California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game › Subdivision 4 - Office of Spill Prevention and Response › Chapter 3 - Oil Spill Prevention and Response Planning › Subchapter 4 - Oil Spill Contingency Plans, Nontank Vessels › Section 825.05 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions in Chapter 1, Section
						790 of this subdivision, the
						following definitions shall govern the construction of this subchapter. Where
						similar terms are defined, the following will supersede the definition in
						Chapter 1:
(a) "Dedicated Response
					 Resources" means equipment and personnel committed solely to oil spill
					 response, containment, and cleanup that are not used for any other activity
					 that would adversely affect the ability of that equipment and personnel to
					 provide oil spill response services in the time frames for which the equipment
					 and personnel are Rated. Ratings of six hours or earlier require either
					 dedicated response resources or OSRO-owned and controlled response resources,
					 as specified in Section
					 819.04(b)(2) of
					 this subchapter.
(b) "Equipment
					 Deployment Exercise" means an exercise of oil spill response equipment
					 identified in an oil spill contingency plan or an OSRO application, through its
					 actual deployment and operation as it would be used in spill response efforts
					 in an environment of similar water depth, current velocity, tidal range, and
					 substrate, where the equipment may need to be used in an actual oil spill
					 response.
(c) "Implementation of
					 the Plan" means that all essential provisions have been taken to enable the
					 plan or any portion of the plan to become operational.
(d) "Innocent Passage" means navigation
					 through the territorial sea for the purpose of traversing that sea without
					 entering internal waters or calling at a roadstead or port facility outside
					 internal waters. Passage shall be continuous and expeditious. However, passage
					 includes stopping and anchoring, but only in so far as the same are incidental
					 to ordinary navigation or are rendered necessary by distress or for the purpose
					 of rendering assistance to persons, ships or aircraft in danger or
					 distress.
(e) "Letter of Approval"
					 means a written document issued by the Office of Spill Prevention and Response
					 to the plan holder following verification, inspection and if required by the
					 Administrator, satisfactory performance in an announced and unannounced drill,
					 and final review and approval of the plan holder's contingency plan.
(f) "Marine Waters", means those California
					 marine waters subject to tidal influence and includes all waterways used for
					 waterborne commercial nontank vessel traffic to the Port of Stockton and the
					 Port of Sacramento.
(g) "Nontank
					 Vessel" means a vessel of 300 gross tons or greater, other than a tank vessel,
					 not designed to carry oil as cargo.
(h) "OSRO-Owned and Controlled Resources"
					 means equipment owned by the OSRO and personnel who are employed directly by
					 the OSRO.
(i) "Plan Holder" means
					 the owner/operator of a nontank vessel responsible for the development,
					 submittal, update, maintenance of, and compliance with the oil spill
					 contingency plan required under this subchapter.
(j) "Plan Recipient" means a receiving agency
					 and any other entity that has been designated in this subchapter to receive a
					 copy of the nontank vessel oil spill contingency plan.
(k) "Reasonable Worst Case Spill" means a
					 spill of the total volume of the largest fuel tank on the nontank
					 vessel.
(l) "Shallow-Draft Vessel"
					 means:
(1) for purposes of boom deployment, a
					 vessel that must be able to operate in water depths of two feet or
					 less;
(2) for purposes of skimming
					 operations, a vessel and attendant skimming system that must be able to operate
					 in water depths of three feet or less.