is not monitored and recorded.
"MMBtu" means million British thermal units.
"Motor vehicle fuel" means gasoline. It does not include aviation gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas in liquid or gaseous form, or racing fuel.
"Mscf" means thousand standard cubic feet.
"Multi-jurisdictional retail provider" means a retail provider that provides electricity to consumers in California and in one or more other states in a contiguous service territory or from a common power system.
"Municipal solid waste" or "MSW" means solid phase household, commercial/retail, and/or institutional waste. Household waste includes material discarded by single and multiple residential dwellings, hotels, motels, and other similar permanent or temporary housing establishments or facilities. Commercial/retail waste includes material discarded by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, non-manufacturing activities at industrial facilities, and other similar establishments or facilities. Institutional waste includes material discarded by schools, nonmedical waste discarded by hospitals, material discarded by non-manufacturing activities at prisons and government facilities, and material discarded by other similar establishments or facilities. Household, commercial/retail, and institutional wastes include yard waste, refuse-derived fuel, and motor vehicle maintenance materials. Insofar as there is separate collection, processing and disposal of industrial source waste streams consisting of used oil, wood pallets, construction, renovation, and demolition wastes (which includes, but is not limited to, railroad ties and telephone poles), paper, clean wood, plastics, industrial process or manufacturing wastes, medical waste, motor vehicle parts or vehicle fluff, or used tires that do not contain hazardous waste identified or listed under 42 U.S.C. § 6921, such wastes are not municipal solid waste. However, such wastes qualify as municipal solid waste where they are collected with other municipal solid waste or are otherwise combined with other municipal solid waste for processing and/or disposal.
"NAICS" means North American Industry Classification System.
"Nameplate generating capacity" means the maximum rated output of a generator under specific conditions designated by the manufacturer. Generator nameplate capacity is usually indicated in units of kilovolt-amperes (kVA) and in Kilowatts (kW) on a nameplate physically attached to the generator.
"Naphthas" ( <401°F) is a generic term applid to a petroleum fraction with an approximate boiling range between 122°F and 400°F. The naphtha fraction of crude oil is the raw material for gasoline and is composed largely of paraffinic hydrocarbons.
"Natural gas" means a naturally occurring mixture or process derivative of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases found in geologic formations beneath the earth's surface, of which its constituents include methane, heavier hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide. Natural gas may be field quality (which varies widely) or pipeline quality. For the purposes of this article, the definition of natural gas includes similarly constituted fuels such as field production gas, process gas, and fuel gas.
"Natural gas distribution facility" means the collection of all distribution pipelines, metering stations, and regulating stations that are operated by a local distribution company (LDC) that is regulated as a separate operating company by a public utility commission or that are operated as an independent municipally-owned distribution system.
"Natural gas driven pneumatic pump" means a pump that uses pressurized natural gas to move a piston or diaphragm, which pumps liquids on the opposite side of the piston or diaphragm.
"Natural gas liquids" or "NGLs" means those hydrocarbons in natural gas that are separated from the gas as liquids through the process of absorption, condensation, adsorption, or other methods. Natural gas liquids can be classified according to their vapor pressures as low (condensate), intermediate (natural gasoline), and high (liquefied petroleum gas) vapor pressure. Generally, such liquids consist of ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes, and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. Bulk NGLs refers to mixtures of NGLs that are sold or delivered as undifferentiated product from natural gas processing plants.
"Natural gas liquid fractionator" means an installation that fractionates natural gas liquids (NGLs) into their constituent liquid products (ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutene or pentanes plus) for supply to downstream facilities.
"Natural gas supplier" means, for the purposes of this article, the local distribution company or interstate pipeline that owns or operates the distribution pipelines that physically deliver natural gas to end users.
"Natural gasoline" means a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons (mostly pentanes and heavier hydrocarbons) extracted from natural gas. It includes isopentane. Natural gasoline is a natural gas liquid of intermediate vapor pressure.
"NERC e-Tag" means North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) energy tag representing transactions on the North American bulk electricity market scheduled to flow between or across balancing authority areas.
"Net generation" or "net power generated" means the gross generation minus station service or unit service power requirements, expressed in megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In the case of cogeneration, this value is intended to include internal consumption of electricity for the purposes of a production process, as well as power put on the grid.
"Nitrous oxide" or "N2O" means a GHG consisting at the molecular level of two nitrogen atoms and a single oxygen atom.
"Nonconformance" means the failure to use the methods or emission factors specified in this article to calculate emissions, or the failure to meet any other requirements of the regulation.
"Non-exempt biomass-derived CO2" means CO2 emissions resulting from the combustion of fuel not listed under section 95852.2(a) of the cap-and-trade regulation, or that does not meet the requirements of section 95131(i) of this article.
"Non-exempt biomass-derived fuel" means fuel not listed under section 95852.2(a) of the cap-and-trade regulation, or that does not meet the requirements of section 95131(i) of this article.
"Non-fuel based renewable electricity generating unit" means a unit that generates electricity not from fuel sources, but from renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or hydropower. For the purpose of this article, a non-fuel based renewable electricity generating unit does not include other types of generation explicitly listed in section 95112(a)-(f).
"Non-submitted/non-verified emissions data report" means an emissions data report that is not submitted to ARB by the applicable reporting deadline, or for which a verification statement has not been issued by the applicable verification deadline.
"North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code(s)" means the six-digit code(s) that represent the product(s)/activity(s)/service(s) at a facility or supplier as defined in North American Industrial Classification System Manual 2007, available from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service.
"Offset project" means all equipment, materials, items, or actions that are directly related to or have an impact upon GHG reductions, project emissions or GHG removal enhancements within the offset project boundary.
"Offset project boundary" is defined by and includes all GHG emission sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs that are affected by an offset project and under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee. GHG emissions sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs not under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee are not included in the offset project boundary.
"Offset project data report" means the report prepared by an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee each year that provides the information and documentation required by this article or a compliance offset protocol.
"Offset project operator" means the entity(ies) with legal authority to implement the offset project.
"Offset project specific verifier" means an individual who has been accredited by ARB to verify offset projects of a specific offset project type.
"Offset protocol" means a documented set of procedures and requirements to quantify ongoing GHG reductions or GHG removal enhancements achieved by an offset project and calculate the project baseline. Offset protocols specify relevant data collection and monitoring procedures, emission factors and conservatively account for uncertainty and activity-shifting and market-shifting leakage risks associated with an offset project.
"Offshore," for purposes of this article, means all waters within three nautical miles of the California baseline, starting at the California-Oregon border and ending at the California-Mexico border at the Pacific Ocean, inclusive. For purposes of this definition, "California baseline" means the mean lower low water line along the California Coast.
"Oil well" means a well completed for the production of crude oil from at least one oil zone or reservoir.
"Oil and gas systems specialist" means a verifier accredited to meet the requirements of section 95131(a)(2) for providing verification services to operators petroleum refineries, hydrogen production units or facilities, and petroleum and natural gas systems listed in section 95101(e).
"Onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility" means all petroleum or natural gas equipment on a well pad, or associated with a well pad or to which emulsion is transferred and CO2 EOR operations that are under common ownership or common control including leased, rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural gas production owner or operator that are located in a single basin as defined in 40 CFR § 98.238. When a commonly owned cogeneration plant is within the basin, the cogeneration plant is only considered part of the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility if the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility operator or owner has a greater than fifty percent ownership share in the cogeneration plant. Where a person or operating entity owns or operates more than one well in a basin, then all onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment associated with all wells that the person or entity owns or operates in the basin would be considered one facility.
"Onshore petroleum and natural gas production owner or operator" means the person or entity who holds the permit to operate petroleum and natural gas wells on the drilling permit or an operating permit where no drilling permit is issued, which operates an onshore petroleum and/or natural gas production facility (as described in section 95102(a)). Where petroleum and natural gas wells operate without a drilling or operating permit, the person or entity that pays the State or Federal business income taxes is considered the owner or operator.
"On-site" or "onsite" in the context of GHG reporting means within the facility boundary.
"Operating pressure" means the containment pressure that characterizes the normal state of gas or liquid inside a particular process, pipeline, vessel or tank.
"Operational control" for a facility subject to this article means the authority to introduce and implement operating, environmental, health and safety policies. In any circumstance where this authority is shared among multiple entities, the entity holding the permit to operate from the local air pollution control district or air quality management district is considered to have operational control for purposes of this article.
"Operator" means the entity, including an owner, having operational control of a facility. For onshore petroleum and natural gas production, the operator is the operating entity listed on the state well drilling permit, or a state operating permit for wells where no drilling permit is issued by the state.
"Operating Pressure," for purposes of Appendix B means the working pressure that characterizes the conditions of crude oil, condensate, or produced water inside a particular process, pipeline, vessel or tank. In general, low pressure liquid is under less than approximately 200 psig of pressure.
"Outside of the facility boundary" means not within the physical boundary of the facility (regardless of ownership or operational control), or not in the same operational control of the reporting entity if within the same physical boundary of the facility. For example, an entity outside of the facility boundary may include another facility not in the reporting entity's operational control, another facility under the same operational control but considered a separate facility according to the definition of "facility" in this section, or an on-site industrial operation (e.g. a cogeneration system) within the facility fence line but that is operated by another operator and for which the on-site industrial operation has not been included in the reporting entity's GHG report.
"Parasitic load" means the amount of electricity consumed by auxiliary equipment that supports the electricity generation or cogeneration process. The equipment may include fans, pumps, drive motors, pollution control equipment, lighting, computer, CEMS, and other equipment.
"Particular end-user" means a final purchaser of an energy product (e.g. electricity or thermal energy) for whom the energy product is delivered for final consumption and not for the purposes of retransmission or resale.
"Pentane" is the n-pentane, straight chain, isomer of C5H12 under the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature.
"Pentanes plus" or "C5+" means a mixture of hydrocarbons that is a liquid at ambient temperature and pressure, and consists mostly of pentanes (five carbon chain) and higher carbon number hydrocarbons. Pentanes plus includes normal pentane, isopentane, hexanes-plus (natural gasoline), and plant condensate.
"Perfluorocarbons" or "PFCs" means a class of greenhouse gases consisting on the molecular level of carbon and fluorine.
"Percent Water Cut," for purposes of Appendix B, means the percentage of water by volume, of the total emulsion throughput as measured using ASTM D-4007-08. The percent water cut is expressed as a percentage.
"Performance review" means an assessment conducted by ARB of an applicant seeking to become accredited as a verification body, verifier, lead verifier, offset project specific verifier, or sector specific verifier pursuant to section 95132 of this article. Such an assessment may include a review of applicable past sampling plans, verification reports, verification statements, conflict of interest submittals, and additional information or documentation regarding the applicant's fitness for qualification.
"Petroleum" means oil removed from the earth and the oil derived from tar sands and shale.
"Petroleum coke" means a black solid residue, obtained mainly by cracking and carbonizing of petroleum derived feedstocks, vacuum bottoms, tar and pitches in processes such as delayed coking or fluid coking. It consists mainly of carbon (90 to 95 percent), has low ash content, and may be used as a feedstock in coke ovens. This product is also known as marketable coke.
"Petroleum refinery" or "refinery" means any facility engaged in producing gasoline, gasoline blending stocks, naphtha, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or asphalt (bitumen) through distillation of petroleum or through redistillation, cracking, or reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives. Facilities that distill only pipeline transmix (off-spec material created when different specification products mix during pipeline transportation) are not petroleum refineries, regardless of the products produced.
"Physical address," with respect to a United States parent company as defined in this section, means the street address, city, State and zip code of that company's physical location.
"Pipeline dig-in" means unintentional puncture or rupture to a buried natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline during excavation activities.
"Pipeline quality natural gas" means, for the purpose of calculating emissions under this article, natural gas having a high heat value greater than 970 Btu/scf and equal to or less than 1,100 Btu/scf, and which is at least ninety percent methane by volume, and which is less than five percent carbon dioxide by volume.
"Point of delivery" or "POD" means the point on an electricity transmission or distribution system where a deliverer makes electricity available to a receiver, or available to serve load. This point can be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system, or a distribution substation where electricity is imported into California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's distribution system.
"Point of receipt" or "POR" means the point on an electricity transmission or distribution system where an electricity receiver receives electricity from a deliverer. This point can be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system.
"Point source" means any separately identifiable stationary point from which greenhouse gases are emitted.
"Portable" means designed and capable of being carried or moved from one location to another. Indications of portability include wheels, skids, carrying handles, dolly, trailer, or platform. Equipment is not portable if any one of the following conditions exists:
The equipment is attached to a foundation.
The equipment or a replacement resides at the same location for more than 12 consecutive months.
The equipment is located at a seasonal facility and operates during the full annual operating period of the seasonal facility, remains at the facility for at least two years, and operates at that facility for at least three months each year.
The equipment is moved from one location to another in an attempt to circumvent the portable residence time requirements of this definition.
"Portland cement" means hydraulic cement (cement that not only hardens by reacting with water but also forms a water-resistant product) produced by pulverizing clinkers consisting essentially of hydraulic calcium silicates, usually containing one or more of the forms of calcium sulfate as an inter-ground addition.
"Position holder" means an entity that holds an inventory position in motor vehicle fuel, ethanol, distillate fuel, biodiesel, or renewable diesel as reflected in the records of the terminal operator or a terminal operator that owns motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel in its terminal. "Position holder" does not include inventory held outside of a terminal, fuel jobbers (unless directly holding inventory at the terminal), retail establishments, or other fuel suppliers not holding inventory at a fuel terminal.
"Positive emissions data verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and that the covered emissions data conforms to the requirements of this article.
"Positive product data verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and that the covered product data conforms to the requirements of this article.
"Positive verification statement" means a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and that the emissions data report conforms to the requirements of this article. This definition applies to the emissions data verification statement and the product data verification statement.
"Power" means electricity, except where the context makes clear that another meaning is intended.
"Power contract" or "written power contract," as used for the purposes of documenting specified versus unspecified sources of imported and exported electricity, means a written document, including associated verbal or electronic records if included as part of the written power contract, arranging for the procurement of electricity. Power contracts may be, but are not limited to, power purchase agreements, enabling agreements, electricity transactions, and tariff provisions, without regard to duration, or written agreements to import or export on behalf of another entity, as long as that other entity also reports to ARB the same imported or exported electricity. A power contract for a specified source is a contract that is contingent upon delivery of power from a particular facility, unit, or asset-controlling supplier's system that is designated at the time the transaction is executed.
"Premium grade gasoline" is gasoline having an antiknock index, i.e., octane rating, greater than 90. This definition applies to the premium grade categories of conventional-summer, conventional-winter, reformulated-summer, and reformulated-winter. For premium grade categories of RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter, CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this definition refers to the expected octane rating of the finished gasoline after oxygenate has been added to the RBOB or CBOB.
"Primary fuel" means the fuel that provides the greatest percentage of the annual heat input to a stationary fuel combustion unit.
"Primary Vessel," for purposes of Appendix B means a separator or tank that receives crude oil, condensate, produced water, natural gas, or emulsion from one or more crude oil, condensate, or natural gas wells or field gathering systems.
"Prime mover" means the type of equipment such as an engine or water wheel that drives an electric generator. "Prime movers" include, but are not limited to, reciprocating engines, combustion or gas turbines, steam turbines, microturbines, and fuel cells.
"Process" means the intentional or unintentional reactions between substances or their transformation, including, but not limited to, the chemical or electrolytic reduction of metal ores, the thermal decomposition of substances, and the formation of substances for use as product or feedstock.
"Process emissions" means the emissions from industrial processes (e.g., cement production, ammonia production) involving chemical or physical transformations other than fuel combustion. For example, the calcination of carbonates in a kiln during cement production or the oxidation of methane in an ammonia process results in the release of process CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions from fuel combustion to provide process heat are not part of process emissions, whether the combustion is internal or external to the process equipment.
"Process emissions specialist" means a verifier accredited to meet the requirements of section 95131(a)(2) for providing verification services to operators of facilities engaged in cement production, glass production, lime manufacturing, pulp and paper manufacturing, iron and steel production, nitric acid production, and lead production.
"Process gas" means any gas generated by an industrial process such as petroleum refining.
"Process Heater" means equipment for the heating of process streams (gases, liquids, or solids) other than water through heat provided by fuel combustion.
"Process unit" means the equipment assembled and connected by pipes and ducts to process raw materials and to manufacture either a final or an intermediate product used in the onsite production of other products. The process unit also includes the purification of recovered byproducts.
"Process vent" means an opening where a gas stream is continuously or periodically discharged during normal operation.
"Produced water" means the resulting water that is produced as a byproduct of crude oil or natural gas production.
"Producer" means a person who owns, leases, operates, controls or supervises a California production facility.
"Product data" means the sector-specific data specified in subarticles 2 and 5 of this article, including requirements in 40 CFR Part 98.
"Product data verification statement" means the final statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting entity's covered product data in their emissions data report is free of material misstatement, and whether the product data conforms to the requirements of this article.
"Professional judgment" means the ability to render sound decisions based on professional qualifications and relevant greenhouse gas accounting and auditing experience.
"Project baseline" means, in the context of a specific offset project, a conservative estimate of business-as-usual GHG emission reductions or GHG removal enhancements for the offset project's GHG emission sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs within the offset project boundary.
"Propane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular formula C3H8.
"Propylene" is an olefinic hydrocarbon with molecular formula C3H6.
"Public utility gas corporation" is a gas corporation defined in California Public Utilities Code section 222 that is also a public utility as defined in California Public Utilities Code section 216.
"Publicly-owned natural gas utility" means a municipality or municipal corporation, a municipal utility district, a public utility district, or a joint powers authority that includes one or more of these agencies that furnishes natural gas services to end users.
"Pump" means a device used to raise pressure, drive, or increase flow of liquid streams in closed or open conduits.
"Pump seal emissions" means hydrocarbon gas released from the seal face between the pump internal chamber and the atmosphere.
"Pump seals" means any seal on a pump drive shaft used to keep methane and/or carbon dioxide containing light liquids from escaping the inside of a pump case to the atmosphere.
"Purchasing-selling entity" or "PSE" means the entity that is identified on a NERC e-Tag for each physical path segment.
"Pure" means consisting of at least 97 percent by mass of a specified substance. For facilities burning biomass fuels, this means the fraction of biomass carbon accounts for at least 97 percent of the total amount of carbon in the fuel burned at the facility.
"PURPA Qualifying Facility" means a facility that has acquired a "qualifying facility (QF)" certification pursuant to 18 CFR § 292.207 under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).
"QA/QC" means quality assurance and quality control.
"Qualified positive emissions data verification statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and is in conformance with section 95131(b)(9), but the emissions data may include one or more other nonconformances with the requirements of this article which do not result in a material misstatement.
"Qualified positive product data verification statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and is in conformance with section 95131(b)(9), but the product data may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with the requirements of this article which do not result in a material misstatement.
"Qualified positive verification statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement and is in conformance with section 95131(b)(9), but the emissions data report may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with the requirements of this article which do not result in a material misstatement. This definition applies to the qualified positive emissions data verification statement and the qualified positive product data verification statement.
"Qualified Thermal Output" means the thermal energy generated by a cogeneration unit or district heating facility that is sold to particular end-users and reported pursuant to MRR section 95112(a)(5)(A) and the thermal energy used on-site by industrial processes or operations and heating and cooling operations that is not in support of or a part of the electricity generation or cogeneration system and is reported pursuant to MRR sections 95112(a)(5)(C). Qualified thermal output does not include thermal energy that is vented, radiated, wasted, or discharged before it is utilized at industrial processes or operations, or, for a facility with a cogeneration unit, any thermal energy generated by equipment that is not an integral part of the cogeneration unit.
"Quality-assured data" or "quality-assured value" means the data are obtained from a monitoring system that is operating within the performance specifications and the quality assurance/quality control procedures set forth in the applicable rules, for example 40 CFR Part 60 (July 1, 2009) or Part 75, (July 1, 2009), which is hereby incorporated by reference, without unscheduled maintenance, repair, or adjustment.
"Rack" means a mechanism for delivering motor vehicle fuel or diesel from a refinery or terminal into a truck, trailer, railroad car, or other means of non-bulk transfer.
"RBOB-summer" or "reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending-summer" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of reformulated-summer.
"RBOB-winter" or "reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blendingwinter" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of reformulatedwinter.
"Reasonable assurance" means a high degree of confidence that submitted data and statements are valid.
"Reciprocating compressor" means a piece of equipment that increases the pressure of a process natural gas or CO2 by positive displacement, employing linear movement of a shaft driving a piston in a cylinder.
"Reciprocating compressor rod packing" means a series of flexible rings in machined metal cups that fit around the reciprocating compressor piston rod to create a seal limiting the amount of compressed natural gas or CO2 that escapes to the atmosphere.
"Reciprocating internal combustion engine" or "RICE" or "piston engine" means an engine that uses heat from the internal combustion of fuel to create pressure that drives one or more reciprocating pistons, creating mechanical energy.
"Re-condenser" means heat exchangers that cool compressed boil-off gas to a temperature that will condense natural gas to a liquid.
"Refiner" means, for purposes of this article, an individual entity or a corporate-wide entity that delivers transportation fuels to end users in California that were produced by petroleum refineries owned by that entity or a subsidiary of that entity.
"Refinery fuel gas" or "still gas" means gas generated at a petroleum refinery or any gas generated by a refinery process unit, and that is combusted separately or in any combination with any type of gas or used as a chemical feedstock.
"Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending" or "RBOB" has the same meaning as defined in title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, section 2260(a).
"Reformulated-summer" means finished gasoline formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under 40 CFR § 80.40 and 40 CFR § 80.41, and summer RVP standards required under 40 CFR § 80.27 or as specified by the state. Reformulated gasoline excludes RBOB as well as other blendstock.
"Reformulated-winter" means finished gasoline formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under 40 CFR § 80.40 and 40 CFR § 80.41, but which do not meet summer RVP standards required under 40 CFR § 80.27 or as specified by the state.
NOTE: This category includes Oxygenated Fuels Program Reformulated Gasoline (OPRG). Reformulated gasoline excludes RBOB as well as other blendstock.
"Regular grade gasoline" is gasoline having an antiknock index, i.e., octane rating, greater than or equal to 85 and less than 88. This definition applies to the regular grade categories of conventional-summer, conventional-winter, reformulated-summer, and reformulated-winter. For regular grade categories of RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter, CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this definition refers to the expected octane rating of the finished gasoline after oxygenate has been added to the RBOB or CBOB.
"Relative Accuracy Test Audit" means a method of determining the correlation of continuous emissions monitoring system data to simultaneously collected reference method test data, for example as required in 40 CFR Part 60 (July 1, 2009) and 40 CFR Part 75 (July 1, 2009).
"Rendered animal fat" or "tallow" means fats extracted from animals which are generally used as a feedstock in making biodiesel.
"Renewable diesel" means a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive that is all of the following:
Registered as a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive under 40 CFR Part 79 ;
Not a mono-alkyl ester;
Intended for use in engines that are designed to run on conventional diesel fuel; and
Derived from nonpetroleum renewable resources.
"Renewable energy" means energy from sources that constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible. Renewable energy includes energy derived from solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, wood, biomass, tidal power, sea currents, and ocean thermal gradients.
"Renewable Energy Credit" or "REC" has the same meaning defined in the California Energy Commission's "Renewable Portfolio Standard Eligibility," 7th edition, Commission Guidebook, April, 2013; CEC-300-2013-005-ED7-CMF.
"Renewable liquid fuels" means fuel ethanol, biomass-based diesel fuel, other renewable diesel fuel and other renewable fuels.
"Reporting entity" means a facility operator, supplier, or electric power entity subject to the requirements of this article.
"Reporting period" means the calendar year which coincides with the data year for the GHG report.
"Reporting year" or "report year" means data year.
"Reservoir" means a porous and permeable underground natural formation containing crude oil or gas. A reservoir is characterized by a single natural pressure.
"Residual fuel oil" means a general classification for the heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that remain after the distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled away in refinery operations.
"Residue gas and residue gas compression" means, respectively, production lease natural gas from which gas liquid products and, in some cases, non-hydrocarbon components have been extracted such that it meets the specifications set by a pipeline transmission company, and/or a distribution company; and the compressors operated by the processing facility, whether inside the processing facility boundary fence or outside the fence-line, that deliver the residue gas from the processing facility to a transmission pipeline.
"Retail end-use customer" or "retail end user" means a residential, commercial, agricultural, or industrial electric customer who buys electricity to be consumed as a final product and not for resale.
"Retail provider" means an entity that provides electricity to retail end users in California and is an electric corporation as defined in Public Utilities Code section 218, electric service provider as defined in Public Utilities Code section 218.3, local publicly owned electric utility as defined in Public Utilities Code section 224.3, a community choice aggregator as defined in Public Utilities Code section 331.1, or the Western Area Power Administration. For purposes of this article, electric cooperatives, as defined by Public Utilities Code section 2776, are excluded.
"Retail sales" means electricity sold to retail end users.
"Sales oil" means produced crude oil or condensate measured at the production lease automatic custody transfer (LACT) meter or custody transfer tank gauge.
"Secondary Vessel," for purposes of Appendix B means a separator or tank that receives crude oil, condensate, produced water, natural gas, or emulsion from one or more primary vessel separators or tanks.
"Sector" means a broad industrial categorization such as specified in section 95101.
"Sector specific verifier" means a verifier accredited pursuant to section 95132(b)(5)(A) as one or more of the following types of specialists defined pursuant to this section: a transactions specialist, an oil and gas systems specialist, or a process emissions specialist.
"Separator" means a sump or vessel used to separate crude oil, condensate, natural gas, produced water, emulsion or solids.
"Short ton" means a common international measurement for mass, equivalent to 2,000 pounds.
"Shutdown" means the cessation of operation of an emission source for any purpose.
"Simplified block diagram" means a diagram consisting of boxes, shapes, lines, arrows, and labels that meets the requirements of section 95112(a)(6) or section 95105(c). A simplified block diagram is not an architectural drawing or an engineering drawing that shows the likeness of the physical objects being depicted and their actual locations and sizes in scale; it is a simplified graphical representation of the objects being depicted, their relative locations, and how they are connected through flows of energy or energy carrier (e.g. steam, water, electricity, or fuel).
"Sink" or "sink to load" or "load sink" means the sink identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the sink on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to as the final point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.
"Sorbent" means a material used to absorb or adsorb liquids or gases.
"Sour natural gas" means natural gas that contains significant concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and/or carbon dioxide that exceed the concentrations specified for commercially saleable natural gas delivered from transmission and distribution pipelines.
"Source" means greenhouse gas source; any physical unit, process, or other use or activity that releases a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
"Source category" means categories of emission sources as defined by Tables A-3, A-4, and A-5 of 40 CFR Part 98.
"Source of generation" or "generation source" means the generation source identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. Imported electricity and wheels are disaggregated by the source on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to as the first point of receipt.
"Specified source of electricity" or "specified source" means a facility or unit which is permitted to be claimed as the source of electricity delivered. The reporting entity must have either full or partial ownership in the facility/unit or a written power contract to procure electricity generated by that facility/unit. Specified facilities/units include cogeneration systems. Specified source also means electricity procured from an asset-controlling supplier recognized by the ARB.
"SSM" means periods of startup, shutdown and malfunction.
"Stand-alone electricity generating facility" means an electricity generating facility whose primary business and sole industrial operation is electricity generation, and is not a cogeneration or bigeneration facility.
"Standard conditions" or "standard temperature and pressure (STP)" means either 60 or 68 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute.
"Standard cubic foot" or "scf" is a measure of quantity of gas, equal to a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and either 14.696 pounds per square inch (1 atm) or 14.73 PSI (30 inches Hg) of pressure.
"Steam generator" means equipment that produces steam using an external heat source.
"Stationary" means neither portable nor self-propelled, and operated at a single facility.
"Storage tank" means any tank, other container, or reservoir used for the storage of organic liquids, excluding tanks that are permanently affixed to mobile vehicles such as railroad tank cars, tanker trucks or ocean vessels.
"Sub-facility" for purposes of reporting data disaggregated pursuant to section 95156(a), means the geographic area, or areas, within a single township or within a group of contiguous or adjacent townships identified in the Public Land Survey System of the United States, where operations and equipment are located. The operator may disaggregate sub-facilities based on contiguous township areas to smaller sub-facilities according to similar operational, geological, or geographical characteristics. Sub-facility disaggregation may be retained from year to year, or may be updated when some of the operations cease or equipment is reconfigured within the previously designated sub-facilities. Sub-facility disaggregation must be updated from previous reporting years if there are new operations or equipment that lies outside previous township boundaries. The Principal Meridian name, Township and Range designations, and the section numbers that apply to each sub-facility, must be identified in the operator's GHG Monitoring Plan required pursuant to section 95105(c). The operator must also describe in the GHG Monitoring Plan any operational, geological or geographical characteristics used to determine sub-facility boundaries.
"Substitute power" or "substitute electricity" means electricity that is provided to meet the terms of a power purchase contract with a specified facility or unit when that facility or unit is not generating electricity.
"Sulfur hexafluoride" or "SF6" means a GHG consisting on the molecular level of a single sulfur atom and six fluorine atoms.
"Sump," for purposes of Appendix B means a lined or unlined surface impoundment or depression in the ground that, during normal operations, is used for separating crude oil, condensate, produced water, emulsion, or solids.
"Supplemental firing" means an energy input to the cogeneration facility used only in the thermal process of a topping cycle plant, or in the electricity generating or manufacturing process of a bottoming cycle cogeneration facility.
"Supplier" means a producer, importer, exporter, position holder, interstate pipeline operator, intrastate pipeline operator, or local distribution company of a fossil fuel or an industrial greenhouse gas.
"Sweet gas" means natural gas with low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) that does not require (or has already had) acid gas treatment to meet pipeline corrosion-prevention specifications for transmission and distribution.
"Tactical support equipment" is as defined in title 17, California Code of Regulations, section 93116.2(a)(36).
"Tank," for the purposes of Appendix B, means a container, constructed primarily of non-earthen materials, used for holding or storing crude oil, condensate, produced water, or emulsion.
"Tentatively Identified Compound List," for purposes of Appendix B means a list of target compounds that laboratories can use to evaluate uncommon gaseous compounds when performing a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometry analysis.
"Terminal" means a motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel storage and distribution facility that is supplied by pipeline or vessel, and from which fuel may be removed at a rack. "Terminal" includes a fuel production facility where motor vehicle or diesel fuel is produced and stored and from which fuel may be removed at a rack.
"Terminal operator" means any entity that owns, operates or otherwise controls a terminal that is supplied by pipeline or vessel and from which accountable fuel products may be removed at a rack.
"Thermal energy" means the thermal output produced by a combustion source used directly as part of a manufacturing process, industrial/commercial process, or heating/cooling application, but not used to produce electricity.
"Thermal host" means the user of the steam or heat output of a cogeneration or bigeneration facility.
"Three-Phase Separator," for purposes of Appendix B, means a pressurized vessel sealed from the atmosphere used to gravimetrically separate crude oil, produced water and gases.
"Throughput" for the purposes of Appendix B, means the average volume of liquid processed by a vessel over a period of time, such as barrels per day. The throughput of crude oil or condensate may need to be calculated using the Percent Water Cut. The throughput of crude oil or condensate is calculated as the difference in volume between these liquids and the produced water.
"Tier" means the level of calculation method from 40 CFR § 98.33 that is required for a stationary combustion source in section 95115 of this article.
"Tier 1" means a stationary combustion calculation method that applies default values for emission factors and high heat value to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in 40 CFR § 98.33.
"Tier 2" means a stationary combustion calculation method that applies a default value for an emission factor and a fuel's measured high heat value (or a boiler efficiency for steam-generating solid fuels) to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in 40 CFR § 98.33.
"Tier 3" means a stationary combustion calculation method that utilizes a fuel's measured carbon content to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in 40 CFR § 98.33.
"Tier 4" means a stationary combustion calculation method that utilizes quality-assured data from a continuous emission monitoring system to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in 40 CFR § 98.33. This method may also capture process emissions from a common stack.
"Tolling agreement" means an agreement whereby a party rents a power plant from the owner. The rent is generally in the form of a fixed monthly payment plus a charge for every MW generated, generally referred to as a variable payment.
"Topping cycle" means a type of cogeneration system in which the energy input to the plant is first used to produce electricity, and at least some of the reject heat from the electricity production process is then used to provide useful thermal output.
"Total thermal output" means the total amount of usable thermal energy generated by a cogeneration or bigeneration unit that can potentially be made available for use in any industrial or commercial processes, heating or cooling applications, or delivered to other end users. This quantity excludes the heat content of returned condensate and makeup water, but includes the thermal energy used for supporting (but not directly used for) power generation, thermal energy used in other on-site processes or applications that are not in support of or a part of the electricity generation system, thermal energy provided or sold to particular end-user, and thermal energy that is otherwise not utilized. Thermal energy directly used for power generation (e.g., steam used to drive a steam turbine generator for electricity generation) is not included in total thermal output.
"Transactions specialist" means a verifier accredited to meet the requirements of section 95131(a)(2) for providing verification services to electric power entities; suppliers of petroleum products and biofuels; suppliers of natural gas, natural gas liquids, and liquefied petroleum gas; and suppliers of carbon dioxide.
"Transmission-distribution (T-D) transfer station" means a metering-regulating station where a local distribution company takes part or all of the natural gas from a transmission pipeline and puts it into a distribution pipeline.
"Transmission pipeline" means a high pressure cross country pipeline transporting saleable quality natural gas from production or natural gas from processing to natural gas distribution pressure let-down, metering, regulating stations, where the natural gas is typically odorized before delivery to customers.
"Traceable" means that a standard used to calibrate a device has an unbroken chain of comparisons to a stated reference (such as a standard set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology), with each comparison having a stated uncertainty
"Turbine" means any of various types of machines in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate.
"Turbine meter" means a flow meter in which a gas or liquid flow rate through the calibrated tube spins a turbine from which the spin rate is detected and calibrated to measure the fluid flow rate.
"Two-Phase Separator," for purposes of Appendix B, means a pressurized vessel sealed from the atmosphere used to gravimetrically separate crude oil and produced water that still contain entrained gases.
"Type of thermal energy product" means the form in which energy is transferred from a facility producing thermal energy to another facility, or if not transferred, the form in which the energy is used. Types of thermal energy products include steam, hot water, chilled water, and distilled water.
"Uncertainty" means the degree to which data or a data system is deemed to be indefinite or unreliable.
"Uncontrolled blowdown system" means the use of a blowdown procedure that does not result in the recovery of emissions for flaring or re-injection.
"Unconventional wells" means crude oil or gas wells in producing fields that employ hydraulic fracturing to enhance crude oil or gas production volumes.
"United States parent company(s)" mean the highest-level United States company(s) with an ownership interest in the reporting entity as of December 31 of the reporting year.
"Unspecified source of electricity" or "unspecified source" means a source of electricity that is not a specified source at the time of entry into the transaction to procure the electricity.
"Upstream entity" means the last entity in the chain of title prior to the fuel being received by the reporting entity.
"Urban waste" means waste pallets, crates, dunnage, manufacturing and construction wood waste, tree trimmings, mill residues and range land maintenance residues.
"U.S. EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Used oil" means a petroleum-derived or synthetically-derived oil whose physical properties have changed as a result of handling or use, such that the oil cannot be used for its original purpose. Used oil consists primarily of automotive oils (e.g., used motor oil, transmission oil, hydraulic fluids, brake fluid, etc.) and industrial oils (e.g., industrial engine oils, metalworking oils, process oils, industrial grease, etc.).
"Vapor recovery system" means any equipment located at the source of potential gas emissions to the atmosphere or to a flare, that is composed of piping, connections, and, if necessary, flow-inducing devices, and that is used for routing the gas back into the process as a product and/or fuel.
"Vegetable oil" means oils extracted from vegetation that are generally used as a feedstock in making biodiesel.
"Vented emissions" means intentional or designed releases of CH4 or CO2 containing natural gas or hydrocarbon gas (not including stationary combustion flue gas), including process designed flow to the atmosphere through seals or vent pipes, equipment blowdown for maintenance, and direct venting of gas used to power equipment (such as pneumatic devices).
"Verification" means a systematic, independent and documented process for evaluation of a reporting entity's emissions data report against ARB's reporting procedures and methods for calculation and reporting GHG emissions and product data.
"Verification body" means a firm accredited by ARB that is able to render a verification statement and provide verification services for reporting entities subject to reporting under this article.
"Verification services" means services provided during verification as specified in section 95131 beginning with the development of the verification plan or first site visit, including but not limited to reviewing a reporting entity's emissions data report, ensuring its accuracy according to the standards specified in this article, assessing the reporting entity's compliance with this article, and submitting a verification statement(s) to the ARB.
"Verification statement" means the final statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting entity's emissions data report is free of material misstatement, and whether it conforms to the requirements of this article. This definition applies to the emissions data verification statement and the product data verification statement.
"Verification team" means all of those working for a verification body, including all subcontractors, to provide verification services for a reporting entity.
"Verified emissions data report" means an emissions data report that has been reviewed by a third-party verifier and has a verification statement, or statements, if applicable, submitted to the ARB.
"Verifier" means an individual accredited by ARB to carry out verification services as specified in section 95131.
"Verifier review" means a verifier conducts all reviews and services in section 95131, except the material misstatement assessment under section 95131(b)(12). If some of the sources are selected for data checks based on the sampling plan, the verifier will check for conformance with the requirements of this article.
"Vertical well" means a well bore that is primarily vertical but has some unintentional deviation to enter one or more subsurface targets that are off-set horizontally from the surface location, intercepting the targets either vertically or at an angle.
"Vessel," for the purposes of Appendix B, means any container, constructed primarily of non-earthen materials, used to separate or store crude oil, condensate, natural gas, produced water, or emulsion.
"Volatile organic compound" or "VOC" means any volatile compound of carbon, excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate, which participates in atmospheric photochemical reactions.
"VOCC3-C9," for purposes of Appendix B, means Volatile Organic Compounds with three to nine carbon atoms.
"VOCC10+," for purposes of Appendix B, means Volatile Organic Compounds with 10 or more carbon atoms. This value is needed for laboratory and quality control purposes.
"Weighted monthly average" means the sum of the products of two values measured during the same time period divided by the sum of the values not being averaged. For weighted average HHV it would be the sum of the products of volume and HHV measured during the same time period divided by the sum of the volumes.
"Well completions" means the process that allows for the flow of petroleum or natural gas from newly drilled wells to expel drilling and reservoir fluids and test the reservoir flow characteristics, steps which may vent produced gas to the atmosphere via an open pit or tank. Well completion also involves connecting the well bore to the reservoir, which may include treating the formation or installing tubing, packer(s), or lifting equipment, steps that do not significantly vent natural gas to the atmosphere. This process may also include high-rate flowback of injected gas, water, oil, and proppant used to fracture or re-fracture and prop open new fractures in existing lower permeability gas reservoirs, steps that may vent large quantities of produced gas to the atmosphere.
"Well testing venting and flaring" means venting and/or flaring of natural gas at the time the production rate of a well is determined for regulatory, commercial, or technical purposes. If well testing is conducted immediately after a well completion or workover, then it is considered part of well completion or workover.
"Well workover" means the process(es) of performing one or more of a variety of remedial operations on producing petroleum and natural gas wells to try to increase production. This process also includes high-rate flowback of injected gas, water, oil, and proppant used to re-fracture and prop-open new fractures in existing low permeability gas reservoirs, steps that may vent large quantities of produced gas to the atmosphere.
"Wellhead" means the piping, casing, tubing and connected valves protruding above the Earth's surface for an oil and/or natural gas well. The wellhead ends where the flow line connects to a wellhead valve. Wellhead equipment includes all equipment, permanent and portable, located on the improved land area (i.e. well pad) surrounding one or multiple wellheads.
"Wet natural gas" means natural gas in which water vapor exceeds the concentration specified for commercially saleable natural gas delivered from transmission and distribution pipelines. This input stream to a natural gas dehydrator is referred to as "wet gas".
"Wholesale sales" means sales to other LDCs.
"Adjusted hulled and dried pistachios" means the raw pistachios that have been received and subjected to a hulling and drying process. Hulling is the process of removing pistachio hulls that cover pistachio shells and kernels. Drying is the process of reducing the moisture content of hulled pistachios. Adjusted hulled and dried pistachios shall conform to the sampling methodology specified in the "Representative Sampling" section of "Pistachios In the Shell, Shipping Point and Market Inspection Instructions" (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2005), which is hereby incorporated by reference, and the weight shall be corrected to 5 percent moisture.
"Air dried ton of paper" means paper with 6 percent moisture content.
"Almond" means the edible seeds of the almond (Prunus amygdalus).
"Aluminum alloy" is an alloy in which aluminum is the predominant metal and the alloying elements may typically be copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, or other elemental additives or any combination of elements added.
"Aluminum and aluminum alloy billet" means a solid bar of nonferrous metal, produced by casting molten aluminum alloys that is suitable for subsequent rolling, casting, or extrusion.
"Anhydrous milkfat" means fatty products derived exclusively from milk and/or products obtained from milk by means of processes which result in almost total removal of water and non-fat solids.
"Aseptic preparation" is a system in which a product is sterilized before filling into pre-sterilized packs under sterile conditions.
"Aseptic tomato paste" means tomato paste packaged using aseptic preparation. Aseptic paste is normalized to 31 percent tomato soluble solids. Aseptic paste normalized to 31% TSS = (%TSS - raw TSS)/(31 - raw TSS)
"Aseptic whole and diced tomato" means the sum of whole and diced tomatoes packaged using aseptic preparation. Sum of aseptic whole and diced tomatoes = whole tomatoes + (diced tomatoes x 1.05))
"Baked potato chip" means a potato chip made from potato dough that is rolled to a specified thickness, cut into a chip shape and then toasted in an oven.
"Barrel of oil equivalent," with respect to reporting of oil and gas production, means barrels of crude oil produced, plus associated gas and dry gas produced, converted to barrels at 5.8 MMBtu per barrel.
"Blanched almonds" means raw almond meats that are introduced to the blanching process. Blanching is the process through which skins are detached from almond meats.
"Boric Oxide Equivalent" means the theoretical equivalent mass of boric oxide (B2O3) in all produced borate products, which is not necessarily equal to the mass of the physical substance boric oxide. This theoretical chemically equivalent mass of B2O3 in produced borate product is measured either (1) by using the methods described in "Method to Determine the Boric Oxide Equivalent in Borate Products" (ARB 2017), which is hereby incorporated by reference, or (2) by multiplying the mass of borates by the default boric oxide equivalency factors and summing the products. The default boric oxide equivalency factors are as follows: 38 percent for borax decahydrate (Na2B4O7*10H2O), 49 percent for borax pentahydrate (Na2B4O7*5H2O), 69 percent for anhydrous borax (Na2B4O7), 56 percent for boric acid (H3BO3), and 99 percent for anhydrous boric acid (B2O3).
"Butter" means the product made by gathering the fat of fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass that also contains a small portion of other milk constituents including nonfat solids. Moisture and nonfat solids are essential constituents of butter.
"Buttermilk" means the low-fat portion of milk or cream remaining after the milk or cream has been churned to make butter.
"Buttermilk powder" means milk powder obtained by drying liquid buttermilk that was derived from the churning of butter and pasteurized prior to condensing. Buttermilk powder has a protein content of no less than 30%. It may not contain, or be derived from, nonfat dry milk, dry whey, or products other than buttermilk, and contains no added preservatives, neutralizing agents, or other chemicals.
"By-product hydrogen gas" means pure hydrogen gas produced as a result of a process or processes dedicated to producing other products (e.g. catalytic reforming).
"Calcined coke" means petroleum coke purified to a dry, pure form of carbon suitable for use as anode and other non-fuel applications.
"Calcium ammonium nitrate solution" means calcium nitrate that contains ammonium nitrate and water. Calcium ammonium nitrate solution is generally used as agricultural fertilizer.
"Calyx" means the leaflike structure composing the outermost part of a flower. This structure often encloses and protects a bud and may remain after a fruit forms.
"Casein" means a group of proteins found in milk which is coagulated by enzymes and acid to form cheese.
"Cheese" means a food product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.
"Clinker" means the mass of fused material produced in a cement kiln from which finished cement is manufactured by milling and grinding.
"Cold rolled and annealed steel sheet" means steel that is cold rolled and then annealed. Cold rolling means the changes in the structure and shape of steel through rolling, hammering or stretching the steel at a low temperature. Annealing is a heat or thermal treatment process by which a previously cold-rolled steel coil is made more suitable for forming and bending. The steel sheet is heated to a designated temperature for a sufficient amount of time and then cooled.
"Cold rolling of steel" means the changes in the structure and shape of steel through rolling, hammering or stretching the steel at a low temperature.
"Condensed milk" means the food obtained by partial removal of water only from a milk product. The finished food contains not less than 28 percent by weight of total milk solids. The composition of the milk solid components and nutritional content in condensed milk remains the same relative ratios as the parent fluid milk product except for minor composition changes due to processing.
"Container Glass pulled" means the quantity of glass removed from the melting furnace in the container glass manufacturing process where "container glass" is defined as glass products intended for packaging.
"Corn" means the kernels of the dent corn plant (Zea mays var. indentata.) that have been shelled and contain no more than 10.0 percent of other grains.
"Corn chip" is a food product made from masa (ground corn dough) that is rolled to a specific thickness, cut into a chop shape, lightly toasted in an oven, and then deep fried.
"Corn curl" is a food product made from a deep-fried extrusion of masa (ground corn dough).
"Corn entering wet milling process" means corn entering the process in which feed corn is steeped in liquid in order to help separate the kernel's various components into starch, germ, fiber and protein (gluten) and then process the components into useful products such as starch, syrup, high fructose corn syrup, animal feed, and by-products such as gluten meal and germ.
"Cream" means that portion of milk, rich in milk fat, which rises to the surface of milk that is left standing or which is separated from milk by centrifugal force.
"Dehydrated chili pepper" means chili pepper that has been dehydrated to no more than 12 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Chili peppers are the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, and are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae.
"Dehydrated garlic" means garlic that has been dehydrated to no more than 6.8 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Garlic is an onion-like plant (Allium sativum) having a bulb that breaks up into separable cloves with a strong distinctive odor and flavor.
"Dehydrated onion" mean onion that has been dehydrated to no more than 5.5 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Onion (Allium cepa) is a plant that has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and the bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached.
"Dehydrated parsley" means parsley that has been dehydrated to no more than 5 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of Petroselinum in the family Apiaceae widely cultivated as an herb, a spice, and a vegetable.
"Dehydrated spinach" means spinach that has been dehydrated to no more than 7 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae.
"Deproteinized whey" means products manufactured through the cold ultrafiltration of sweet dairy whey, removing a portion of the protein from sweet whey to result in a non-hygroscopic, free-flowing and clean flavored powder containing greater than 80% carbohydrate (lactose) levels.
"Diced Tomatoes" means the food prepared from mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. The tomatoes are diced or crushed, and shall have had the stems and calyces removed.
"Distilled spirit" means a spirit made from the separation of alcohol and a fermented product.
"Dolime" is calcined dolomite.
"Dry color concentrate" means precipitated solids extracted from fruits and vegetables whose uses are for altering the color of materials and/or food.
"Ductile iron pipe" means pipe made of cast ferrous material in which a major part of the carbon content occurs as free graphite in a substantially nodular or spheroidal form. Pipes are used mainly to convey substances which can flow.
"EIA product code" means the code used to report a specific product to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) through EIA reporting forms.
"Fiberglass pulled" means the quantity of glass removed from the melting furnace in the fiberglass manufacturing process where "fiberglass" is defined as insulation products for thermal, acoustic, and fire applications manufactured using glass.
"Flat glass pulled" means the quantity of glass removed from the melting furnace in the flat glass manufacturing process where "flat glass" is defined as glass initially manufactured in a sheet form.
"Flavored Almonds" means pasteurized almond meats that are introduced to the flavoring process. Flavoring occurs when almonds are passed through a seasoning mixture to add various snack food flavors and then dehydrated to a desired moisture level for packaging.
"Flavored Pistachios" means hulled and dried pistachios that are introduced to the flavoring process. Flavoring occurs when pistachios are passed through a seasoning mixture to add various snack food flavors and then dehydrated to a desired moisture level for packaging. Flavored pistachios may include pistachios hulled and dried internally, or pistachios hulled and dried by other facilities.
"Fluid milk product" means a product that meets the definition of milk, skim milk, buttermilk, ultrafiltered milk, or cream.
"Freshwater diatomite filter aids" means inorganic mineral powders derived by processing freshwater diatomite which is fossilized single-celled algae found in lake beds. Filter aids are used in combination with filtration hardware to enhance filtration performance to separate unwanted solids from fluids.
"Fried potato chip" means a thin slice of potato that is deep fried until crunchy.
"Galvanized steel sheet" means steel coated with a thin layer of zinc to provide corrosion resistance for such products as garbage cans, storage tanks, or framing for buildings. Sheet steel normally must be cold-rolled prior to the galvanizing stage.
"Granulated refined sugar" means white refined sugar (99.9% sucrose), made by dissolving and purifying raw sugar then drying it to prevent clumping.
"Grape juice concentrate" means the liquid from crushed grapes, from the botanical genus Vitas, processed to remove water.
"Grape seed extract" means the extract from grape seeds containing concentrations of proanthocyanidin.
"Gypsum" means a mineral with the chemical formula CaSO4*2H2O.
"Horsepower tested" means the total horsepower of all turbine and generator set units tested prior to sale.
"Hot rolled steel sheet" means steel produced from the rolling mill that reduces a hot slab into a coil of specified thickness at a relatively high temperature.
"Imported protein" means protein found in pre-concentrated whey that is imported from other dairy facilities for further processing.
"Intermediate dairy ingredients" means intermediate (non-final) dairy product imported from other dairy facilities that enter the rehydrating process, which uses water and heat to manufacture powdered products.
"Lactose" means a white to creamy white crystalline product, possessing a mildly sweet taste. It may be anhydrous, contain one molecule of water of hydration, or be a mixture of both forms.
"Lager beer" means beer produced with bottom fermenting yeast strains, Saccharomyces uvarum (or carlsbergensis) at colder fermentation temperatures than ales.
"Lead and lead alloys" means lead or the metal alloy that combines lead and other elements such as antimony, selenium, arsenic, copper, tin, or calcium.
"Limestone" means a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
"Liquid Color Concentrate" means a fluid extract from fruits and/or vegetables reduced by driving off water and that has the purpose of altering the color of materials and/or food.
"Liquid Hydrogen" means hydrogen in a liquid state.
"Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows. Milk that is in final package form for beverage use shall have been pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized, and shall contain not less than 8 1/4 percent milk solids not fat and not less than 3 1/4 percent milk fat. Milk may have been adjusted by separating part of the milk fat from, or by adding cream to, concentrated milk, dry whole milk, skim milk, concentrated skim milk, or nonfat dry milk. Milk may be homogenized.
"Milk powder (high heat)" means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content less than 1.5 mg/g powder.
"Milk powder (low heat)" means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content greater than or equal to 6 mg/g powder.
"Milk powder (medium heat)" means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content greater than or equal to 1.51 mg/g powder and less than 6 mg/g powder.
"Milk Protein Concentrate" means milk powder obtained by concentrating skim milk through filtration processes so that the finished dry product contains 40 percent or more protein by weight. The filtration methods used capture essentially all of the casein and whey proteins contained in the raw material, resulting in a casein-to-whey protein ratio equivalent to that of the original milk."
"Nitric acid" means HNO3 of 100 percent purity.
"Non-Aseptic tomato juice" means tomato juice packaged using methods other than aseptic preparation.
"Non-aseptic tomato paste and tomato puree" means the sum of tomato paste and tomato puree packaged using methods other than aseptic preparation. Non-aseptic paste and puree is normalized to 24 percent tomato soluble solids. Non-aseptic paste and puree normalized to 24% TSS = (%TSS - raw TSS)/(24 - raw TSS).
"Non-aseptic whole and diced tomato" means the sum of whole and diced tomatoes packaged using methods other than aseptic preparation. Sum of non-aseptic whole and diced tomatoes = whole tomatoes + (diced tomatoes x 1.05).
"Non-thermal enhanced oil recovery" or "non-thermal EOR" means the process of using methods other than thermal EOR, which may include water flooding or CO2 injection, to increase the recovery of crude oil from a reservoir.
"On-purpose hydrogen gas" means pure molecular hydrogen gas produced by a process or processes dedicated to producing hydrogen (e.g., steam methane reforming).
"Pasteurized almonds" means raw almond meats that are introduced to the pasteurizing process. Pasteurizing partially sterilizes the almonds to destroy objectionable organisms without major chemical alteration of the almond meats.
"Pickled steel sheet" means hot rolled steel sheet that is sent through a series of hydrochloric acid baths that remove the oxides, and includes both finished pickled steel, and steel produced by the facility as an intermediate product for further processing.
"Pistachio" means the nut of the pistachio tree (Pistacia vera).
"Plaster" is calcined gypsum that is produced and sold as a finished product and is not used in the production of plasterboard at the same facility.
"Plasterboard" is a panel made of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper.
"Poultry deli product" means the products, including corn dogs, sausages, and franks, that contain a significant portion of pre-processed poultry, that are cooked and sold wholesale or retail, or transferred to other facilities.
"Pretzel" is a crisp biscuit made from dough formed into a knot or stick, flavored with salt, passed through a caustic hot water bath and baked in an oven.
"Proof Gallons" means one liquid gallon of distilled spirits that is 50% alcohol at 60 degrees F.
"Protein meal and fat" means meal, feather meal, and fat rendered product from poultry tissues including meat, viscera, bone, blood, and feathers.
"Raw TSS" means the average annual percent tomato soluble solids of raw tomatoes to be processed in a tomato processing facility.
"Rare earth elements" means a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides (Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Promethium, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, and Lutetium) plus Scandium and Yttrium.
"Rare earth oxide equivalent" means the mass of oxide if all of the rare earth elements in the product are isolated and converted to their oxide form.
"Recycled" refers to a material that is reused or reclaimed.
"Recycled boxboard" means containers of solid fiber made from recycled fibers, including cereal boxes, shoe boxes, and protective paper packaging for dry foods. It also includes folding paper cartons, set-up boxes, and similar boxboard products. Recycled boxboard is made from recycled fibers.
"Recycled linerboard" means types of paperboard made from recycled fibers that meet specific tests adopted by the packaging industry to qualify for use as the outer facing layer for corrugated board, from which shipping containers are made.
"Recycled medium" means the center segment of corrugated shipping containers, being faced with linerboard on both sides. Recycled medium is made from recycled fibers.
"Salt" means sodium chloride, determined as chloride and calculated as percent sodium chloride, by the method prescribed in "Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists," 13th Ed., 1980, sections 32.025 to 32.030, under the heading "Method III (Potentiometric Method)."
"Seamless rolled ring" means a metal product manufactured by punching a hole in a thick, round piece of metal, and then rolling and squeezing (or in some cases, pounding) it into a thin ring. Ring diameters can be anywhere from a few inches to 30 feet.
"Skim milk" means the product that results from the complete or partial removal of milk fat from milk.
"Soda ash equivalent" means the total mass of all soda ash, biocarb, Sodium Sulfate, Potassium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, and Sodium Chloride produced.
"Steel produced using an electric arc furnace" means steel produced by an electric arc furnace or "EAF." EAF means a furnace that produces molten steel and heats the charge materials with electric arcs from carbon electrodes. Furnaces that continuously feed direct-reduced iron ore pellets as the primary source of iron are not affected facilities within the scope of this definition of EAF.
"Stucco" means hemihydrate plaster (CaSO4*1/2H2O) produced by heating ("calcining") raw gypsum, thereby removing three-quarters of its chemically combined water.
"Sulfuric acid regeneration" means the same definition found in 95102(c).
"Thermal enhanced oil recovery" or "thermal EOR" means the process of using injected steam to increase the recovery of crude oil from a reservoir.
"Tin Plate" means thin sheet steel with a very thin coating of metallic tin. Tin plate also includes Tin Free Steel or TFS which has an extremely thin coating of metallic chromium and chromium oxide. Tin plate is used primarily in can making.
"Tomato juice" is the liquid obtained from mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. Tomato juice may contain salt, lemon juice, sodium bicarbonate, water, spices and/or flavoring. This food shall contain not less than 4.0 percent by weight tomato soluble solids.
"Tomato paste" is the food prepared from mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. Tomato paste is prepared by concentrating tomato ingredients until the food contains not less than 24.0 percent tomato soluble solids.
"Tomato puree" is the semisolid food prepared from mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. Tomato puree is prepared by concentrating tomato ingredients until the food contains not less than 8.0 percent but less than 24.0 percent tomato soluble solids.
"Tomato soluble solids" (TSS or NTSS) means the sucrose value of raw tomatoes or tomato product. For raw tomatoes, this value shall be determined by the methods prescribed in "Inspection Procedures" (2014) for Soluble Solids Testing -- Digital Refractometer, as published by the Processing Tomato Advisory Board (PTAB), which is hereby incorporated by reference. For the tomato products tomato juice, tomato paste, tomato puree, and whole and diced tomatoes, this value shall be determined by the method prescribed in "Inspection Procedures" (2014) for Soluble Solids Testing -- Digital Refractometer, as published by PTAB, or the "Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists," 13th Ed., 1980, sections 32.014 to 32.016 and 52.012 (AOAC, 1980), depending on availability. For instances in which no salt has been added, the sucrose value obtained from the referenced tables shall be considered the percent of tomato soluble solids. If salt has been added either intentionally or through the application of the acidified break, determine the percent of such added sodium chloride as specified in the regulation's definition of salt. Subtract the percentage sodium chloride from the percentage of total soluble solids found (sucrose value from the refractive index tables) and multiply the difference by 1.016. The resultant value is considered the percent of "tomato soluble solids." The centrifuges, centrifuge spin rate, centrifuge spin time, and other lab measurement equipment specified in AOAC (1980) may be exchanged with more modern equipment and measurement procedures where the operator deems necessary. Tomato soluble solids must be rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent of solids.
"Ultrafiltered milk" means raw or pasteurized milk or nonfat milk that is passed over one or more semipermeable membranes to partially remove water, lactose, minerals, and water soluble vitamins without altering the casein-to-whey protein ratio of the milk or nonfat milk and resulting in a liquid product.
"Waste gas" means a natural gas that contains a greater percentage of gaseous chemical impurities than the percentage of methane. For purposes of this definition, gaseous chemical impurities may include carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, or hydrogen sulfide.
"Whey protein concentrate" means the substance obtained by the removal of sufficient nonprotein constituents from pasteurized whey so that the finished dry product contains greater than 25% protein. Whey protein concentrate is produced by physical separation techniques such as precipitation, filtration, or dialysis. The acidity of whey protein concentrate may be adjusted by the addition of safe and suitable pH adjusting ingredients.
"Whole chicken and chicken parts" means the whole chicken or edible chicken parts (including breasts, thighs, wings, and drums) that are packaged for wholesale or retail sale; transferred to other facilities; or binned, sent to an on-site rendering plant, and rendered into protein meal and fat.
"Whole Tomatoes" is the food prepared from mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. The tomatoes are kept whole, and shall have had the stems and calyces removed.
"Air separation unit" means a refinery unit which separates air into its components including oxygen utilizing a cryogenic or other method.
"Alkylation/poly/dimersol" means a range of processes transforming C3/C4/C5 molecules into C7/C8/C9 molecules over an acidic catalyst. This can be accomplished by alkylation with sulfuric acid or hydrofluoric acid, polymerization with a C3 or C3/C4 olefin feed, or dimersol.
"Ammonia recovery unit" means a refinery unit in which ammonia-rich sour water stripper overhead is treated to separate ammonia suitable for reuse in the refinery, for fertilizer, for other sales, for the reduction of NOx emissions, or other commercial activities. This unit is the second stage of a two stage sour water stripping unit. The ammonia recovery unit may include the adsorber, stripper and fractionator.
"Aromatic saturation of distillates" means the saturation of aromatic rings over a fixed catalyst bed at low or medium pressure in the presence of hydrogen.
"AROMAX®" means a special application of catalytic reforming for the specific purpose of producing light aromatics.
"Aromatics production" means extraction of light aromatics from reformate and/or hydrotreated pyrolysis gasoline by a solvent.
"Asphalt production" means the processing required to produce asphalts and bitumen, including bitumen oxidation (mostly for road paving). This includes polymer-modified asphalt.
"Atmospheric Crude Distillation" means primary atmospheric distillation of crude oil and other feedstocks. The atmospheric crude distillation unit includes any ancillary equipment such as a crude desalter, naphtha splitting, gas plant and wet treatment of light streams for mercaptan removal and may have more than one distillation column.
"Benzene saturation" means a selective hydrogenation of benzene in gasoline streams over a fixed catalyst bed at moderate pressure.
"C4 isomer production" means conversion of n-butane into isobutane over a fixed catalyst bed in the presence of hydrogen at low to moderate pressure.
"C5/C6 isomer production -- including ISOSIV" means conversion of normal paraffins into isoparaffins over a fixed catalyst bed in the presence of hydrogen at low to moderate pressure.
"Complexity weighted barrel" or "CWB" means a metric created to evaluate the greenhouse gas efficiency of petroleum refineries and related processes. The CWB value for an individual refinery is calculated using actual refinery throughput to specified process units and emission factors for these process units. The emission factor is denoted as the CWB factor and is representative of the greenhouse gas emission intensity at an average level of energy efficiency, for the same standard fuel type for each process unit for production, and for average process emissions of the process units across a sample of refineries. Each CWB factor is expressed as a value weighted relative to atmospheric crude distillation.
"Conradson carbon level" means a measurement describing the mass of carbon residue which an oil deposits when evaporated, as defined by ASTM D189 - 06(2010)e1 "Standard Test Method for Conradson Carbon Residue of Petroleum Products" (2010), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Conventional naphtha hydrotreating" means desulfurization of virgin and cracked naphthas over a fixed catalyst bed at moderate pressure in the presence of hydrogen. For cracked naphthas this also involves saturation of olefins.
"Cryogenic LPG recovery" means a refinery unit in which liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is extracted from refinery gas streams through cooling and removing the condensate heavy fractions. The processes and equipment for this unit may include refrigeration, drier, compressor, absorber, stripper and fractionation.
"Cumene production" means the alkylation of benzene with propylene.
"Cyclohexane production" means hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane over a catalyst at high pressure.
"Delayed Coker" means a refinery unit which conducts a semi-continuous process where the heat of reaction is supplied by a fired heater. Coke is produced in alternate drums that are swapped at regular intervals. Coke is cut out of full coke drums as a product. For the purposes of analysis, facilities include coke handling and storage.
"Desalination" means a refinery's desalination of seawater or contaminated water.
"Desulfurization of C4-C6 Feeds" means desulfurization of light naphthas over a fixed catalyst bed, at moderate pressure in the presence of hydrogen.
"Desulfurization of pyrolysis gasoline/naphtha" means selective or non-selective desulfurization of pyrolysis gasoline (by-product of light olefins production) and other streams over a fixed catalyst bed, at moderate pressure in the presence of hydrogen.
"Diolefin to olefin saturation of gasoline" means selective saturation of diolefins over a fixed catalyst bed, at moderate pressure in the presence of hydrogen to improve stability of thermally cracked and coker gasolines.
"Distillate hydrotreating" means desulfurization of distillate blends of components such as diesel and heating oil over a fixed catalyst bed at low or medium pressure in the presence of hydrogen.
"Ethylbenzene production" means the process of combining benzene and ethylene to form ethylbenzene.
"FCC gasoline hydrotreating with minimum octane loss" means selective desulfurization of FCC gasoline cuts with minimum olefins saturation, over a fixed catalyst bed, at moderate pressure and in the presence of hydrogen.
"Flare gas recovery" means a refinery unit in which flare gas is captured and compressed for other uses. Usually recovered flare gas is treated and routed to the refinery fuel gas system. The equipment for this process may include the compressor and separator.
"Flexicoker" means a refinery unit which conducts a proprietary process incorporating a fluid coker and where coke is gasified to produce a low BTU gas which is used to supply the refinery heaters and surplus coke is drawn off as a product.
"Flue gas desulfurizing" means a process in which sulfur dioxide is removed from flue gases with contaminants. This often involves an alkaline sorbent which captures sulfur dioxide and transforms it into a solid product. Flue gas desulfurizing systems can be of the regenerative type or the non-regenerative type. The processes and equipment for this process may include the contactor, catalyst/reagent regeneration, scrubbing circulation and solids handling.
"Fluid Catalytic Cracking" means cracking of a hydrocarbon stream typically consisting of gasoils and residual feedstocks over a catalyst. The finely divided catalyst is circulated in a fluidized state from the reactor where it becomes coated with coke to the regenerator where coke is burned off. The hot regenerated catalyst returning to the reactor may supply the heat for the endothermic cracking reaction and for most of the downstream fractionation of cracked products.
"Fluid Coker" means a continuous process where the fluidized powder-like coke is transferred between the cracking reactor and the coke burning vessel and burned for process heat production. Surplus coke is drawn off as a product.
"Fuel gas sales treating & compression" means treatment and compression of refinery fuel gas for sale to a third party.
"Houdry catalytic cracking" means a method of catalytic cracking which uses a fixed or moving bed of pellets of an aluminum silicate type catalyst. The catalyst is not fluidized.
"Hydrodealkylation" means dealkylation of toluene and xylenes into benzene over a fixed catalyst bed in the presence of hydrogen at low to moderate pressure.
"Kerosene hydrotreater" means a refinery process unit which treats and upgrades kerosene and gasoil streams using aromatic saturation of distillates, distillate hydrotreating, middle distillate dewaxing, the S-ZorbTM process for kerosene and gasoil or selective hydrotreating of C3-C5 streams for alkylation.
"Lube catalytic dewaxing" means the catalytic breakdown of long paraffinic chains in intermediate streams for the manufacture of lube oils.
"Lube solvent dewaxing" means the solvent removal of long paraffinic chains (wax) from intermediate streams in the manufacture of lube oils. This may include solvent regeneration. Different processes use different solvents, such as chlorocarbon, MEK/toluene, MEK/MIBK, or propane.
"Lube solvent extraction" means the solvent extraction of aromatic compounds from intermediate streams for the manufacture of base lube oils. This includes solvent regeneration. Different processes use different solvents, such as Furfural, NMP, phenol, or sulfur dioxide.
"Lube/Wax hydrofining" means the hydrotreating of lube oil fractions and wax for improving the quality of the lube and wax.
"Lubricant hydrocracking" means hydrocracking of heavy feedstocks for the manufacture of lube oils.
"Methanol synthesis" means the recombination of CO2 and hydrogen to produce methanol. Methanol synthesis is only applicable when a refinery produces hydrogen via partial oxidation.
"Middle distillate dewaxing" means the cracking of long paraffinic chains in gasoils to improve cold flow properties over a fixed catalyst bed at low or medium pressure in the presence of hydrogen. This process includes the desulfurization step.
"Mild Residual FCC" means fluid catalytic cracking when the feed has a Conradson carbon level of 2.25% to 3.5% by weight.
"Naphtha/Distillate Hydrocracker" means a refinery process unit which conducts cracking of a hydrocarbon stream typically consisting of gasoils and distillates over a fixed catalyst bed, at high pressure and in the presence of hydrogen. The process combines cracking and hydrogenation reactions.
"Naphtha hydrotreater" means a refinery process unit that treats and upgrades naphtha/gasoline and lighter streams using any combination of one or more of the following processes: benzene saturation, desulfurization of C4-C6 feeds, conventional naphtha hydrotreating, diolefin to olefin saturation of gasoline, FCC gasoline hydrotreating with minimum octane loss, olefinic alkylation of thio sulfur, desulfurization of pyrolysis gasoline/naphtha. For naphtha/distillates, selective hydrotreating or the S-ZorbTM process may be used.
"Non-Crude Input" means the total volume of non-crude raw materials processed in process units at the refinery, excluding returns from a lube refiner or a chemical plant within a refining/petrochemical complex and excluding non-processed blendstock. Non-crude input excludes crude petroleum, hydrogen, natural gas, and any input to a hydrogen production unit.
"Olefinic alkylation of thio sulfur" means a gasoline desulfurization process in which thiophenes and mercaptans are catalytically reacted with olefins to produce higher-boiling sulphur compounds removable by distillation. This process does not utilize hydrogen.
"Other FCC" means early catalytic cracking processes on fixed catalyst beds, including Houdry catalytic cracking and Thermofor catalytic cracking.
"Oxygenates" means ethers that are produced by reacting an alcohol with olefins.
"Paraxylene production" means the physical separation of paraxylene from mixed xylenes.
"Process CWB" means the contribution to the total CWB of a refinery that results from summing, for each on-site CWB unit, the product of the CWB factor and annual throughput. Process CWB excludes CWB contributions from off-sites and non-energy utilities and non-crude sensible heat that are calculated using total refinery input and non-crude input.
"Propane/Propylene splitter (propylene production)" means a refinery unit that conducts separation of propylene from other mostly olefinic C3/C4 molecules generally produced in an FCC or coker. This unit produces chemical or polymer grade propylene.
"POX syngas for fuel" means the production of synthesis gas by gasification (partial oxidation) of heavy residues. This includes syngas clean-up.
"Reactor for selective hydrotreating" means a special configuration where a distillation/fractionation column contains a solid catalyst that converts diolefins in FCC gasoline to olefins or where the catalyst bed is in a preheat train reactor vessel in front of the column.
"Reformer -- including AROMAX" means a refinery unit which increases the octane rating of naphtha by dehydrogenation of naphthenic rings and paraffin isomerisation over a noble metal catalyst at low pressure and high temperature. The process also produces hydrogen.
"Residual FCC" means fluid catalytic cracking when the feed has a Conradson carbon level of greater than or equal to 3.5% by weight.
"Residual hydrotreater" means a refinery unit which conducts desulfurization of residues over a fixed catalyst bed at high pressure and in the presence of hydrogen. It results in a limited degree of conversion of the residue feed into lighter products.
"Residual Hydrocracker" means a refinery unit which conducts hydrocracking of residual feedstocks. Different processes involve continuous or semi-continuous catalyst replenishment. The residual hydrocracker unit must process residuum with a Conradson carbon level of at least 3.5% by weight.
"S-ZorbTM process for kerosene and gasoil" means desulfurization of gasoil using an absorption process. This process does not utilize hydrogen.
"S-ZorbTM process for naphtha/distillates" means desulfurization of naphtha/gasoline streams using a proprietary fluid-bed hydrogenation adsorption process in the presence of hydrogen.
"Selective hydrotreating of C3-C5 streams for alkylation" means selective saturation of diolefins for alkylation over a fixed catalyst bed, at moderate pressure and in the presence of hydrogen, or hydrotreatment of distillates for conversion of diolefins to olefins.
"Solvent deasphalter" means a refinery unit which uses a solvent such as propane, butane or a heavier solvent to remove asphaltines from a residual oil stream and produce asphalt and a deasphalted gasoil.
"Special Fractionation" means fractionation processes excluding solvents, propylene and aromatics fractionation, which are accomplished by a deethanizer, depropanizer, deisobutanizer, debutanizer, deisopentanizer, depentanizer, deisohexanizer, dehexanizer, deisoheptanizer, deheptanizer, naphtha splitter, alkylate splitter or reformate splitter.
"Standard FCC" means fluid catalytic cracking when the feed has a Conradson carbon level of less than 2.25% by weight.
"Sulfur Recovery" means a process where hydrogen sulfide is converted to elemental sulfur."
"Sulfuric acid regeneration" means a catalytic process in which spent acid is regenerated to concentrated sulfuric acid. The equipment for this process may include the combustor, waste heat boiler, converter, absorber, SO3 recycle, gas cleaning including electrostatic precipitator and amine regenerator.
"Thermal Cracking" means thermal cracking of distillate feedstocks. A thermal cracking unit may include a vacuum flasher. Units that combine visbreaking and thermal cracking of distillate generate a contribution for both processes based on the residue and the distillate throughput respectively.
"Thermofor catalytic cracking" means a method of catalytic cracking in which gravity is used to pass the catalyst through the feedstock or to pass the feedstock through the catalytic reactor bed. The catalyst is not fluidized.
"Toluene disproportionation/transalkylation means a fixed-bed catalytic process for the conversion of toluene to benzene and xylene in the presence of hydrogen.
"Total Refinery Input" means the total volume of the following brought in to the refinery: crude oil and condensate, excluding basic sediment and water; finished product additives such as dyes, diesel pour point depressants and cetane improvers; antiknock compounds; and other raw materials, including crude diluents, feedstock from outside the refinery which is processed in other process units or blend stock blended into refinery products. Total refinery input excludes hydrogen, natural gas, and any input to a hydrogen production unit.
"Vacuum Distillation" means distillation of atmospheric residues under vacuum. Some units may have more than one main distillation column.
"Visbreaker" means a refinery unit which conducts mild thermal cracking of residual feedstocks to produce some distillates and reduce the viscosity of the cracked residue. It may include a vacuum flasher. Units that combine visbreaking and thermal cracking of distillate generate a contribution for both processes based on the residue and the distillate throughput respectively.
"VGO Hydrotreater" means a refinery unit which conducts desulfurization of a hydrocarbon stream typically made up of vacuum gasoils and cracked gasoils, principally destined to be used as FCC feed, over a fixed catalyst bed at medium or high pressure in the presence of hydrogen.
"Wax deoiling" means solvent removal of lighter hydrocarbons from wax obtained from lube dewaxing. Different proprietary processes use different solvents, such as MEK/toluene, MEK/MIBK, or propane.
"Xylene isomerization" means isomerization of mixed xylenes to paraxylene.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 17, § 95102
2. Relocation of subarticle 1 heading to precede section 95100 and amendment of section and NOTE filed 12-14-2011; operative 1-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2011, No. 50).
3. Amendment filed 12-19-2012; operative 1-1-2013 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2012, No. 51).
4. Editorial correction of subsection (a)(141) (Register 2013, No. 38).
5. Amendment filed 12-31-2013; operative 1-1-2014 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2014, No. 1).
6. Amendment filed 12-31-2014; operative 1-1-2015 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2015, No. 1).
7. Amendment of section, including removal of subsection designators within subsections (a), (b) and (c), filed 9-1-2017; operative 1-1-2018 (Register 2017, No. 35).
8. Amendment of definitions of "Electricity importers," "Facility" and "First deliverer of electricity" and new definition of "Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser" filed 3-29-2019; operative 4-1-2019 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2019, No. 13).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 38510, 38530, 39600, 39601, 39607, 39607.4 and 41511, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 38530, 39600 and 41511, Health and Safety Code.
2. Relocation of subarticle 1 heading to precede section 95100 and amendment of section and Note filed 12-14-2011; operative 1-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2011, No. 50).
3. Amendment filed 12-19-2012; operative 1-1-2013 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2012, No. 51).
4. Editorial correction of subsection (a)(141) (Register 2013, No. 38).
5. Amendment filed 12-31-2013; operative 1-1-2014 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2014, No. 1).
6. Amendment filed 12-31-2014; operative 1/1/2015 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2015, No. 1).
7. Amendment of section, including removal of subsection designators within subsections (a), (b) and (c), filed 9-1-2017; operative 1/1/2018 (Register 2017, No. 35).
8. Amendment of definitions of "Electricity importers," "Facility" and "First deliverer of electricity" and new definition of "Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser" filed 3-29-2019; operative 4/1/2019 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2019, No. 13).