Reduction in the Release of Volatile Organic Compounds (Storage and Loading of Volatile Petroleum Liquids) Regulations — 1
ation of a combustible vapour to the LEL of that vapour, expressed as a percentage. ( pourcentage de la limite inférieure d’explosivité ou pourcentage LIE ) occupied building means a structure located outside of a facility’s property boundary that is used as a residence, workplace, place of education, medical establishment, childcare establishment or social or community centre, including a mobile home or portable building, but does not include (a) other mobile structures such as a tent, trailer or houseboat; (b) structures in which persons are present for less than one hour per day; or (c) structures whose initial construction began after the day on which these Regulations first applied to the facility. ( bâtiment occupé ) operator , in respect of a facility, means (a) if there is one person who operates, has charge of, manages or controls the facility, that person; (b) if there is more than one person who operates, has charge of, manages or controls the facility, the person who, under a written agreement between all those persons, is designated to be the operator; and (c) if the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) cannot be identified, the owner of the facility. ( exploitant ) petroleum means (a) naturally occurring hydrocarbons, such as natural gas, natural gas condensate, crude oil or bitumen; (b) hydrocarbon derivatives of the substances referred to in paragraph (a), such as fuels, lubricating oils, petrochemicals or asphalt; (c) coal tar and coal tar distillates; or (d) synthetic or semi-synthetic analogues of the substances referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c). ( pétrole ) petroleum processing equipment means equipment that is used to physically or chemically separate, transform or modify petroleum, including a distillation column, reactor or coker, but does not include equipment used only for storing, handling or blending petroleum, such as a tank, loading rack, pump or pipeline. ( équipement de traitement du pétrole ) population centre means a population centre — as defined by Statistics Canada in its publication entitled Dictionary, Census of Population, 2021 — with a population greater than 20,000. ( centre de population ) pressure-vacuum vent means a device that permits the flow of gas to or from the environment in the event of excess pressure or vacuum inside a fixed roof tank.( évent à pression-dépression ) primary seal means, as the case may be, (a) on a floating roof that has two or more rim seals, the rim seal that is mounted closest to the surface of the liquid; or (b) on a tank that has only one rim seal, that rim seal. ( joint primaire ) qualified professional means a scientist or technologist who specializes in an applied science or technology applicable to their duty or function, such as engineering, engineering technology or chemistry. ( professionnel qualifié ) scheduled maintenance means maintenance of equipment that is scheduled to be performed on or before a date known to the operator of a facility in order to (a) comply with the design specifications of the equipment; (b) adhere to a schedule or project plan established by the operator in respect of the equipment; or (c) ensure that the equipment complies with a regulatory requirement. ( entretien prévu ) secondary seal means any rim seal mounted above the primary seal on a floating roof that has two or more rim seals. ( joint secondaire ) standard m 3 , in respect of the volume of a fluid, means cubic metres, when the fluid’s volume is measured at a temperature of 15°C and an absolute pressure of 101.325 kPa. ( m 3 normalisé ) switch loading means the loading of a liquid that is not a volatile petroleum liquid into a vehicle tank that previously contained a volatile petroleum liquid without, before the liquid is loaded, the vapours in the vehicle tank being purged to a vapour control system or the vehicle tank being washed with a liquid that is not a volatile petroleum liquid. ( chargement en alternance ) tank means a tank, vessel, reservo