(Adopted February 4, 1977)(Amended April 1, 1977)

(Amended September 2, 1977)(Amended November 4, 1988)

(Amended July 9, l993XAmended November 17, 1995)

(Amended March 13, 1998)(Amended June 12, 1998)

RULE 102. DEW~ITION OF TERMS

Except as otherwise specifically provided in these rules and except where the

context otherwise indicates, words used in these rules are used in exactly the same, sense

as the same words are used in Division 26 ofthe Health and Safety Code.

AGRICULTURAL BURNTNG means open outdoor fires used in agricultural

operations in the growing of crops or raising of fowls or animals, or open outdoor fires

used in forest management, range improvement, or the improvement of land for wildlife

and game habitat or disease and pest prevention. Agricultural burning also includes open

outdoor fires used in the operation or maintenance of a system for the delivery of water

for the purposes specified above.

AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS means any operation occurring on a ranch or

farm directly related to the growing of crops, or raising of fowls or animals for the primary

purpose of making a profit or for a livelihood.

AGRICULTURAL WASTES means unwanted or unsalable materials produced

wholly from agricultural operations, other than forest or range management operations,

directly related to the growing of crops or animals for the primary purpose of making a

profit or for a livelihood. The term does not include wastes created by land use

conversion to non-agricultural purposes unless the destruction of such waste by open

outdoor fire is ordered by the County or State Agricultural Commissioner upon his

determination that the waste is infested with infections transmittable or contagious plant

disease which is an immediate hazard to agricultural operations conducted on adjoining or

nearby property.

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL OFFICER means the Executive Officer, or

designee of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

AIR CONTAMINANT or air pollutant means any discharge, release, or other

propagation into the atmosphere directly or indirectly caused by man and includes, but is

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not limited to, smoke, charred paper, dust, soot, grime, carbon, fumes, gases, odors,

particulate matters, acids or any combination thereof

ATMOSPHERE (This definition was adopted on November 16, 1954 for the

Metropolitan Zone and on November 23, 1973 for the Southern Zone. It is currently

applicable only to the Metropolitan and Southern Zones.) “Atmosphere” means the air

that envelopes or surrounds the earth. Where air pollutants are emitted into a building not

designed specifically as a piece of air pollution control equipment, such emission into the

building shall be considered an emission into the atmosphere.

BASIC EQUIPMENT means any article, machine, equipment or contrivance

which causes the issuance of air contaminants.

BREAKDOWN means a condition caused by an accidental fire or non-preventable

mechanical or electrical failure.

CLEAN AIR SOLVENT is a VOC-containing material.used to perform solvent

cleaning, solvent finishing, or surface preparation operations or activities which:

(A) Contains no more than fifty (50) grams of VOC per liter of material, as

applied:

(B) Has a VOC composite partial vapor pressure less than 5 mm Hg at 20°C

(68°F);

(C) Reacts to form ozone at a rate not exceeding that oftoluene;

(D) Contains no compounds classified as Hazardous Air Pollutaiits (HAPs) by

the Federal Clean Air Act, or Ozone Depleting Compounds (ODCs) and

Global Warming Compounds (GWCs) as defined by the District, and

(E) Has been certified by the District to meet the criteria stated in (A) through

(D) according to test methods and procedures approved by the District.

COMBUSTIBLE REFUSE means any solid or liquid combustible waste material

containing carbon in a free or combined state.

COMBUSTION CONTAMINANTS are particulate matter discharged into the

atmosphere from the burning of any kind of material containing carbon in a free or

combined state.

COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE means the date or dates by which a source or

category of sources is required to comply with specific emission limitations contained in

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any air pollution rule, regulation, or statute and with any increment of progress toward

such compliance.

CONTROL EQUIPMENT means air pollution control equipment which

eliminates, reduces or controls the issuance of air contaminants.

DISTRICT means the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

DUSTS are minute solid particles released into the air by natural forces or by

mechanical processes including, but not limited to, crushing, grinding, milling, drilling,

demolishing, shoveling, conveying, covering, bagging, and sweeping.

EXECUTIVE OFFICER means the Executive Officer or designee of the South

Coast Air Quality Management District.

EQUIPMENT means any article, machine, or other contrivance.

EXEMPT Compounds are any ofthe following compounds

(A) Group I

1,1, 1,2,3,4,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane (HFC-43-lOmee)

1 ,3-dichloro-l, 1 ,2,2,3-pentafluoropropane (}ICFC 225 cb)

3 ,3-dichloro- 1,1,1 ,2,2-pentafluoropropane (HCFC 225ca)

acetone

ethane

chiorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22)

trffluoromethane (HFC-23)

2,2-dichioro- 1,1,1 -trifluoroethane (HCFC- 123)

2-chloro- 1,1,1 ,2-tetrafluoroethane çHCFC- 124)

pentafluoroethane (HFC-125)

1, 1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134)

1, 1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a)

1, 1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141b)

1 -chloro- 1,1 -difluoroethane (HCFC- 1 42b)

1,1, 1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a)

1,1 -difluoroethane (HFC-l 52a)

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cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated alkanes

cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated ethers with no

unsaturations

cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated tertiary amines

with no unsaturations

sulfur-containing perfluorocarbons with no unsaturations and with

sulfur bonds only to carbon and fluorine.

difluorometh~ne (HFC-32)

1,1,1,2,2,3,3 ,4,4-nonafluoro-4-methoxy-butane (C4F9OCH3)

2-(d±fluoromethoxymethyl)- 1,1, 1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane

[(CF3)2CFCF2OCH3]

1 -ethoxy-1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,4-nonafluorobutane (C4F90C2H5)

2-(ethoxydifluoromethyl)- 1,1, 1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane

[(CF3)2CFCF2OC2H5J

parachlorobenzotrifluoride (PCBTF)

(B) Groupil

methylene chloride (dichioromethane)

1,1, 1-trichioroethane (methyl chloroform)

trichiorofluoromethane (CFC-1 1)

dichiorodifluoromethane (CFC-12)

1,1 ,2-trichloro- I ,2,2-trifluoroethane (CFC- 113)

1 ,2-dichloro- 1, 1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (CFC-1 14)

chloropentafluoroethane (CFC-l 15)

cyclic, branched, or linear, completely methylated sioxanes

(VMS)

tetrachioroethylene (perchloroethylene)*

ethyffluoride (HFC-161)

1, 1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropane (HFC-236fa)

1, 1,2,2,3-pentafluoropropane (HFC-245ca)

1, 1,2,3,3-pentafluoropropafle (HFC-245ea)

1,1,1,2,3 -pentafluoropropane (HFC-245eb)

1,1,1,3,3 -pentafluoropropane (HFC-245fa)

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1,1,1,2,3,3 -hexafluoropropane (HFC-23 6ea)

1,1,1,3,3 -pentafluorobutane (HFC-3 65mfc)

chiorofluoromethane (HCFC-3 1)

1,2-dichioro- 1,1 ,2-trifluoroethane (HCFC-123a)

1 chloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-151a)

*The listing oftetrachioroethylene (perchloroethylene) as a Group II Exempt

Compound shall become effective December 2, 1997.

The use of Group II compounds and/or carbon tetrachioride may be restricted in

the fhture because they are either toxic, potentially toxic, upper-atmosphere ozone

depleters, or cause other environmental impacts. By January 1, 1996,

chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), 1,1,1-trichioroethane (methyl chloroform), and carbon

tetrachloiide were phased out in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulation

Title 40, Part 82 (December 10, 1993).

Whenever there is a conflict between the definition of exempt compounds of

VOCs in this rule and the definition of exempt compounds of VOCs in another

District rule, the definition in Rule 102 shall apply.

FLEET VEHICLES means gasoline-powered motor vehicles as defined by

Section 415 ofthe Vehicle Code and which are operated from one business address.

FUGITIVE DUST means any solid particulate matter that becomes airborne, other

than that emitted from an exhaust stack, directly or indirectly as a result of the activities of

man.

GASOLINE means any petroleum distillate having a Reid vapor pressure, of

200 mm Hg (3.9 pounds per square inch), or greater.

HEARING BOARD means the Hearing Board of the South Coast Air Quality

Management District.

INCREMENTS OF PROGRESS means steps to be taken by an owner or operator

to bring a source of air contaminants into compliance. (See definition of “Schedule of

Increments ofProgress.”)

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LOADING FACILITY means any aggregation or combination of organic liquid

loading equipment which is both possessed by one person, and located so that all the

organic liquid loading outlets, for such aggregation or combination of loading equipment

can be encompassed within any circle of 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter.

MOTOR VEHICLE is a vehicle which is self-propelled.

MULTIPLE-CHAMBER INCll~iERATOR means any equipment, structure or part

of a structure, used to dispose of combustible refuse by burning, consisting of three or

more refractory lined combustion chambers, physically separated by refractory walls,

interconnected by gas passage ports or ducts.

OIL-EFFLUENT WATER SEPARATOR means any tank, box, sump or other

container in which any petroleum or product thereof; floating on or entrained or contained

in water entering such tank, box, sump, or other container, is physically separated and

removed from such water prior to outfall, drainage, or recovery of such water.

ORCHARD HEATER or citrus grove heater means any equipment burning any

type of fuel or material capable of being used, for the purpose of giving protection from

frost damage. Equipment commonly known as Wmd Machines are not included.

ORGANIC MATERIAL means a chemical compound of carbon excluding carbon

monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic carbides, metallic carbonates and

ammonium carbonate.

ORGANIC SOLVENTS include diluents and thinners and are defined as organic

materials which are liquids at standard conditions and which are used as dissolvers,

viscosity reducers or cleaning agents, except that such material exhibiting a boiling point

higher than 104°C (2 19°F) at 0.5 mm Hg absolute pressure or having an equivalent vapor

pressure shall not be considered to be solvents unless exposed to temperatures exceeding

104°C (219°F).

OZONE-DEPLETING COMPOUNDS (ODCs) are Class I substances identified

in 40 CFR, Part 82, Appendix A, Subpart A, including, but not limited to the following

compounds:

1,1,1 -trichloroethane (methyl chloroform)

trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-1 1)

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dichiorodifluoromethane (CFC- 12)

1,1 ,2-trichloro- 1 ,2,2,-trifluoroethane (CFC- 113)

1 ,2-dichloro-1, 1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (CFC- 114)

chioropentafluoroethane (CFC-1 15)

PARTICULATE MATTER means any material, except uncombined water, which

exists in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid at standard conditions.

PPM means parts per million by volume.

PERSON means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership,

business trust, corporation, company, contractor, supplier, installer, user or owner, or any

state or local governmental agency or public district or any other officer or employee

thereof PERSON also means the United States or its agencies to the extent authorized by

Federal law.

PHOTOCHEMICALLY REACTIVE SOLVENT means any solvent with an

aggregate of more than 20 percent of its total volume composed of the chemical

compounds classified below or which exceeds any of the following individual percentage

composition limitations, referred to the total volume of solvent:

(a) A combination of hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ethers, esters or

ketones having an olefinic or cycloolefinic type of unsaturation except

perchioroethylene: 5 percent;

(b) A combination of aromatic compounds with eight or more carbon atoms to

•the molecule except ethylbenzene, methyl benzoate and phenyl acetate:

8 percent;

(c) A combination of ethylbenzene, ketones having branched hydrocarbon

structures, trichloroethylene or toluene: 20 percent.

Whenever any organic solvent or any constituent of an organic solvent may be

classified from its chemical structure into more than one of the above groups of organic

compounds, it shall be. considered as a member of the most reactive chemical group, that

is, that group having the least allowable percent ofthe total volume of solvents.

PM- 10 means the particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than or

equal to 10 microns as measured by applicable State and Federal reference test methods.

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PROCESS WEIGHT means the total weight of all materials introduced into any

specific process which may discharge contaminants into the atmosphere. Solid fuels

charged will be considered as part of the process weight, but liquid gaseous fuels and air

will not.

PROCESS WEIGHT PER HOUR means the total process weight divided by the

number of hours in one complete operation from the beginning of any given process to the

completion thereof; excluding any time during which the equipment is idle.

RECEPTOR AREA means that specified geographic area in which the air

contaminants emitted from a source area are present or to which they may be transported.

REDUCTION OF AN[MAL MATTER means any heated process, used for

rendering, cooking, drying, dehydrating, digesting, evaporating and protein concentrating

of animal matter.

REGULATION means one of the major subdivisions of the Rules of the South

Coast Air Quality Management District.

RULE means a rule ofthe South Coast Air Quality Management District.

SCHEDULE OF INCREMENTS OF PROGRESS means a statement of dates

when various steps are to be taken to bring a source of air contaminants into compliance

with emission standards and shall include, to the extent feasible, the following:

(a) The dates of submittal of the final plan for the control of emissions of air

contaminants from that source to the District.

(b) The date by which contracts for emission control systems or process

modifications will be awarded, or the date by which orders will be issued

for the purchase of component parts to accomplish emission control or

process modification.

(c) The date of initiation of on-site construction or installation of emission

control equipment or process change.

(d) The date by which on-site construction or installation of emission control

equipment or process modification is to be completed.

(e) The date by which final compliance is to be achieved.

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(f) Such other dates by which other appropriate and necessary steps shall be

taken to permit close and effective supervision of progress toward timely

compliance.

SMALL BUSINESS means a business which is independently owned and operated

and meets the following criteria, or if affiliated with another concern, the combined

activities ofboth concerns shall meet these criteria:

(a) the number of employees is 10 or less; and

(b) the total gross annual receipts are $500,000 or less; or

(c) not-for-profit training center.

For the purpose of qualifying for assistance offered by the District’s Small Business

Assistance Office only, a small business means a business with total gross annual receipts

of $5,000,000 or less, or a business with a total number of employees of 100 or less.

SOLID PARTICULATE MATTER means particulate matter which exists as a

solid at standard conditions.

SOURCE AREA means that specified geographic area in which air contaminants

are emitted.

STANDARD CONDITIONS are a gas temperature of 60°F and a gas pressure of

760 mm Hg (14.7 pounds per square inch) absolute.

SUBMERGED FILL PIPE means any fill pipe the discharge opening of which is

completely submerged when the liquid level is 15 centimeters (6 inches) above the bottom

of the container; or when applied to a container which is loaded from the side, it means

any fill pipe the opening of which is entirely submerged when the liquid level is

45 centimeters (18 inches) above the bottom ofthe container.

VEHICLE is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved,

or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved by human power or used exclusively

upon stationary rails or tracks.

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC) is any volatile compound of

carbon, excluding methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, metallic

carbides or carbonates, ammonium carbonate, and exempt compounds.

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