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BARCLAYS OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA CODE OF 

REGULATIONS

TITLE 13. MOTOR VEHICLES

DIVISION 3. AIR RESOURCES BOARD

CHAPTER 5. STANDARDS FOR MOTOR VEHICLE FUELS

ARTICLE 1. STANDARDS FOR GASOLINE

SUBARTICLE 2. STANDARDS FOR GASOLINE 

SOLD BEGINNING MARCH 1, 1996

This database is current through 12/26/2003, Register 

2003, No. 52.

s 2260. Definitions.

(a) For the purposes of this subarticle, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Alternative gasoline formulation" means a final blend 

of gasoline that is either a PM alternative gasoline formulation or a test-certified alternative gasoline formulation.

(2) "Averaging compliance option" means, with respect to 

a specific gasoline property, the compliance option set 

forth in section 2262.3(c).

(3) "ASTM" means the American Society of Testing and 

Materials.

(4) "Bulk purchaser-consumer" means a person that purchases or otherwise obtains gasoline in bulk and then dispenses it into the fuel tanks or motor vehicles owned or 

operated by the person.

(5) "Bulk plant" means an intermediate gasoline distribution facility where delivery of gasoline to and from the 

facility is solely by truck.

(6) "California gasoline" means:

(A) Gasoline sold, intended for sale, or made available for 

sale as a motor vehicle fuel in California; and

(B) Gasoline that is produced in California, and that the 

producer knows or reasonably should know will be offered 

for sale or supply at an out-of-state terminal or bulk plant at 

which it will be identified as gasoline produced in California and suitable for sale as a motor vehicle fuel in California.

(6.5) "California reformulated gasoline blendstock for 

oxygenate blending, or 'CARBOB,"' means a petroleum-derived liquid which is intended to be, or is 

represented as, a product that will constitute Califoria 

gasoline upon the addition of a specified type and percentage (or range of percentages) of oxygenate to the product 

after the product has been supplied from the production or 

import facility at which it was produced or imported.

(6.6) "CaRFG Phase 2" means California Phase 2 reformulated gasoline.

(6.7) "CaRFG Phase 3" means California Phase 3 reformulated gasoline.

(6.8) "CARBOB limits" means, for a final blend of 

CARBOB, CARBOB specifications for maximum Reid 

vapor pressure, sulfur content, benzene content, olefin 

content, aromatic hydrocarbon content, T50 and T90, and 

maximum and minimum oxygen content, expressed to the 

number of significant figures identified for each property 

in the section 2262 standards table, and for any other 

property identified in a certification order issued by the 

Executive Officer pursuant to the "California Procedures 

for Evaluating Alternative Specifications for Gasoline 

Using Vehicle Emissions Testing," incorporated by reference in section 2266(a), if applicable.

(7) "Designated alternative limit" means an alternative 

gasoline specification limit, expressed in the nearest part 

per million by weight for sulfur content, nearest hundredth 

percent by volume for benzene content, nearest tenth percent by volume for aromatic hydrocarbon content, nearest 

tenth percent for olefin content, and nearest degree Fahrenheit for T90 and T50, which is assigned by a producer 

or importer to a final blend of California gasoline pursuant 

to section 2264.

(8) "Ethanol" means ethyl alcohol which meets any additional requirements for ethanol or ethyl alcohol in Health 

and Safety Code section 43830.

(9) "Executive Officer" means the executive officer of the 

Air Resources Board, or his or her designee.
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(10) "Final blend" means a distinct quantity of gasoline or 

CARBOB which is introduced into commerce in California without further alteration which would tend to affect a 

regulated gasoline specification of the fuel.

(11) "Final distribution facility" means the stationary 

gasoline transfer point from which gasoline or CARBOB is 

transferred into the cargo tank truck, pipeline, or other 

delivery vessel from which the gasoline will be delivered 

to the facility at which the gasoline will be dispensed into 

motor vehicles; except that a cargo tank truck is the final 

distribution facility where the cargo tank truck is used to 

transport CARBOB and gasoline and carries written documentation demonstrating that the designated type and 

amount or range of amounts of oxygenates designated by 

the producer or importer will be or have been blended 

directly into the cargo tank truck prior to delivery of the 

resulting gasoline from the cargo tank truck to the facility 

at which the gasoline will be dispensed into motor vehicles.

(12) "Flat limit compliance option" means, with respect to 

a specific gasoline property, the compliance option set 

forth in section 2262.3(b), section 2262.4(b)(1), or section 

2262.5(c).

(13) "Further process" means to perform any activity on 

gasoline, including distillation, treating with hydrogen, or 

blending, for the purpose of bringing the gasoline into 

compliance with the standards in this subarticle.

(14) "Gasoline" means any fuel that is commonly or 

commercially known, sold or represented as gasoline, 

including any volatile mixture of predominantly liquid 

hydrocarbons that is sold or represented as suitable for use 

in an automotive spark-ignition engine.

(15) "Imported California gasoline" means California 

gasoline which is transported into California and does not 

meet the definition in section 2260(a)(6)(B).

(16) "Import facility" means the facility at which imported 

California gasoline or CARBOB is first received in California, including, in the case of gasoline or CARBOB 

imported by cargo tank and delivered directly to a facility 

for dispensing gasoline into motor vehicles, the cargo tank 

in which the gasoline or CARBOB is imported.

(17) "Importer" means any person who first accepts delivery in California of imported California gasoline.

(18) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as defined in 

section 415 of the Vehicle Code.

(19) "Oxygenate" is any oxygen-containing, ashless, organic compound, such as an alcohol or ether, which, when 

added to gasoline increases the amount of oxygen in gasoline.

(19.3) "Oxygenate blending facility" means any facility 

(including a truck) at which oxygenate is added to gasoline 

or blendstock, and at which the quality or quantity of gasoline is not altered in any other manner except for the 

addition of deposit control additives or other similar additives.

(19.6) "Oxygenate blender" means any person who owns, 

leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate 

blending facility, or who owns or controls the blendstock 

or gasoline used or the gasoline produced at an oxygenate 

blending facility.

(20) "PM alternative gasoline formulation" means a final 

blend of gasoline that is subject to a set of PM alternative 

specifications assigned pursuant to section 2265(a).

(21) "PM alternative specifications" means the specifications for the following gasoline properties, as determined 

in accordance with section 2263 and expressed to the 

number of significant figures identified for each property 

in the section 2262 standards table: maximum Reid vapor 

pressure, maximum sulfur content, maximum benzene 

content, maximum olefin content, minimum and maximum 

oxygen content, maximum T50, maximum T90, and 

maximum aromatic hydrocarbon content.

(22) "PM averaging compliance option" means, with 

reference to a specific gasoline property, the compliance 

option for PM alternative gasoline formulations under 

which final blends of gasoline are assigned designated 

alternative limits in accordance with section 2264.

(23) "PM averaging limit" means a PM alternative specification that is subject to the PM averaging compliance 

option.

(24) "PM flat limit" means a PM alternative specification 

that is subject to the PM flat limit compliance option.
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(25) "PM flat limit compliance option" means, with reference to a specific gasoline property, the compliance 

option under which each gallon of gasoline must meet the 

specification for the property contained in the PM alternative specifications.

(26)(A) "Produce" means, except as otherwise provided in 

section (a)(26)(B) or (a)(26)(C), to convert liquid compounds which are not gasoline into gasoline or CARBOB. 

When a person blends volumes of blendstocks which are 

not gasoline with volumes of gasoline acquired from 

another person, and the resulting blend is gasoline, the 

person conducting such blending has produced only the 

portion of the blend which was not previously gasoline. 

When a person blends gasoline with other volumes of 

gasoline, without the addition of blendstocks which are not 

gasoline, the person does not produce gasoline.

(B) Where a person supplies gasoline to a refiner who 

agrees in writing to further process the gasoline at the 

refiner's refinery and to be treated as the producer of the 

gasoline, the refiner shall be deemed for all purposes under 

this article to be the producer of the gasoline.

(C) Where an oxygenate blender blends oxygenates into 

CARBOB which has already been supplied from a gasoline production facility or import facility, and does not alter 

the quality or quantity of the CARBOB or the resulting 

gasoline in any other manner except for the addition of 

deposit control additives or other similar additives, the 

oxygenate blender is not producing any portion of the 

resulting gasoline, and the producer or importer of the 

CARBOB is treated as the producer or importer of the full 

volume of the resulting gasoline.

(26.5) "Produced at a California production facility with 

the use of any oxygenate other than ethanol or MTBE" 

means produced at a California production facility in part 

by either (i) adding at the California production facility any 

oxygenate, other than ethanol or MTBE, in neat form to the 

California gasoline or to a blending component used in the 

gasoline; or (ii) using a blending component that contained 

greater than 0.10 weight percent total oxygen from oxygenates other than ethanol or MTBE when it was supplied 

to the California production facility.

(27) "Producer" means any person who owns, leases, 

operates, controls or supervises a California production 

facility.

(28) "Production facility" means a facility in California at 

which gasoline or CARBOB is produced. Upon request of 

a producer, the executive officer may designate, as part of 

the producer's production facility, a physically separate 

bulk storage facility which (A) is owned or leased by the 

producer, and (B) is operated by or at the direction of the 

producer, and (C) is not used to store or distribute gasoline 

or CARBOB that is not supplied from the production facility.

(28.5) "Qualifying small refiner" means a small refiner 

whose California refinery was used in 1998 and 1999 to 

produce and supply California gasoline meeting the 

CaRFG Phase 2 standards.

(29) "Qualifying volume" means, for each small refiner, a 

volume of gasoline determined in accordance with the 

following four steps, provided that the qualifying volume 

for Kern Oil & Refining Co.'s Bakersfield refinery shall 

not exceed 2,920,000 barrels per year (equal to 8000 barrels per day; 2,928,000 barrels per year in leap years):

(A) First, the barrel per calendar day "operating crude oil 

capacity" of the small refiner's refinery in March 1999 is 

identified, based on data which are reported to the executive officer from the California Energy Commission (CEC) 

and are derived from "Monthly Refinery Reports" (EIA 

810) submitted to the CEC no later than June 30, 1999. If 

the CEC is unable to derive such data from the Monthly 

Refinery Reports for a particular small refiner, the executive officer shall determine the small refiner's operating 

crude oil capacity in March 1999 based on other publicly 

available and generally recognized sources.

(B) Second, this operating crude oil capacity is multiplied 

by 0.9794, representing the highest monthly refinery operating utilization rate in the California refining industry 

for January 1998 through March 1999, as compiled in the 

"Monthly Refinery Capacity Data Statewide" report of the 

CEC.

(C) Third, the resulting crude throughput volume is multiplied by the refinery's highest monthly ratio of gasoline 

produced to crude oil distilled in January 1998 through 

March 1999, based on data derived by the CEC from the 

Monthly Refinery Reports submitted to the CEC no later 

than June 30, 1999.

(D) Fourth, the resulting gasoline volume is multiplied by 

365 to identify an annualized value. In the case of leap 

years, the gasoline volume is multiplied by 366 to identify 

the annualized value.
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(29.5) "Racing vehicle" means a competition vehicle not 

used on public highways.

(30) "Refiner" means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls or supervises a refinery.

(31) "Refinery" means a facility that produces liquid fuels 

by distilling petroleum.

(32) "Small refiner" means any refiner who owns or operates a refinery in California that:

(A) Has and at all times had since January 1, 1978, a crude 

oil capacity of not more than 55,000 barrels per stream 

day;

(B) Has not been at any time since September 1, 1988, 

owned or controlled by any refiner that at the same time 

owned or controlled refineries in California with a total 

combined crude oil capacity of more than 55,000 barrels 

per stream day; and

(C) Has not been at any time since September 1, 1988, 

owned or controlled by any refiner that at the same time 

owned or controlled refineries in the United States with a 

total combined crude oil capacity of more than 137,500 

barrels per stream day.

(32.5) "South Coast Area" means the counties of Los 

Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.

(33) "Stream day" means 24 consecutive hours of actual 

operation of a refinery.

(34) "Supply" means to provide or transfer a product to a 

physically separate facility, vehicle, or transportation system.

(35) "TC limits" means the set of specifications identified 

in a certification issued by the Executive Officer pursuant 

to the "California Procedures for Evaluating Alternative 

Specifications for Gasoline Using Vehicle Emissions 

Testing," incorporated by reference in section 2266(a).

(36) "Test-certified alternative gasoline formulation" 

means a final blend of gasoline that is subject to a set of 

specifications identified in a certification issued by the 

Executive Officer pursuant to the "California Procedures 

for Evaluating Alternative Specifications for Gasoline 

Using Vehicle Emissions Testing," incorporated by reference in section 2266(a).

<General Materials (GM) - References, Annotations, or 

Tables>

Note: Authority cited: Sections 39600, 39601, 43013, 

43013.1, 43018 and 43101, Health and Safety Code; 

andWestern Oil and Gas Ass'n. v.Orange County Air 

Pollution Control District, 14 Cal.3d 411, 121 Cal. Rptr. 

249 (1975). Reference: Sections 39000, 39001, 39002, 

39003, 39010, 39500, 39515, 39516, 41511, 43000, 

43013, 43013.1, 43016, 43018 and 43101, Health and 

Safety Code; andWestern Oil and Gas Ass'n. v.Orange 

County Air Pollution Control District, 14 Cal.3d 411, 121 

Cal. Rptr. 249 (1975). 

HISTORY 

1. New subarticle 2 and section filed 11-16-92; operative 12-16-92 (Register

92, No. 47).

2. Amendment filed 6-2-95; operative 7-3-95 (Register 95, No. 22).

3. New subsection (a)(6.5), amendment of subsections (a)(10)-(11) and (a)(16),

new subsections (a)(19.3) and (a)19.6), and amendment of subsections 

(a)(26(A), (a)(26)(C) and (a)(28) filed 2-28-96; operative 2-28-96 pursuant to 

Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 96, No. 9).

4. New subsections (a)(29.5) and (a)(32.5) filed 9-21-98; operative 9-21-98

pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 98, No. 39).
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5. Amendment of section and Notefiled 8-3-2000; operative 9-2-2000 (Register

2000, No. 31).

6. Amendment of subsection (a)(1), new subsection (a)(6.8), amendment of

subsections (a)(20)-(21) and new subsections (a)(35)-(36) filed 8-20-2001;

operative 8-20-2001 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register

2001, No. 34).

7. New subsection (a)(26.5) filed 5-1-2003; operative 5-1-2003 pursuant to 

Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2003, No. 18).

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