RULE 102 DEFINITIONS

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 the Health and Safety Code of the

State of California.

Agricultural Burning means open outdoor fires used in

agricultural operations in the management, range

improvement, or the improvement of land for wildlife and

game habitat or disease or pest prevention or the use of

open outdoor fires used in the operation or the maintenance

of a system for the delivery of water.

Agricultural Operation means the growing and harvesting of

crops, raising of fowl or animals for the primary purpose of

making a profit, or providing a livelihood, or the

conduction of agricultural research or instruction by an

educational institution.

Agricultural Wastes means the unwanted or unsellable

materials produced wholly from agricultural operations and

materials not produced from agricultural operations, but

which are intimately related to the growing or harvesting of

crops.

Air Contaminant or Pollutant means any discharge, release,

or other propagation into the atmosphere directly, and

includes, but is not limited to, smoke, dust, charred paper,

soot, grime, carbon, noxious acids, fumes, gases, odors, or

particulate matter, or any combination thereof.

Air Pollution Control Officer means the Air Pollution

Control Officer of the Air Pollution Control District of

Butte County.

Alteration means any addition to, enlargement or

replacement of, or any major modification or change of the

design, capacity, process, or arrangement, or any increase

in the connected loading of equipment or control apparatus,

which will significantly increase or effect the kind or

amount of air contaminant emitted.

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Approved Ignition Devices means those instruments or

materials that will ignite open fires without the production

of black smoke by the ignition device. This would include

such items as liquid petroleum gas, butane, or diesel oil

burners, flares, or other similar materials as approved by

the Air Pollution Control Officer. This does not include

tires, tar, tar paper, oil and other similar materials.

ARB means the California State Air Resources Board, or any

person authorized to act on its behalf.

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.

Board means the Air Pollution Control Board of the Air

Pollution Control District of Butte County.

Brush Treated means the material has been felled, crushed or

up-rooted with mechanical equipment, or has been desiccated

with herbicides.

Change of Location means any transfer of an existing

permitted source from one location to another not on the

same property or facility.

Combustible or Flammable means any garbage, rubbish, trash,

rags, paper, boxes, crates, excelsior, ashes, offal, carcass

of a dead animal, petroleum product waste or any other

combustible or flammable refuse material.

Combustion Contaminant means any particulate matter

discharged into the atmosphere from the burning of any

material which contains carbon in either the free or the

combined state.

Condensed Fumes means minute solid particles generated by

the condensation of vapors from solid matter after

volatilization from the molten state, or may be generated by

sublimation, distillation, calcination, or chemical

reaction, when these processes create airborne particles.

Construction—Demolition Debris means any material associated

with the construction or demolition of any building,

dwelling, or other man—made structures, including but not

limited to lumber, tar paper, roofing material, wiring,

flooring material, insulation, and plywood.

Controlled Pollutant means any air contaminant for which an

ambient and/or emission standard exists at the county, state

or federal level.

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Designated Agency means any agency designated by the ARB and

( Butte County Air Pollution Control District as having

authority to issue Agricultural Burn Permits.

District means the Air Pollution Control District of Butte

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Dust means the minute solid particles released into the air

by natural forces or by mechanical processes such as

crushing, grinding, milling, drilling, demolishing,

shoveling, conveying, covering, bagging, sweeping, or other

similar process.

Emission means the act of releasing or discharging air

contaminants into the atmosphere from any source.

Emission Point means the place, located in a horizont4l

plane and vertical elevation, at which an emission enters

the atmosphere.

Floating Roof consists of a pontoon—type or double—deck type

roof, resting on the surface of the liquid contents and

equipped with a closure seal, or seals, to close the space

between the roof edge and tank wall. The control equipment

provided for in this section shall not be used if the

gasoline or petroleum distillate has a vapor pressure of

11.0 pounds per square inch absolute or greater under actual

storage conditions. All tank gauging and sampling devices

shall be gas—tight except when gauging or sampling is taking

place.

Flue u~eans any duct or passage for air, gases or the like,

such as a stack or chimney.

Forest Management Burning means the use of open fires, as

part of a forest management practice, to remove forest

debris. Forest management practices include timber

operations, silviculture practices or forest production

practices.

Fossil Fuel—Fired. Steam Generator means a furnace or boiler

used in the process of burning fossil fuel for the primary

purpose of producing steam by heat transfer. “Fossil fuel”

means natural gas, petroleum, coal and any form of solid,

liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such materials.

Garbage means every accumulation of.animal, vegetable and

other decomposable matter that attends or results from the

preparation, consumption, decomposition or storage of meats,

fish, fowl, birds, fruits, vegetables or other food products

and food containers soiled with food stuff, and shall

include dead animals, fowl, birds, fish and any offal.

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Gasoline Vapors means the organic compounds in the displaced

vapors including any entrained liquid gasoline.

Gasoline means any petroleum distillate having a Reid vapor

pressure of four (4) pounds or greater.

Hearing Board means the Hearing Board of the Air Pollution

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Incineration means an operation in which combustion is

carried on for the principal purpose, or with the principal

result of oxidizing a waste material to reduce its bulk or

facilitate its disposal.

Incinerator means any furnace or other closed fire chamber

used to dispose of combustible waste by burning and from

which the products of combustion are directed through a flue

or chimney.

Installation means the placement, assemblage, or

construction of equipment or control apparatus at the

premises where the equipment or control apparatus will be

used, including all preparatory work at such premises.

Modification means any physical change in an existing

facility or change in the method of operation which results

or may result in either an increase or decrease in emission

of any air pollutants subject to district control, or the

emission of any such air pollutant not previously emitted.

The following shall not be regarded as physical changes or

changes in the method of operation:

a. Routine maintenance, repair or replacement with

identical or equivalent equipment;

b. Increased production rate or increased hours of

operation where there is no increase in fixed capital

cost, unless such production and hours are limited by

permit conditions.

Multiple—Chamber Incinerator means any article, machine,

equipment, contrivance, structure or part. of a structure,

used to dispose of combustible refuse by burning, consisting

of three or more refractory lined combustion furnaces in

series, physically separated by refractory walls, inter

connected by gas passage ports or ducts employing adequate

design parameters necessary for maximum combustion of the

materials to be burned.

No—Burn Day means any day on which agricultural or wood

waste burning is prohibited by the ARB or the Air Pollution

Control District.

( Open material Out—Door Fire means combustion of any combustible of any type, outdoors in the open air, where the

product of combustion is not directed through a flue..

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Orchard or Citrus Heaters means any article, machine,

equipment, or other contrivance, burning any type of fuel or

material capable of emitting air contaminants, used or

capable of being.used for the purpose of giving protection

from frost damage.

Owner or Operator means any person who owns, operates,

controls or supervises an affected facility, or a stationary

source of which an affected facility is a part.

Particulate Matter means any material except uncombined

water, which can exist in a finely divided form as a liquid

form as a liquid or solid at standard conditions.

Pathological Waste means any material including but not

limited to human or animal tissue, or natural constituents

thereof, being combusted for reasons of waste reduction.

Permissive Burn Day means any day on which agricultural

burning is not prohibited by the ARB.

Person means any person, firm, association, organization,

partnership, business trust, corporation, company,

contractor, supplier, installer, operator, user or owner,

any government agency or public district or any officer or

employee thereof.

Pressure Tank means a tank which maintains working pressure

sufficient at all times to prevent hydrocarbon vapor or gas

loss to the atmosphere.

Proce~s Weight Per Hour means the total weight, including

contained moisture, of all materials introduced into any

specific process, which process may cause any discharge into

the atmosphere. Solid fuels charged will be considered as

part of the process weight, but liquid and gaseous fuels and

combustion air will not. (The process weight per hour will

be derived by dividing the total process weight 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).

Public Record means any record made available to the public

by law containing information relating to the conduct of the

public’s business that is prepared, owned, used or retained

by the District, except trade secrets.

Range Improvement Burning means the use of open fires to

remove vegetation for wildlife, game or livestock habitat,

or for the initial establishment of an agricultural practice

on previously uncultivated land.

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Record means handwriting, typewriting, printing,

photostating, photographing, and every other means of

recording upon any form of communication or representation

including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or

any combination thereof, and all papers, maps, magnetic or

paper tapes, photographed films ~ind prints, magnetic or

punched cards, drums, and other documents.

Regulation means one of the major subdivisions of the Rules

of the Air Pollution Control District of Butte County.

Rule means a rule of the Air Pollution Control District of

Butte County.

Section means a Section of the Health and Safety Code of the

State of California, unless some other statute is

specifically mentioned.

Shutdown means the cessation of operation of an affected

facility for any purpose.

Silvicultural Practices means the establishment,

development, care and reproduction of stands of timber.

Solid Particulate Matter means any material except

uncombined water, which can exist in a finely divided form

as solid at standard conditions.

Solid Waste Dump means any accumulation for the purpose of

disposal of any solid waste.

Source means any operation that produces and/or emits air

pollution.

Standard Conditions are a gas temperature of 15 degrees

Celsius (59 degrees Farenheit) and a gas pressure of 760

millimeters of mercury (14.7 pounds per square inch

absolute). Results of all analysis and tests shall be

calculated or reported at this gas temperature and pressure.

Standard Cubic Foot of Gas means the amount of gas that

would occupy a volume of one(l) cubic foot, if free of

water vapor, at standard conditions.

Startup means the setting in operation of an affected

facility for any purpose.

Submerged Fill Pipe means any fill pipe which has its

discharge opening entirely submerged when the liquid level

is six inches (6”) above the bottom of the tank. “Submerged

fill pipe”, when applied to a tank which is loaded from the

r side, means any fill pipe which has its discharge opening

entirely submerged when the liquid level is eighteen inches

(18”) above the bottom of the tank.

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Timber Operations means cutting or removal of timber or

other forest vegetation.

Total Reduced Sulfur (TRS) means total reduced sulfur

contained in hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, dimethyl

disulfjde or other organic sulfide compounds, all expressed

as hydrogen sulfide. Sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, or

sulfuric acid are not to be included in the determination of

TRS.

Vapor Recovery System means a vapor gathering system capable

of collecting the hydrocarbon vapors and gases discharged

and a vapor disposal system capable of processing such

hydrocarbon vapors and gases so as to prevent their emission

to the atmosphere, with all tank gauging and sampling

devices gas—tight except when gauging or sampling is taking

place.

Wood Fired Boiler means any boiler used for steam

cogeneration from which the products of combustion are

directed through a flue or chimney and which derives at

least 80 percent of its fuel input heat content from wood,

or wood associated waste.

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