California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 5 - California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms › Subarticle 2 - Purpose and Definitions › Section 95802 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Definitions.
						For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
"Account Viewing Agent" means an individual authorized
						  by a registered entity to view all the information on the entity's accounts
						  contained in the tracking system.
"Accounts Administrator" means the entity acting in the
						  capacity to administer the accounts identified in this regulation. This may be
						  ARB, or could be an entity ARB enters into a contract with.
"Activity-Shifting Leakage" means increased GHG
						  emissions or decreased GHG removals that result from the displacement of
						  activities or resources from inside the offset project's boundary to locations
						  outside the offset project's boundary as a result of the offset project
						  activity.
"Additional" means, in the context of offset credits,
						  greenhouse gas emission reductions or removals that exceed any greenhouse gas
						  reduction or removals otherwise required by law, regulation or legally binding
						  mandate, and that exceed any greenhouse gas reductions or removals that would
						  otherwise occur in a conservative business-as-usual scenario.
"Adjusted Clinker and Mineral Additives Produced" means
						  annual amount of clinker and mineral additives (limestone and gypsum) derived
						  by using the following metric: Adjusted clinker and mineral additives produced
						  = clinker produced x (1 + (limestone and gypsum consumed)/clinker
						  consumed)).
"Adjusted Hulled and Dried Pistachios" means the raw
						  pistachios that have been received and subjected to a hulling and drying
						  process. Hulling is the process of removing pistachio hulls that cover
						  pistachio shells and kernels. Drying is the process of reducing the moisture
						  content of hulled pistachios. Adjusted hulled and dried pistachios shall
						  conform to the sampling methodology specified in the "Representative Sampling"
						  section of "Agriculture Shipping Point and Market Inspection Instructions for
						  Pistachios in the Shell" (U.S. Department of Agriculture 2005), which is hereby
						  incorporated by reference, and the weight shall be corrected to five percent
						  moisture.
"Adverse Offset Verification Statement" means an Offset
						  Verification Statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted
						  Offset Project Data Report is free of an offset material misstatement, or that
						  it cannot attest that the Offset Project Data Report conforms to the
						  requirements of this article or applicable Compliance Offset Protocol.
"Air Dried Ton of Paper" means paper with 6 percent
						  moisture content.
"Air Pollution Control District" or "Air Quality
						  Management District" or "Air District" means any district created or continued
						  in existence pursuant to the provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section
						  40000) of Division 26 of the
						  Health and Safety Code.
"Allowance" means a limited tradable authorization to
						  emit up to one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.
"Almond" means the edible seed of the almond
						  (
Prunus amygdalus
).
"Alternate Account Representative" means an individual
						  designated pursuant to section
						  95832 to take actions on an
						  entity's accounts.
"Aluminum and aluminum alloy billet" is a solid bar of
						  nonferrous metal, produced by casting molten aluminum alloys, that is suitable
						  for subsequent rolling, casting, or extrusion. Aluminum alloy is an alloy in
						  which aluminum is the predominant metal and the alloying elements may typically
						  be copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, or other elemental additives or any
						  combination of elements added.
"Anhydrous Milkfat" means fatty products derived
						  exclusively from milk and/or products obtained from milk by means of processes
						  which result in almost total removal of water and non-fat solids.
"Annual Allowance Budget" means the number of
						  California Greenhouse Gas Allowances associated with one year of the
						  Cap-and-Trade Program in subarticle 6.
"ARB ID" means, for the purposes of this article, the
						  unique identification number assigned to each facility, supplier, and electric
						  power entity that reports GHG emissions to the ARB pursuant to MRR.
"ARB Offset Credit" means a tradable compliance
						  instrument issued by ARB that represents a GHG reduction or GHG removal
						  enhancement of one metric ton of CO2e. The GHG reduction
						  or GHG removal enhancement must be real, additional, quantifiable, permanent,
						  verifiable, and enforceable. ARB offset credits may only be issued for GHG
						  emission reductions or GHG removal enhancements that occur during a "Reporting
						  Period," as defined in this section.
"Aseptic Preparation" is a system in which a product is
						  sterilized before filling into pre-sterilized packs under sterile
						  conditions.
"Aseptic tomato paste" means tomato paste packaged
						  using aseptic preparation. Aseptic paste is normalized to 31% tomato soluble
						  solids (TSS). Aseptic paste normalized to 31% TSS = (%TSS - raw TSS)/(31 - raw
						  TSS).
"Aseptic whole and diced tomatoes" means whole and
						  diced tomatoes packaged using aseptic preparation. Sum of Aseptic Whole and
						  Diced Tomatoes = Whole Tomatoes + (Diced Tomatoes x 1.05).
"Asphalt" means a dark brown-to-black, cement-like
						  material obtained by petroleum processing and containing bitumens as the
						  predominant component. It includes crude asphalt as well as the following
						  finished products: cements, fluxes, the asphalt content of emulsions (exclusive
						  of water), and petroleum distillates blended with asphalt to make cutback
						  asphalts.
"Asset Controlling Supplier" means any entity that owns
						  or operates inter-connected electricity generating facilities or serves as an
						  exclusive marketer for these facilities even though it does not own them, and
						  is assigned a supplier-specific identification number and system emission
						  factor by ARB for the wholesale electricity procured from its system and
						  imported into California. Asset Controlling Suppliers are considered specified
						  sources.
"Assigned Emissions" or "Assigned Emissions Level"
						  means an amount of emissions, in CO2e, assigned to the
						  reporting entity by the Executive Officer under the requirements of section
						  95103(g) of
						  MRR.
"Associated Gas" or "Produced Gas" means a natural gas
						  that is produced in association with the production of crude oil.
"Auction" means the process of selling California
						  Greenhouse Gas Allowances, along with allowances from External Greenhouse Gas
						  Emissions Trading Systems with which California has linked its Cap-and-Trade
						  Program pursuant to subarticle 12, by offering them up for bid, taking bids,
						  and then distributing the allowances to winning bidders.
"Auction Purchase Limit" means the limit on the number
						  of allowances one entity or a group of affiliated entities may purchase from
						  the share of allowances sold at a quarterly auction.
"Auction Reserve Price" means a price for allowances
						  below which bids at auction would not be accepted.
"Auction Settlement Price" means the price announced by
						  the auction administrator at the conclusion of each quarterly auction. It is
						  the price which all successful bidders will pay for their allowances and also
						  the price to be paid to those entities which consigned allowances to the
						  auction.
"Authorized Project Designee" means an entity
						  authorized by an Offset Project Operator to act on behalf of the Offset Project
						  Operator. The Authorized Project Designee must be a Primary Account
						  Representative or Alternate Account Representative on the Offset Project
						  Operator's Holding Account.
"Aviation Gasoline" means a complex mixture of volatile
						  hydrocarbons, with or without additives, suitably blended to be used in
						  aviation reciprocating engines. Specifications are as stated in MRR, section
						  95102(a).
"Baked potato chips" means a potato chip made from a
						  potato dough that is rolled to a specified thickness, cut into a chip shape and
						  then toasted in an oven.
"Balancing Authority" means the responsible entity that
						  integrates resource plans ahead of time, maintains load-interchange-generation
						  balance within a balancing authority area, and supports interconnection
						  frequency in real time.
"Balancing Authority Area" means the collection of
						  generation, transmission, and loads within the metered boundaries of a
						  balancing authority.
A balancing authority maintains load-resource balance
						  within this area.
"Banking" means the holding of compliance instruments
						  from one compliance period for the purpose of sale or surrender in a future
						  compliance period.
"Barrel of Gas Processed Equivalent," with respect to
						  reporting of onshore natural gas processing as defined in MRR 95150(a)(3),
						  means the volume of associated gas, waste gas, and natural gas processed
						  converted to barrels at 5.8 MMBtu per barrel.
"Barrel of Oil Equivalent," with respect to reporting
						  of oil and gas production, means barrels of crude oil produced, plus associated
						  gas and dry gas produced, converted to barrels at 5.8 MMBtu per barrel.
"Biodiesel" means a diesel fuel substitute produced
						  from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meet the registration requirements
						  for fuels and fuel additives established by the U.S. Environmental Protection
						  Agency under section
						  211 of the Clean Air Act. It
						  includes biodiesel that is all of the following: registered as a motor vehicle
						  fuel or fuel additive under 40 CFR Part 79 (June 27, 1994); a mono-alkyl ester;
						  meets American Society for Testing and Material designation ASTM D 6751-08
						  (
Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel Blendstock (B100) for Middle
						  Distillate Fuels, 2008
); intended for use in engines that are
						  designated to run on conventional diesel fuel; and derived from nonpetroleum
						  renewable resources.
"Biogas" means gas that is produced from the breakdown
						  of organic material in the absence of oxygen. Biogas is produced in processes
						  including anaerobic digestion, anaerobic decomposition, and thermochemical
						  decomposition. These processes are applied to biodegradable biomass materials,
						  such as manure, sewage, municipal solid waste, green waste, and waste from
						  energy crops, to produce landfill gas, digester gas, and other forms of
						  biogas.
"Biomass" means non-fossilized and biodegradable
						  organic material originating from plants, animals, and microorganisms,
						  including products, by-products, residues, and waste from agriculture,
						  forestry, and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and
						  biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including
						  gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and
						  biodegradable organic material. For the purpose of this article, biomass
						  includes both California Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) eligible and
						  non-eligible biomass as defined by the California Energy Commission.
"Biomass-Derived Fuels" or "Biomass Fuels" or
						  "Biofuels" means fuels derived from biomass.
"Biomethane" means biogas that meets pipeline quality
						  natural gas standards.
"Blanched Almonds" means raw almond meats that are
						  introduced to the blanching process. Blanching is the process through which
						  skins are detached from almond meats.
"Boiler" means a closed vessel or arrangement of
						  vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which water
						  is heated to produce hot water or steam.
"Boric Oxide Equivalent" means the theoretical
						  equivalent mass of boric oxide
						  (B2O3) in all produced borate
						  products, which is not necessarily equal to the mass of the physical substance
						  boric oxide. This theoretical chemically equivalent mass of
						  B2O3 in produced borate product
						  is measured either (1) by using the methods described in "Method to Determine
						  the Boric Oxide Equivalent in Borate Products" (ARB 2017), which is hereby
						  incorporated by reference, or (2) by multiplying the mass of borates by the
						  default boric oxide equivalency factors and summing the products. The default
						  boric oxide equivalency factors are as follows: 38 percent for borax
						  decahydrate
						  (Na2B4O7*10H2O),
						  49 percent for borax pentahydrate
						  (Na2B4O7*5H2O),
						  69 percent for anhydrous borax
						  (Na2B4O7),
						  56 percent for boric acid
						  (H3BO3), and 99 percent for
						  anhydrous boric acid
						  (B2O3).
"Budget Year" means the calendar year to which an
						  annual allowance budget is assigned pursuant to subarticle 6.
"Business-as-Usual Scenario" means the set of
						  conditions reasonably expected to occur within the offset project boundary in
						  the absence of the financial incentives provided by offset credits, taking into
						  account all current laws and regulations, as well as current economic and
						  technological trends.
"Butter" means the product made by gathering the fat of
						  fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass that also contains a small portion
						  of other milk constituents.
"Buttermilk" means the low-fat portion of milk or cream
						  remaining after the milk or cream has been churned to make butter.
"Buttermilk powder" means milk powder obtained by
						  drying liquid buttermilk that was derived from the churning of butter and
						  pasteurized prior to condensing. Buttermilk powder has a protein content of no
						  less than 30%. It may not contain, or be derived from, nonfat dry milk, dry
						  whey, or products other than buttermilk, and contains no added preservatives,
						  neutralizing agents, or other chemicals.
"Calcined coke" means petroleum coke purified to a dry,
						  pure form of carbon suitable for use as anode and other non-fuel
						  applications.
"Calcium Ammonium Nitrate Solution" means calcium
						  nitrate that contains ammonium nitrate and water. Calcium ammonium nitrate
						  solution is generally used as agricultural fertilizer.
"Calendar Year" means the time period from January 1
						  through December 31.
"California Balancing Authority" shall have the same
						  meaning ascribed in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"California Electricity Transmission and Distribution
						  System" means the combination of the entire infrastructure within California
						  that delivers electric power from electric generating facilities to end users
						  over single or multiple paths.
"California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowance" or "CA
						  GHG Allowance" means an allowance issued by ARB and equal to up to one metric
						  ton of CO2 equivalent.
"Calyx" or "Calyces" means the leaf-like structure
						  composing the outermost part of a flower. This structure often encloses and
						  protects a bud and may remain after a fruit forms.
"Cap" means the total number of California GHG
						  Allowances that the Executive Officer issues over a given period of
						  time.
"Cap-and-Trade Program" means the requirements of this
						  article.
"Carbon Dioxide" or "CO2" means
						  the most common of the primary greenhouse gases, consisting on a molecular
						  level of a single carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.
"Carbon Dioxide Equivalent" or
						  "CO2 equivalent" or "CO2e" means
						  the number of metric tons of CO2 emissions with the same
						  global warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas. Global
						  warming potential values shall be determined consistent with the definition of
						  Carbon Dioxide Equivalent in MRR section
						  95102(a).
"Carbon Dioxide Supplier" or
						  "CO2 Supplier" means
(a) facilities with production process units
						located in the State of California that capture a CO2
						stream for purposes of supplying CO2 to another entity
						or facility or that capture the CO2 stream in order to
						utilize it for geologic sequestration where capture refers to the initial
						separation and removal of CO2 from a manufacturing
						process or any other process, (b) facilities with CO2
						production wells located in the State of California that extract or produce a
						CO2 stream for purposes of supplying
						CO2 for commercial applications or that extract a
						CO2 stream in order to utilize it for geologic
						sequestration, (c) exporters (out of the State of California) of bulk
						CO2 that export CO2 for the
						purpose of geologic sequestration, (d) exporters (out of the State of
						California) of bulk CO2 that export for purposes other
						than geologic sequestration, and (e) importers (into the State of California)
						of bulk CO2. This source category is focused on upstream
						supply and is not intended to place duplicative compliance obligations on
						CO2 already covered upstream. The source category does
						not include transportation or distribution of CO2;
						purification, compression, or processing of CO2; or
						on-site use of CO2 captured on-site.
"Carbon Stock" means the quantity of carbon contained
						  in an identified GHG reservoir.
"Carbonation" means the process of dissolving carbon
						  dioxide in water.
"Casein" means a group of proteins found in milk which
						  is coagulated by enzymes and acid to form cheese.
"Cement" means a building material that is produced by
						  heating mixtures of limestone and other minerals or additives at high
						  temperatures in a rotary kiln to form clinker, followed by cooling and grinding
						  with blended additives. Finished cement is a powder used with water, sand, and
						  gravel to make concrete and mortar.
"Cheese" means a food product derived from milk that is
						  produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the
						  milk protein casein.
"Cogeneration" means an integrated system that produces
						  electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or
						  heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the
						  original fuel energy. Cogeneration must involve onsite generation of
						  electricity and useful thermal energy and some form of waste heat recovery.
						  Some examples of cogeneration include:
(a) a gas turbine or reciprocating engine
						generating electricity by combusting fuel, which then uses a heat recovery unit
						to capture useful heat from the exhaust stream of the turbine or
						engine;
(b) steam turbines
						generating electricity as a byproduct of steam generation through a fired
						boiler; and
(c) cogeneration systems
						in which the fuel input is first applied to a thermal process such as a furnace
						and at least some of the heat rejected from the process is then used for power
						production. For the purposes of this article, a combined-cycle power generation
						unit, where none of the generated thermal energy is used for industrial,
						commercial, or heating and cooling purposes (these purposes exclude any thermal
						energy utilization that is either in support of or a part of the electricity
						generation system), is not considered a cogeneration unit.
"Cold Rolled and Annealed Steel Sheet" means steel that
						  is cold rolled and then annealed. Cold rolling means the changes in the
						  structure and shape of steel through rolling, hammering or stretching the steel
						  at a low temperature. Annealing is a heat or thermal treatment process by which
						  a previously cold-rolled steel coil is made more suitable for forming and
						  bending. The steel sheet is heated to a designated temperature for a sufficient
						  amount of time and then cooled.
"Cold Rolling of Steel" means the changes in the
						  structure and shape of steel through rolling, hammering or stretching the steel
						  at a low temperature.
"Combustion Emissions" means greenhouse gas emissions
						  occurring during the exothermic reaction of a fuel with oxygen.
"Complexity weighted barrel" or "CWB" means a metric
						  created to evaluate the greenhouse gas efficiency of petroleum refineries and
						  related processes. The CWB value for an individual refinery is calculated using
						  actual refinery throughput to specified process units and emission factors for
						  these process units. The emission factor is denoted as the CWB factor and is
						  representative of the greenhouse gas emission intensity at an average level of
						  energy efficiency, for the same standard fuel type for each process unit for
						  production, and for average process emissions of the process units across a
						  sample of refineries. Each CWB factor is expressed as a value weighted relative
						  to atmospheric crude distillation.
"Compliance Account" means an account created by the
						  accounts administrator for a covered entity or opt-in covered entity with a
						  compliance obligation, to which the entity transfers compliance instruments to
						  meet its annual and full compliance period compliance obligations.
"Compliance Instrument" means an allowance or offset,
						  issued by ARB or by an External Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System to
						  which California has linked its Cap-and-Trade Program pursuant to subarticle
						  12, or sector-based offset credit. Each compliance instrument can be used to
						  fulfill a compliance obligation equivalent to up to one metric ton of
						  CO2e.
"Compliance Obligation" means the quantity of verified
						  reported emissions or assigned emissions for which an entity must submit
						  compliance instruments to ARB.
"Compliance Offset Protocol" means an offset protocol
						  adopted by the Board.
"Compliance Period" means the three-year period for
						  which the compliance obligation is calculated for covered entities except for
						  the first compliance period. The compliance obligation for the first compliance
						  period only considers emissions from data years of 2013 and 2014.
"Compressed natural gas" or "CNG" means natural gas in
						  high-pressure containers that is highly compressed (though not to the point of
						  liquefaction), typically to pressures ranging from 2900 to 3600 psi.
"Condensed milk" means the food obtained by partial
						  removal of water only from a milk product. The finished food contains not less
						  than 28 percent by weight of total milk solids. The composition of the milk
						  solid components and nutritional content in condensed milk retains the same
						  relative ratios as the parent fluid product except for minor composition
						  changes due to processing.
"Conflict of Interest" means, for purposes of this
						  article, a situation in which, because of financial or other activities or
						  relationships with other persons or organizations, a person or body is unable
						  or potentially unable to render an impartial Offset Verification Statement of a
						  potential client's Offset Project Data Report, or the person or body's
						  objectivity in performing offset verification services is or might be otherwise
						  compromised.
"Conservative" means, in the context of offsets,
						  utilizing project baseline assumptions, emission factors, and methodologies
						  that are more likely than not to understate net GHG reductions or GHG removal
						  enhancements for an offset project to address uncertainties affecting the
						  calculation or measurement of GHG reductions or GHG removal
						  enhancements.
"Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers" means a
						  measure that examines the changes in the price of a basket of goods and
						  services purchased by urban consumers, and is published by the U.S. Bureau of
						  Labor Statistics.
"Container Glass Pulled" means the quantity of glass
						  removed from the melting furnace in the container glass manufacturing process
						  where "container glass" is defined as glass products used for packaging.
"Contract Description Code" means the alphanumeric code
						  assigned by an exchange to a particular exchange product that differentiates
						  the product from others traded on the exchange.
"Corn chip" is a food product made from masa (ground
						  corn dough) that is rolled to a specific thickness, cut into a chip shape,
						  lightly toasted in an oven, and then deep fried.
"Corn curl" is a food product made from a deep-fried
						  extrusion of masa (ground corn dough).
"Counterparty" means the opposite party in a bilateral
						  agreement, contract, or transaction.
"Covered Entity" means an entity within California that
						  has one or more of the processes or operations and has a compliance obligation
						  as specified in subarticle 7 of this regulation; and that has emitted,
						  produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2009 or any subsequent year
						  more than the applicable threshold level specified in section
						  95812(a) of this
						  rule.
"Cream" means that portion of milk, rich in milk fat,
						  which rises to the surface of milk that is left standing or which is separated
						  from milk by centrifugal force.
"Crediting Baseline" refers to the reduction of
						  absolute GHG emissions below the business-as-usual scenario or reference level
						  across a jurisdiction's entire sector in a sector-based crediting program after
						  the imposition of greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements or
						  incentives.
"Crediting Period" means the pre-determined period for
						  which an offset project will remain eligible to be issued ARB offset credits or
						  registry offset credits for verified GHG emission reductions or GHG removal
						  enhancements.
"Data Year" means the calendar year in which emissions
						  occurred.
"Deforestation" means direct human-induced conversion
						  of forested land to non-forested land.
"Dehydrated chili pepper" means chili pepper that has
						  been dehydrated to no more than 12 percent water by volume in order to extend
						  the shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Chili peppers are the fruit of
						  plants from the genus
Capsicum
, and are members of the
						  nightshade family
Solanaceae
.
"Dehydrated garlic" means garlic that has been
						  dehydrated to no more than 6.8 percent water by volume in order to extend the
						  shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Garlic is an onion-like plant
(Allium sativum)
having a bulb that breaks up into separable
						  cloves with a strong distinctive odor and flavor.
"Dehydrated onion" means onion that has been dehydrated
						  to no more than 5.5 percent water by volume in order to extend the shelf life
						  and to concentrate the flavor. Onion (
Allium cepa
) is a plant
						  that has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and the bulb at the base of the
						  plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached.
"Dehydrated parsley" means parsley that has been
						  dehydrated to no more than 5 percent water by volume in order to extend the
						  shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a
						  species of
Petroselinum
in the family
Apiaceae
.
"Dehydrated spinach" means spinach that has been
						  dehydrated to no more than 7 percent water by volume in order to extend the
						  shelf life and to concentrate the flavor. Spinach (
Spinacia
						  oleracea
) is an edible flowering plant in the family of
Amaranthaceae
.
"Delivered Electricity" means electricity that was
						  distributed from a PSE and received by a PSE or electricity that was generated,
						  transmitted, and consumed.
"Deproteinized whey" means products manufactured
						  through the cold ultrafiltration of sweet dairy whey, removing a portion of the
						  protein from sweet whey to result in a non-hygroscopic, free-flowing and clean
						  flavored powder containing greater than 80% carbohydrate (lactose)
						  levels.
"Diced Tomatoes" is the food prepared from mature
						  tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit
Lycopersicum
						  esculentum
P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. The tomatoes are
						  diced or crushed, and shall have had the stems and calyces removed.
"Diesel Fuel" means Distillate Fuel No. 1 and
						  Distillate Fuel No. 2, including dyed and non-taxed fuels.
"Direct Delivery of Electricity" or "directly
						  delivered" has the same meaning as ascribed to MRR section
						  95102(a).
"Direct environmental benefits in the State" refers to
						  the reduction or avoidance of emissions of any air pollutant in the state or
						  the reduction or avoidance of any pollutant that could have an adverse impact
						  on waters of the state.
"Direct GHG Emission Reduction" means a GHG emission
						  reduction from applicable GHG emission sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs
						  that are under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project
						  Designee.
"Direct GHG Removal Enhancement" means a GHG removal
						  enhancement from applicable GHG emission sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs
						  under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project
						  Designee.
"Distillate Fuel No. 1" has a maximum distillation
						  temperature of 550°F at the 90 percent recovery point and a minimum flash
						  point of 100°F and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel No. 1 and
						  Fuel Oil No. 1, but excludes kerosene. This fuel is further subdivided into
						  categories of sulfur content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur
						  (less than or equal to 500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur
						  (less than or equal to 15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 2" has a minimum and maximum
						  distillation temperature of 540 °F and 640 °F at the 90 percent
						  recovery point, respectively, and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel
						  No. 2 and Fuel Oil No. 2. This fuel is further subdivided into categories of
						  sulfur content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur (less than or
						  equal to 500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur (less than or
						  equal to 15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 4" means a distillate fuel oil
						  with a minimum flash point of 131 °F made by blending distillate fuel oil
						  and residual fuel oil.
"Distillate Fuel Oil" means a classification for one of
						  the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations and
						  from crackers and hydrotreating process units. The generic term "distillate
						  fuel oil" includes kerosene, kerosene-type jet fuel, diesel fuels (Diesel Fuels
						  No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4), and fuel oils (Fuel Oils No. 1, No. 2, and No.
						  4).
"Distilled spirit" means a spirit made from the
						  separation of alcohol and a fermented product.
"District Heating Facility" means a facility that, at a
						  central plant, produces hot water, steam, and/or chilled water that is
						  distributed through underground pipes to buildings and facilities connected to
						  the system that are not part of the same facility. District Heating Facility
						  does not include a facility that produces electricity.
"Dolime" is calcined dolomite.
"Dry Gas" means a natural gas that is produced from gas
						  wells not associated with the production of crude oil.
"Dry color concentrate" means precipitated solids
						  extract from fruits and vegetables whose uses are for altering the color of
						  materials and/or food.
"Ductile iron pipe" means pipe made of cast ferrous
						  material in which a major part of the carbon content occurs as free graphite in
						  a substantially nodular or spheroidal form. Pipes are used mainly to convey
						  substances which can flow.
"Early Action Offset Credit" means a tradable credit
						  issued by an Early Action Offset Program that represents a GHG reduction or GHG
						  removal enhancement equivalent to one metric ton of CO2e
						  and meets the requirements of the Program for Recognition of Early Action
						  Offset Credits.
"Early Action Offset Program" means a program that
						  meets the requirements of the Program for Recognition of Early Action Offset
						  Credits and is approved by ARB.
"Early Action Offset Project" means an offset project
						  that is registered with an Early Action Offset Program, has been issued early
						  action offset credits, with the exception of reforestation offset projects,
						  which must be registered with an Early Action Offset Program but might not have
						  been issued early action offset credits, and is in good standing with the Early
						  Action Offset Program.
"Early Action Reporting Period" means a reporting
						  period in which GHG reductions and/or GHG removal enhancements are reported
						  under an Early Action Offset Program.
"Electric Arc Furnace" or "EAF" means a furnace that
						  produces molten steel and heats the charge materials with electric arcs from
						  carbon electrodes. Furnaces that continuously feed direct-reduced iron ore
						  pellets as the primary source of iron are not affected facilities within the
						  scope of this definition.
"Electrical Distribution Utility(ies)" or "EDU" means
						  an entity that owns and/or operates an electrical distribution system,
						  including:
1) a public utility as
						defined in the Public Utilities Code section
						216
						(referred to as an Investor Owned Utility or IOU); or
2) a local publicly owned electric utility
						(POU) as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						224.3
						or
3) an Electrical Cooperative
						(COOP) as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						2776,
						that provides electricity to retail end users in California.
"Electricity Generating Facility" means a facility that
						  generates electricity and includes one or more generating units at the same
						  location.
"Electricity Importers" deliver imported electricity.
						  For electricity that is scheduled with a NERC e-Tag to a final point of
						  delivery inside the state of California, the electricity importer is identified
						  on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last segment of
						  the tag's physical path with the point of receipt located outside the state of
						  California and the point of delivery located inside the state of California.
						  For facilities physically located outside the state of California with the
						  first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's
						  transmission and distribution system when the electricity is not scheduled on a
						  NERC e-Tag, the importer is the facility operator or scheduling coordinator.
						  Federal and state agencies are subject to the regulatory authority of ARB under
						  this article, and include Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Bonneville
						  Power Administration (BPA) and California Department of Water Resources (DWR).
						  For electricity that is imported into California through the CAISO Energy
						  Imbalance Market, the electricity importer is identified as the EIM
						  Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator serving the EIM market whose
						  transactions result in electricity imports into California.
"Electric Power Entity" shall have the same meaning
						  ascribed in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Eligible Renewable Energy Resource" has the same
						  meaning as defined in Section
						  399.12
						  of the Public Utilities Code.
"Emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases into
						  the atmosphere from sources and processes in a facility, including from the
						  combustion of transportation fuels such as natural gas, petroleum products, and
						  natural gas liquids. In the context of offsets, "emissions" means the release
						  of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from sources and processes within an
						  offset project boundary.
"Emissions Data Report" or "greenhouse gas emissions
						  data report" or "report" means the report prepared by an operator or supplier
						  each year and submitted by electronic means to ARB that provides the
						  information required by MRR. The emissions data report is for the submission of
						  required data for the calendar year prior to the year in which the report is
						  due. For example, a 2013 emissions data report would cover emissions and
						  product data for the 2013 calendar year and would be reported in 2014.
"Emissions Efficiency Benchmark" or "GHG emissions
						  efficiency benchmark" means a performance standard used to evaluate GHG
						  emissions efficiency between and amongst similar facilities or operations in
						  the same industrial sector.
"Emulsion" means a mixture of water, crude oil,
						  associated gas, and other components from the oil extraction process that is
						  transferred from an existing platform that is permanently affixed to the ocean
						  floor and that is located outside the distance specified in the "offshore"
						  definition in section
						  95102 of MRR, to an onshore
						  petroleum and natural gas production facility.
"End User" means a final purchaser of an energy
						  product, such as electricity, thermal energy, or natural gas not for the
						  purposes of retransmission or resale. In the context of natural gas
						  consumption, an "end user" is the point to which natural gas is delivered for
						  consumption.
"Energy Imbalance Market" or "EIM" means the operation
						  of the CAISO's real time market to manage transmission congestion and optimize
						  procurement of energy to balance supply and demand for the combined CAISO and
						  EIM footprint.
"Energy Imbalance Market Outstanding Emissions" or "EIM
						  Outstanding Emissions" shall have the same meaning as MRR section
						  95111(h)(1).
"Energy Imbalance Market Participating Resource
						  Scheduling Coordinator" or "EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator"
						  means the participating resource owner or operator, or a third-party designated
						  by the resource owner or operator, that is certified by the CAISO and enters
						  into the pro forma EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator Agreement,
						  under which it is responsible for meeting the requirements specified in the
						  CAISO Tariff on behalf of the resource owner or operator.
"Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser" or "EIM Purchaser"
						  means, for a given data year, an electrical distribution utility that directly
						  or indirectly purchases any electricity through the EIM to serve California
						  load in the data year and receives allowance allocation in the subsequent year
						  pursuant to section
						  95892. An electrical distribution
						  utility is considered to have purchased electricity through the EIM in a given
						  data year if, during any 5-minute interval in the data year, the electrical
						  distribution utility serves California load through imbalance energy purchased
						  directly from the CAISO market. An electrical distribution utility is
						  considered to have purchased electricity through the EIM in a given data year
						  if, during any 5-minute interval in the data year, the electrical distribution
						  utility participates in CAISO markets indirectly through a CAISO scheduling
						  coordinator that meets any part of the electrical distribution utility's
						  California load with imbalance energy.
"Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser Emissions" or "EIM
						  Purchaser Emissions" shall have the same meaning as MRR section
						  95111(h)(2).
"Enforceable" means the authority for ARB to hold a
						  particular party liable and to take appropriate action if any of the provisions
						  of this article are violated.
"Enhanced Oil Recovery" or "EOR" means the use of
						  certain methods such as steam (thermal EOR), water flooding or gas injection
						  into existing wells to increase the recovery of crude oil from a reservoir. In
						  the context of this rule, EOR also applies to injection of critical phase
						  carbon dioxide into a crude oil reservoir to enhance the recovery of
						  oil.
"Enterer" means an entity that imports, into
						  California, motor vehicle fuel, diesel fuel, fuel ethanol, biodiesel, or
						  non-exempt biomass-derived fuel or renewable fuel and who is the importer of
						  record under federal customs law or the owner of fuel upon import into
						  California, if the fuel is not subject to federal customs law. Only enterers
						  that import the fuels specified in this definition outside the bulk
						  transfer/terminal system are subject to reporting under the regulation.
"Entity" means a person, firm, association,
						  organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability
						  company, company, or government agency.
"Entity type" means the type of entity based on the
						  qualification to register in the tracking system as a covered entity (pursuant
						  to section
						  95811), an opt-in covered entity
						  (pursuant to section
						  95813), or a voluntarily
						  associated entity (pursuant to section
						  95814).
"Environmental Impact Assessment" means a detailed
						  public disclosure statement of potential environmental and socioeconomic
						  impacts associated with a proposed project. Such disclosure is a matter of
						  public record and provides detailed information to public agencies and the
						  general public about the effect that a proposed project is likely to have on
						  the environment and ways in which the significant effects of such a project
						  might be minimized, and to indicate alternatives to such a project.
"Environmental Stringency" means, for purposes of this
						  article, the ability of the California Cap-and-Trade Program to deliver the GHG
						  emission reductions contemplated by this article, including the allowance
						  budgets established in this article.
"Exchange" means a central marketplace with established
						  rules and regulations where buyers and sellers meet to conduct trades.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the
						  California Air Resources Board, or his or her delegate.
"Expected Settlement Date" is a date specified in a
						  transaction agreement on which all requirements in the transaction agreement
						  are expected to be settled, exclusive of any contingencies specified in the
						  agreement.
"Expected Termination Date" is a date specified in a
						  transaction agreement on which all requirements in the transaction agreement
						  are expected to be completed, exclusive of any contingencies specified in the
						  agreement.
"Exported Electricity" shall have the same meaning
						  ascribed in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"External Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System" or
						  "External GHG ETS" means an administrative system, other than the California
						  Cap-and-Trade Program, that controls greenhouse gas emissions from sources in
						  its program.
"Facility," unless otherwise specified in relation to
						  natural gas distribution facilities and onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production facilities as defined in section
						  95802(a),
						  means:
Any physical property, plant, building, structure,
						  source, or stationary equipment located on one or more contiguous or adjacent
						  properties in actual physical contact or separated solely by a public roadway
						  or other public right-of-way and under common ownership or common control, that
						  emits or may emit any greenhouse gas. Operators of military installations may
						  classify such installations as more than a single facility based on distinct
						  and independent functional groupings within contiguous military
						  properties.
With respect to natural gas distribution for the
						  purposes of sections
						  95150 through
						  95158 of MRR, "Facility" means the
						  collection of all distribution pipelines and metering-regulating stations that
						  are operated by a Local Distribution Company (LDC) within the State of
						  California that is regulated as a separate operating company by a public
						  utility commission or that are operated as an independent municipally-owned
						  distribution system.
With respect to onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production for the purposes of sections
						  95150 through
						  95158 of MRR, "Facility" means all
						  petroleum and natural gas equipment on a well-pad, or associated with a well
						  pad or to which emulsion is transferred and CO2 EOR
						  operations that are under common ownership or common control including leased,
						  rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production owner or operator and that are located in a single hydrocarbon basin
						  as defined in section
						  95102(a) of MRR.
						  When a commonly owned cogeneration plant is within the basin, the cogeneration
						  plant is only considered part of the onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production facility if the onshore petroleum and natural gas production
						  facility operator or owner has a greater than fifty percent ownership share in
						  the cogeneration plant. Where a person or entity owns or operates more than one
						  well in a basin, then all onshore petroleum and natural gas production
						  equipment associated with all wells that the person or entity owns or operates
						  in the basin would be considered one facility. Onshore natural gas processing
						  equipment that is owned and/or operated by the facility owner/operator and
						  located within the same basin, is considered "associated with a well pad" and
						  is included with the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility,
						  unless such equipment is required to be reported as part of a separate onshore
						  petroleum and natural gas processing facility.
With respect to onshore natural gas processing,
						  "Facility" means equipment associated with the separation of natural gas
						  liquids (NGLs) or non-methane gases from produced natural gas, including
						  separation of sulfur and carbon dioxide, that processes an annual average
						  throughput of 25 MMscf per day or greater, or whose owner/operator does not
						  also own/operate a production facility in the same basin.
"Fiberglass Pulled" means the quantity of glass removed
						  from the melting furnace in the fiberglass manufacturing process where
						  "Fiberglass" is defined as insulation products for thermal, acoustic, and fire
						  applications manufactured using glass.
"Final Point of Delivery" means the sink specified on
						  the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC
						  Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as
						  may be the case within a balancing authority, the final point of delivery is
						  the location of the load. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the final
						  point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.
"First Deliverer of Electricity" or "First Deliverer"
						  means the owner or operator of an electricity generating facility in
						  California, or an electricity importer.
"First Point of Receipt" means the generation source
						  specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through
						  the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity
						  deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the first point of
						  receipt is the location of the individual generating facility or unit, or group
						  of generating facilities or units. Imported electricity and wheeled electricity
						  are disaggregated by the first point of receipt on the NERC e-Tag.
"Flash Point" of a volatile liquid is the lowest
						  temperature at which it can vaporize to form an ignitable mixture in
						  air.
"Flat Glass Pulled" means the quantity of glass removed
						  from the melting furnace in the flat glass manufacturing process where "flat
						  glass" is defined as glass initially manufactured in a sheet form.
"Flavored Almonds" means pasteurized almond meats that
						  are introduced to the flavoring process. Flavoring occurs when almonds are
						  passed through a seasoning mixture to add various snack food flavors and then
						  dehydrated to a desired moisture level for packaging.
"Flavored Pistachios" means hulled and dried pistachios
						  that are introduced to the flavoring process. Flavoring occurs when pistachios
						  are passed through a seasoning mixture to add various snack food flavors and
						  then dehydrated to a desired moisture level for packaging. Flavored pistachios
						  may include pistachios hulled and dried internally, or pistachios hulled and
						  dried by other facilities.
"Fluid Milk Product" means a product that meets the
						  definition of milk, skim milk, buttermilk, ultrafiltered milk, or cream.
"Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas" means sulfur hexafluoride
						  (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), and any fluorocarbon except for controlled
						  substances as defined at 40 CFR Part 82 (May 10, 1995), subpart A and
						  substances with vapor pressures of less than 1 mm of Hg absolute at 25 C. With
						  these exceptions, "fluorinated GHG" includes any hydrofluorocarbon; any
						  perfluorocarbon; any fully fluorinated linear, branched, or cyclic alkane,
						  ether, tertiary amine, or aminoether; any perfluoropolyether; and any
						  hydrofluoropolyether.
"Fluting" means the center segment of corrugated
						  shipping containers, being faced with linerboard (testliner/kraftliner) on both
						  sides. Fluting covers mainly papers made from recycled fiber but this group
						  also holds paperboard that is made from chemical and semichemical pulp.
"Forest Buffer Account" means a holding account for ARB
						  offset credits issued to forest offset projects. It is used as a general
						  insurance mechanism against unintentional reversals, for all forest offset
						  projects listed under a Compliance Offset Protocol.
"Forest Offset Project" means an offset project that
						  uses or has used either the offset protocols identified in section
						  97973(a)(2)(C)4.
						  or one of the Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocols identified as
						  offset quantification methodologies in the definition of the Program for
						  Recognition of Early Action Offset Credits in section
						  95802(a).
"Forest Owner" means the owner of any interest in the
						  real (as opposed to personal) property involved in a forest offset project,
						  excluding government agency third party beneficiaries of conservation
						  easements. Generally, a Forest Owner is the owner in fee of the real property
						  involved in a forest offset project. In some cases, one entity may be the owner
						  in fee while another entity may have an interest in the trees or the timber on
						  the property, in which case all entities or individuals with interest in the
						  real property are collectively considered the Forest Owners, however, a single
						  Forest Owner must be identified as the Offset Project Operator.
"Fossil Fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or
						  any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material for the
						  purpose of creating useful heat.
"Fractionates" means the process of separating natural
						  gas liquids into their constituent liquid products.
"Freshwater diatomite filter aids" means inorganic
						  mineral powders derived by processing freshwater diatomite which is fossilized
						  single-celled algae found in lake beds. Filter aids are used in combination
						  with filtration hardware to enhance filtration performance to separate unwanted
						  solids from fluids.
"Fried potato chip" means a thin slice of potato that
						  is deep fried until crunchy.
"Fuel" means solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible
						  material. Volatile organic compounds burned in destruction devices are not
						  fuels unless they can sustain combustion without use of a pilot fuel, and such
						  destruction does not result in a commercially useful end product.
"Fuel Analytical Data" means data collected about fuel
						  usage (including mass, volume, and flow rate) and fuel characteristics
						  (including heating value, carbon content, and molecular weight) to support
						  emissions calculation.
"Fuel Cell" means a device that converts the chemical
						  energy of a fuel and an oxidant directly into electrical energy without using
						  combustion. Fuel cells require a continuous source of fuel and oxidant to
						  operate.
"Fuel supplier" means a supplier of petroleum products,
						  a supplier of biomass-derived transportation fuels, a supplier of natural gas
						  including operators of interstate and intrastate pipelines, a supplier of
						  liquefied natural gas, or a supplier of liquefied petroleum gas as specified in
						  MRR.
"Fugitive Emissions" means those emissions which are
						  unintentional and could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or
						  other functionally-equivalent opening.
"Full Offset Verification" means, for the purposes of
						  this article, offset verification services that meet all the requirements of
						  sections 95977.1 and
						  95977.2, including a site
						  visit.
"Galvanized Steel Sheet" means steel coated with a thin
						  layer of zinc to provide corrosion resistance for such products as garbage
						  cans, storage tanks, or framing for buildings. Sheet steel normally must be
						  cold-rolled prior to the galvanizing stage.
"Gas" means the state of matter distinguished from the
						  solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively
						  great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the
						  ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed
						  uniformly throughout any container.
"Gaseous Hydrogen" means hydrogen in a gaseous
						  state.
"Geologic Sequestration" means the process of injecting
						  CO2 captured from an emissions source into deep
						  subsurface rock formations for permanent storage.
"Global Warming Potential" or "GWP" means the ratio of
						  the time-integrated radiative forcing from the instantaneous release of one
						  kilogram of a trace substance relative to that of one kilogram of a reference
						  gas, i.e., CO2.
"Granulated refined sugar" means white refined sugar
						  (99.9% sucrose), made by dissolving and purifying raw sugar then drying it to
						  prevent clumping.
"Grape Juice concentrate" means the liquid from crushed
						  grapes, from the botanical genus
Vitas
, processed to remove
						  water.
"Grape seed extract" means the extract from grape seeds
						  containing concentrations of proanthocyanidin.
"Greenhouse Gas" or "GHG" means carbon dioxide
						  (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen
						  trifluoride (NF3), nitrous oxide
						  (N2O), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6),
						  hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and other fluorinated
						  greenhouse gases as defined in this section.
"Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction" or "GHG Emission
						  Reduction" or "Greenhouse Gas Reduction" or "GHG Reduction" means a calculated
						  decrease in GHG emissions relative to a project baseline over a specified
						  period of time.
"Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source" or "GHG Emissions
						  Source" means, in the context of offset credits, any type of emitting activity
						  that releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
"Greenhouse Gas Removal" or "GHG Removal" means the
						  calculated total mass of a GHG removed from the atmosphere over a specified
						  period of time.
"Greenhouse Gas Removal Enhancement" or "GHG Removal
						  Enhancement" means a calculated increase in GHG removals relative to a project
						  baseline.
"Greenhouse Gas Reservoir" or "GHG Reservoir" means a
						  physical unit or component of the biosphere, geosphere, or hydrosphere with the
						  capability to store, accumulate, or release a GHG removed from the atmosphere
						  by a GHG sink or a GHG captured from a GHG emission source.
"Greenhouse Gas Sink" or "GHG Sink" means a physical
						  unit or process that removes a GHG from the atmosphere.
"Gypsum" means a mineral with the chemical formula
						  CaSO4·2H2O.
"HD-5" or "Special Duty Propane" has the same meaning
						  as contained in MRR.
"HD-10" has the same meaning as contained in
						  MRR.
"Hold" in the context of a compliance instrument, is to
						  have the serial number assigned to that instrument registered into an account
						  assigned to an entity that is registered into the California Cap-and-Trade
						  Program or an External Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System to which
						  California has linked its Cap-and-Trade Program pursuant to subarticle 12, or
						  an account under the control of the Executive Officer.
"Holding Account" or "General Holding Account" means an
						  account created for each covered entity, opt-in covered entity, or voluntarily
						  associated entity to hold compliance instruments.
"Horsepower Tested" means the total horsepower of all
						  turbine and generator set units tested prior to sale.
"Hot Rolled Steel Sheet" means steel produced from the
						  rolling mill that reduces a hot slab into a coil of specified thickness at a
						  relatively high temperature.
"Hydrocarbon" means a chemical compound containing
						  predominantly carbon and hydrogen.
"Hydrofluorocarbon" or "HFC" means a class of GHGs
						  consisting of hydrogen, fluorine, and carbon.
"Hydrogen" means diatomic molecular hydrogen, the
						  lightest of all gases.
"Imported Electricity" means electricity generated
						  outside the state of California and delivered to serve load located inside the
						  state of California. Imported electricity includes electricity delivered across
						  balancing authority areas from a first point of receipt located outside the
						  state of California, to the first point of delivery located inside the state of
						  California, having a final point of delivery in California. Imported
						  electricity includes electricity imported into California over a
						  multi-jurisdictional retail provider's transmission and distribution system, or
						  electricity imported into the state of California from a facility or unit
						  physically located outside the state of California with the first point of
						  interconnection into a California balancing authority's transmission and
						  distribution system. Imported electricity includes electricity that is a result
						  of cogeneration located outside the state of California. Imported electricity
						  does not include electricity wheeled through California, defined pursuant to
						  MRR section
						  95102(a).
						  Imported electricity does not include electricity imported into the CAISO
						  balancing authority area to serve retail customers that are located within the
						  CAISO balancing authority area, but outside the state of California. Imported
						  Electricity does not include electricity imported into California by an
						  Independent System Operator to obtain or provide emergency assistance under
						  applicable emergency preparedness and operations reliability standards of the
						  North American Electric Reliability Corporation or Western Electricity
						  Coordinating Council. Imported electricity shall include Energy Imbalance
						  Market (EIM) dispatches designated by the CAISO's optimization model and
						  reported by the CAISO to EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators as
						  electricity imported to serve retail customers load that is located within the
						  state of California.
"Importer of fuel" means an entity that imports fuel
						  into California and who is the importer of record under federal customs law.
						  For imported fuel not subject to federal customs law, the "importer of fuel" is
						  the owner of the fuel upon its entering into California if the eventual
						  transfer of ownership of the product to an end user or marketer located in
						  California occurs at a location inside California. However, where the transfer
						  of ownership of the product fuel to a California end user or marketer occurs at
						  a location outside of California, the "importer of fuel" is the producer,
						  marketer, or distributor that is the seller of the fuel to the end user or
						  marketer located inside California. Pursuant to section
						  95122, only importers of liquefied
						  petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas are subject to
						  reporting as an importer of fuel.
"Initial Crediting Period" means the crediting period
						  that begins with the first day of the first reporting period which receives a
						  Positive Offset or Qualified Positive Offset Verification Statement and has
						  that Offset Verification Statement approved by ARB.
"Intentional Reversal" means any reversal, except as
						  provided below, which is caused by a forest owner's negligence, gross
						  negligence, or willful intent, including harvesting, development, and harm to
						  the area within the offset project boundary, or caused by approved growth
						  models overestimating carbon stocks. A reversal caused by an intentional back
						  burn set by, or at the request of, a local, state, or federal fire protection
						  agency for the purpose of protecting forestlands from an advancing wildfire
						  that began on another property through no negligence, gross negligence, or
						  willful misconduct of the forest owner is not considered an intentional
						  reversal but, rather, an unintentional reversal. Receiving Adverse Offset
						  Verification Statements on two consecutive offset verifications after the end
						  of the final crediting period will be considered an intentional
						  reversal.
"Intermediate dairy ingredients" means intermediate
						  (non-final) dairy products imported from other dairy facilities that enter the
						  rehydrating process, which uses water and heat to manufacture powdered milk
						  products.
"Intermittent bleed pneumatic devices" means automated
						  flow control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for
						  automatically maintaining a process condition such as liquid level, pressure,
						  delta-pressure and temperature. These are snap-acting or throttling devices
						  that discharge all or a portion of the full volume of the actuator
						  intermittently when control action is necessary, but do not bleed continuously.
						  Intermittent bleed devices which bleed at a cumulative rate of 6 standard cubic
						  feet per hour or greater are considered high bleed devices for the purposes of
						  this Regulation.
"Interstate Pipeline" means any entity that owns or
						  operates a natural gas pipeline delivering natural gas to consumers in the
						  state and is subject to rate regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory
						  Commission.
"Intrastate Pipeline" means any pipeline or piping
						  system wholly within the State of California that is delivering natural gas to
						  end-users and is not regulated as a public utility gas corporation by the
						  California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), is not a publicly owned natural
						  gas utility, and is not regulated as an interstate pipeline by the Federal
						  Energy Regulatory Commission. This definition includes onshore petroleum and
						  natural gas production facilities and natural gas processing facilities, as
						  defined by sections
						  95150(a)(2)-(3)
						  of MRR, that deliver pipeline and/or non-pipeline quality natural gas to one or
						  more end users. Facility operators that operate an interconnection pipeline
						  that connects their facility to an interstate pipeline, or that share an
						  interconnection pipeline to an interstate pipeline with other nearby
						  facilities, are not considered intrastate pipeline operators. Facilities that
						  receive gas from an upstream LDC and redeliver a portion of the gas to one or
						  more adjacent facilities are not considered intrastate pipelines.
"Inventory Position" means a contractual agreement with
						  the terminal operator for the use of the storage facilities and terminaling
						  services for the fuel.
"Issue" or "Issuance" means, in the context of offset
						  credits, the creation of ARB offset credits or registry offset credits
						  equivalent to the number of verified GHG reductions or GHG removal enhancements
						  for an offset project over a specified period of time. In the context of
						  allowances, issue means the placement of an allowance into an account under the
						  control of the Executive Officer.
"Joint Powers Authority" or "JPA" means an public
						  agency that is formed and created pursuant to the provisions of Government Code
						  sections
						  6500. et
						  seq.
"Kerosene" is a light petroleum distillate with a
						  maximum distillation temperature of 400 °F at the 10-percent recovery
						  point, a final maximum boiling point of 572 °F, a minimum flash point of
						  100 °F, and a maximum freezing point of -22 °F. Included are No. 1-K
						  and No. 2-K, distinguished by maximum sulfur content (0.04 and 0.30 percent of
						  total mass, respectively), as well as all other grades of kerosene called range
						  or stove oil. Kerosene does not include kerosene-type jet fuel.
"Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel" means a kerosene-based product
						  used in commercial and military turbojet and turboprop aircraft. The product
						  has a maximum distillation temperature of 400 °F at the 10 percent recovery
						  point and a final maximum boiling point of 572 °F. Included are Jet A, Jet
						  A-1, JP-5, and JP-8.
"Lactose" means a white to creamy white crystalline
						  product, possessing a mildly sweet taste. It may be anhydrous, contain one
						  molecule of water of hydration, or be a mixture of both forms.
"Lager beer" means beer produced with bottom fermenting
						  yeast strains,
Saccharomyces uvarum
(or
carlsbergensis
) at colder fermentation temperatures than
						  ales.
"Lead and lead alloys" means lead or the metal alloy
						  that combines lead and other elements such as antimony, selenium, arsenic,
						  copper, tin, or calcium.
"Lead Verifier" means, for purposes of this article, a
						  person that has met all of the requirements in section
						  95132(b)(2) of
						  MRR and who may act as the lead verifier of an offset verification team
						  providing offset verification services or as a lead verifier providing an
						  independent review of offset verification services rendered.
"Lead Verifier Independent Reviewer" or "Independent
						  Reviewer" means, for purposes of this article, a lead verifier within a
						  verification body who has not participated in conducting offset verification
						  services for an Offset Project Developer or Authorized Project Designee for the
						  current Offset Project Data Report and who provides an independent review of
						  offset verification services rendered for an Offset Project Developer or
						  Authorized Project Designee as required in section
						  95977.1(b)(3)(R).
						  The independent reviewer is not required to also meet the requirements for a
						  sector specific or offset project specific verifier.
"Legacy Contract" means a written contract or tolling
						  agreement, originally executed prior to September 1, 2006, governing the sale
						  of electricity and/or legacy contract qualified thermal output at a price,
						  determined by either a fixed price or price formula, that does not provide for
						  recovery of the costs associated with compliance with this regulation; the
						  originally executed contract or agreement must have remained in effect and must
						  not have been amended since September 1, 2006 to change or affect the terms
						  governing the California greenhouse gas emissions responsibility, price, or
						  amount of electricity or legacy contract qualified thermal output sold, or the
						  expiration date. For purposes of this regulation, legacy contracts exclude
						  contracts that have been amended to include a Legacy PPA Amendment, as defined
						  in the Combined Heat and Power Program Settlement Agreement Term Sheet pursuant
						  to CPUC Decision 10-12-035, with a privately owned utility as defined in the
						  Public Utilities Code section
						  216
						  (referred to as an Investor Owned Utility or IOU). This definition of a "Legacy
						  Contract" does not apply to opt-in covered entities.
"Legacy Contract Counterparty" means an entity that has
						  been identified, pursuant to section
						  95894, and may also be identified
						  under industrial allocation pursuant to Table 8-1 to receive an allowance
						  allocation, and has a contract to purchase legacy contract qualified thermal
						  output and/or electricity from a legacy contract generator with an industrial
						  counterparty, or from a legacy contract generator without an industrial
						  counterparty, determined by the Executive Officer pursuant to section
						  95894(b) to be
						  eligible for transition assistance under section
						  95894.
"Legacy Contract Emissions" means the covered emissions
						  calculated, based on a positive or qualified positive emissions data
						  verification statement issued pursuant to MRR, by the legacy contract generator
						  with an industrial counterparty or legacy contract generator without an
						  industrial counterparty, that are a result of either electricity and/or legacy
						  contract qualified thermal output sold to a legacy contract counterparty, and
						  calculated pursuant to section
						  95894 of this regulation.
"Legacy Contract Generator with an Industrial
						  Counterparty" means a covered entity that generates and sells electricity,
						  thermal energy, or both, subject to a legacy contract with a legacy contract
						  counterparty that is identified as eligible for allowance allocation pursuant
						  to section
						  95891.
"Legacy Contract Generator without an Industrial
						  Counterparty" means a covered entity that generates and sells electricity,
						  thermal energy, or both, subject to a legacy contract, and does not also sell
						  electricity or thermal energy under the legacy contract to a covered entity
						  eligible for allowance allocation pursuant to section
						  95891.
"Legacy Contract Qualified Thermal Output" means
						  thermal energy that is sold to a legacy contract counterparty, and reported
						  pursuant to MRR.
"Less Intensive Verification" means, for the purposes
						  of this article, the offset verification services provided in interim years
						  between full offset verifications of an Offset Project Data Report; less
						  intensive verification of an Offset Project Data Report only requires data
						  checks and document reviews of an Offset Project Data Report based on the
						  analysis and risk assessment in the most current sampling plan developed as
						  part of the most recent full offset verification services. This level of
						  verification may only be used if the offset verifier can provide findings with
						  a reasonable level of assurance.
"Limited Use Holding Account" means an account in which
						  allowances are placed after an entity qualifies for a direct allocation under
						  section 95890(b) or
						  95890(f).
						  Allowances placed in this account can only be removed for consignment to the
						  auction pursuant to section
						  95831(a)(3).
"Linkage" means the approval of compliance instruments
						  from an external greenhouse gas emission trading system (GHG ETS) to meet
						  compliance obligations under this article, and the reciprocal approval of
						  compliance instruments issued by California to meet compliance obligation in an
						  external GHG ETS.
"Liquefied natural gas" or "LNG" means natural gas
						  (primarily methane) that has been liquefied by reducing its temperature to -260
						  degrees Fahrenheit at atmospheric pressure.
"Liquefied Petroleum Gas" or "LPG" means a flammable
						  mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel. LPG is primarily mixtures of
						  propane, butane, propene (propylene) and ethane. The most common specification
						  categories are propane grades, HD-5, HD-10, and commercial grade propane. LPG
						  also includes both odorized and non-odorized liquid petroleum gas, and is also
						  referred to as propane.
"Liquid Color Concentrate" means a fluid extract from
						  fruits and/or vegetables reduced by driving off water that has the purpose of
						  altering the color of materials and/or food.
"Liquid Hydrogen" means hydrogen in a liquid
						  state.
"Lobbying" for the purposes of sections
						  95892(d)(7) and
						  95893(d)(7) means
						  communicating directly or through an agent with any federal or State elected
						  official, agency official, or legislative official for the purpose of
						  influencing legislative or administrative action.
"Long-Term Contract" means a contract for the delivery
						  of electricity entered into before January 1, 2006, for the term of five years
						  or more.
"Low-bleed pneumatic devices" means automated flow
						  control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for maintaining a
						  process condition such as liquid level, pressure, delta-pressure and
						  temperature. Part of the gas power stream that is regulated by the process
						  condition flows to a valve actuator controller where it vents continuously or
						  intermittently bleeds to the atmosphere at a rate equal to or less than six
						  standard cubic feet per hour.
"Mandatory Reporting Regulation" or "MRR" means ARB's
						  Regulation for the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions as set forth
						  in title 17, California Code of Regulations, chapter 1, subchapter 10, article
						  2 (commencing with section
						  95100).
"Market Index" means any published index of quantities
						  or prices based on results of market transactions.
"Market-Shifting Leakage," in the context of an offset
						  project, means increased GHG emissions or decreased GHG removals outside an
						  offset project's boundary due to the effects of an offset project on an
						  established market for goods or services.
"Marketer" means a purchasing-selling entity that
						  delivers electricity and is not a retail provider.
"Methane" or "CH4" means a GHG
						  consisting on the molecular level of a single carbon atom and four hydrogen
						  atoms.
"Metric Ton" or "MT" means a common international
						  measurement for mass, equivalent to 2,204.6 pounds or 1.1 short tons.
"Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free
						  from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.
						  Milk that is in final package form for beverage use shall have been pasteurized
						  or ultrapasteurized, and shall contain not less than 8 ¼ percent milk
						  solids not fat and not less than 3 ¼ percent milkfat. Milk may have been
						  adjusted by separating part of the milkfat from, or by adding cream to,
						  concentrated milk, dry whole milk, skim milk, concentrated skim milk, or nonfat
						  dry milk. Milk may be homogenized.
"Milk Powder (high heat)" means milk powder obtained by
						  removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture (by
						  weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content less than 1.5
						  mg/g powder. This definition is in effect as of January 1, 2018.
"Milk Powder (low heat)" means milk powder obtained by
						  removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture (by
						  weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content greater than or
						  equal to 6 mg/g powder. This definition is in effect as of January 1,
						  2018.
"Milk Powder (medium heat)" means milk powder obtained
						  by removing water from pasteurized milk. It contains no more than 5% moisture
						  (by weight) and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content greater than
						  or equal to 1.5 mg/g powder and less than 6 mg/g powder. This definition is in
						  effect as of January 1, 2018.
"Monitoring" means, in the context of offset projects,
						  the ongoing collection and archiving of all relevant and required data for
						  determining the project baseline, project emissions, and quantifying GHG
						  reductions or GHG removal enhancements that are attributable to the offset
						  project.
"Multi-Jurisdictional Retail Provider" means a retail
						  provider that provides electricity to consumers in California and in one or
						  more other states in a contiguous service territory or from a common power
						  system.
"Municipal Solid Waste" or "MSW" means solid-phase
						  household, commercial/retail, and/or institutional waste. Household waste
						  includes material discarded by single and multiple residential dwellings,
						  hotels, motels, and other similar permanent or temporary housing establishments
						  or facilities. Commercial/retail waste includes material discarded by stores,
						  offices, restaurants, warehouses, non-manufacturing activities at industrial
						  facilities, and other similar establishments or facilities. Institutional waste
						  includes material discarded by schools, nonmedical waste discarded by
						  hospitals, material discarded by non-manufacturing activities at prisons and
						  government facilities, and material discarded by other similar establishments
						  or facilities. Household, commercial/retail, and institutional wastes include
						  yard waste, refuse-derived fuel, and motor vehicle maintenance materials.
						  Insofar as there is separate collection, processing, and disposal of industrial
						  source waste streams consisting of used oil, wood pallets, construction,
						  renovation, and demolition wastes (which includes, but is not limited to,
						  railroad ties and telephone poles), paper, clean wood, plastics, industrial
						  process or manufacturing wastes, medical waste, motor vehicle parts or vehicle
						  fluff, or used tires that do not contain hazardous waste identified or listed
						  under 42 U.S.C. §
																6921, such wastes are not municipal solid
						  waste. However, such wastes qualify as municipal solid waste where they are
						  collected with other municipal solid waste or are otherwise combined with other
						  municipal solid waste for processing and/or disposal.
"Natural Gas" means a naturally occurring mixture or
						  process derivative of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases found in geologic
						  formations beneath the earth's surface, of which its constituents include
						  methane, heavier hydrocarbons, and carbon dioxide. Natural gas may be field
						  quality (which varies widely) or pipeline quality. For the purposes of this
						  rule, the definition of natural gas includes similarly constituted fuels such
						  as field production gas, process gas, and fuel gas.
"Natural Gas Liquids" or "NGLs", means those
						  hydrocarbons in natural gas that are separated from the gas as liquids through
						  the process of absorption, condensation, adsorption, or other methods. Natural
						  gas liquids can be classified according to their vapor pressures as low
						  (condensate), intermediate (natural gasoline), and high (liquefied petroleum
						  gas) vapor pressure. Generally, such liquids consist of ethane, propane,
						  butanes, pentanes and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. Bulk NGLs refers to
						  mixtures of NGLs that are sold or delivered as undifferentiated product from
						  natural gas processing plants.
"Natural gas supplier" or "supplier of natural gas"
						  means any entity that distributes or uses natural gas in California and is
						  described below:
(A) A public utility
						gas corporation operating in California;
(B) A publicly owned natural gas utility
						operating in California; or
(C) The
						operator of an intrastate pipeline not included in section
						95811(c)(1) or
						section 95811(c)(2) that
						distributes natural gas directly to end users. For the purposes of this
						article, an interstate pipeline is not a natural gas supplier.
"NERC e-tag" means North American Electric Reliability
						  Corporation (NERC) energy tag representing transactions on the North American
						  bulk electricity market scheduled to flow between or across balancing authority
						  areas.
"Nitric Acid" means HNO3 of 100
						  percent purity.
"Nonfat dry milk and skimmed milk powder (high heat)"
						  means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized skim milk. It
						  contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and no more than 1.5% milkfat (by
						  weight). It is derived from cumulative heat treatment of 88 °C for 30
						  minutes and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content equal to or less
						  than 1.5 mg/g powder. This definition is only in effect through December 31,
						  2017.
"Nonfat dry milk and skimmed milk powder (low heat)"
						  means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized skim milk. It
						  contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and no more than 1.5% milkfat (by
						  weight). It is derived from cumulative heat treatment of milk no higher than 70
						  °C for 2 minutes and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content
						  equal to or greater than 6 mg/g powder. This definition is only in effect
						  through December 31, 2017.
"Nonfat dry milk and skimmed milk powder (medium heat)"
						  means milk powder obtained by removing water from pasteurized skim milk. It
						  contains no more than 5% moisture (by weight) and no more than 1.5% milkfat (by
						  weight). It is derived from cumulative heat treatment of 70-78 °C for 20
						  minutes and includes undenatured whey protein nitrogen content equal to or
						  greater than 1.51 mg/g powder up to 5.99 mg/g powder. This definition is only
						  in effect through December 31, 2017.
"Non-Aseptic tomato juice" means tomato juice packaged
						  using methods other than aseptic preparation.
"Non-Aseptic tomato paste and tomato puree" means the
						  sum of tomato paste and tomato puree packaged using methods other than aseptic
						  preparation. Non-Aseptic paste and puree is normalized to 24% tomato soluble
						  solids. Non-Aseptic Paste and puree normalized to 24% TSS = (%TSS - raw
						  TSS)/(24 - raw TSS).
"Non-Aseptic whole and diced tomato" means the sum of
						  whole and diced tomatoes packaged using methods other than aseptic
						  preparation.
Sum of Non-Aseptic Whole and Diced Tomatoes = Whole
						  Tomatoes + (Diced Tomatoes x 1.05).
"Non-exempt Biomass derived CO2"
						  means CO2 emissions resulting from the combustion of
						  fuel not listed under section
						  95852.2(a), or
						  that is not verifiable under section
						  95131(i) of
						  MRR.
"Non-thermal enhanced oil recovery" or "non-thermal
						  EOR" means the process of using methods other than thermal EOR, which may
						  include water flooding or CO2 injection, to increase the
						  recovery of crude oil from a reservoir.
"Notice of Delegation" means a formal notice used to
						  delegate authority to make an electronic submission to the accounts
						  administrator.
"Offset Material Misstatement" means a discrepancy,
						  omission, misreporting, or aggregation of the three, identified in the course
						  of offset verification services that leads an offset verification team to
						  believe that an Offset Project Data Report contains errors resulting in an
						  overstatement of the reported total GHG emission reductions or GHG removal
						  enhancements greater than 5.00 percent. Discrepancies, omissions, or
						  misreporting, or an aggregation of the three, that result in an understatement
						  of total reported GHG emission reductions or GHG removal enhancements in the
						  Offset Project Data Report is not an offset material misstatement.
"Offset Project" means all equipment, materials, items,
						  or actions that are directly related to or have an impact upon GHG reductions,
						  project emissions, or GHG removal enhancements within the offset project
						  boundary.
"Offset Project Boundary" is defined by and includes
						  all GHG emission sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs that are affected by an
						  offset project and under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized
						  Project Designee. GHG emissions sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs not under
						  control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee are not
						  included in the offset project boundary.
"Offset Project Commencement" means, unless otherwise
						  specified in a Compliance Offset Protocol, the date of the beginning of
						  construction, work, or installation for an offset project involving physical
						  construction, other work at an offset project site, or installation of
						  equipment or materials. For an offset project that involves the implementation
						  of a management activity, "offset project commencement" means, unless otherwise
						  specified in a Compliance Offset Protocol, the date on which such activity is
						  first implemented.
"Offset Project Data Report" means the report prepared
						  by an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee each Reporting
						  Period that provides the information, documentation, and attestations required
						  by this article or a Compliance Offset Protocol. An unattested report is not a
						  valid Offset Project Data Report, and therefore will not satisfy any deadlines
						  regarding submittal of an Offset Project Data Report.
"Offset Project Listing" or "Listing" means the
						  information, documentation and attestations required by this article or a
						  Compliance Offset Protocol that an Offset Project Operator or Authorized
						  Project Designee has submitted to ARB or an Offset Project Registry, that has
						  been reviewed for completeness by ARB and/or the Offset Project Registry and
						  publicly listed by ARB or the Offset Project Registry for an initial or renewed
						  crediting period. An Offset Project Listing must include the attestations
						  required by this article in order to be considered complete by ARB or the
						  Offset Project Registry.
"Offset Project Operator" means the entity(ies) with
						  legal authority to implement the offset project. Only a Primary Account
						  Representative or Alternate Account Representative, as defined in this article,
						  may sign Listing documents, an Offset Project Data Report, a Request for
						  Issuance, or attestations on behalf of the Offset Project Operator.
"Offset Project Registry" means an entity that meets
						  the requirements of section
						  95986 and is approved by ARB that
						  lists offset projects, collects Offset Project Data Reports, facilitates
						  verification of Offset Project Data Reports, and issues registry offset credits
						  for offset projects being implemented using a Compliance Offset
						  Protocol.
"Offset Protocol" means a documented set of procedures
						  and requirements to quantify ongoing GHG reductions or GHG removal enhancements
						  achieved by an offset project and calculate the project baseline. Offset
						  protocols specify relevant data collection and monitoring procedures, emission
						  factors, and conservatively account for uncertainty and activity-shifting and
						  market-shifting leakage risks associated with an offset project.
"Offset Verification" means a systematic, independent,
						  and documented process for evaluation of an Offset Project Operator's or
						  Authorized Project Designee's Offset Project Data Report against ARB's
						  Compliance Offset Protocols and this article for calculating and reporting
						  project baseline emissions, project emissions, GHG reductions, and GHG removal
						  enhancements.
"Offset Verification Services" means services provided
						  during offset verification as specified in sections
						  95977.1 and
						  95977.2, including reviewing an
						  Offset Project Operator's or Authorized Project Designee's Offset Project Data
						  Report, verifying its accuracy according to the standards specified in this
						  article and applicable Compliance Offset Protocol, assessing the Offset Project
						  Operator's or Authorized Project Designee's compliance with this article and
						  applicable Compliance Offset Protocol, and submitting an Offset Verification
						  Statement to ARB or an Offset Project Registry. For purposes of this article,
						  Offset Verification Services begin with the Planning Meeting and end with the
						  issuance of ARB offset credits, and do not include preliminary planning
						  activities such as scheduling meetings and site visits, or preparing contract
						  documents.
"Offset Verification Statement" means the final
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether an Offset Project
						  Operator's or Authorized Project Designee's Offset Project Data Report is free
						  of an offset material misstatement, and whether the Offset Project Data Report
						  conforms to the requirements of this article and applicable Compliance Offset
						  Protocol, and containing the attestations required pursuant to this
						  article.
"Offset Verification Team" means all of those working
						  for a verification body, including all subcontractors, to provide offset
						  verification services for an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project
						  Designee.
"On-purpose hydrogen gas" means molecular hydrogen gas
						  produced as a result of a process or processes dedicated to producing hydrogen
						  (e.g., steam methane reforming).
"Operational Control" for a facility subject to this
						  article means the authority to introduce and implement operating,
						  environmental, health, and safety policies. In any circumstance where this
						  authority is shared among multiple entities, the entity holding the permit to
						  operate from the local air pollution control district or air quality management
						  district is considered to have operational control for purposes of this
						  article.
"Operator" means the entity, including an owner, having
						  operational control of a facility, or other entity from which an emissions data
						  report is required under article 2, section
						  95104, title 17, Greenhouse Gas
						  Emissions Data Report. For onshore petroleum and natural gas production, the
						  operator is the operating entity listed on the state well drilling permit, or a
						  state operating permit for wells where no drilling permit is issued by the
						  state.
"Opt-in Covered Entity" means an entity that meets the
						  requirements of 95811 that does not exceed the inclusion thresholds set forth
						  in section
						  95812 and may elect to voluntarily
						  opt-in to the Cap-and-Trade Program and be willing to be subject to the
						  requirements set forth in this article.
"Over-the-Counter" means the trading of carbon
						  compliance instruments, contracts, or other instruments not executed or entered
						  for clearing on any exchange.
"Oxidation" means a reaction in which the atoms in an
						  element lose electrons and the valence of the element is correspondingly
						  increased.
"Ozone Depleting Substances" or "ODS" means a compound
						  that contributes to stratospheric ozone depletion.
"Pasteurized Almonds" means raw almond meats that are
						  introduced to the pasteurizing process. Pasteurizing partially sterilizes the
						  almonds to destroy objectionable organisms without major chemical alteration of
						  the almond meats.
"Perfluorocarbons" or "PFCs" means a class of
						  greenhouse gases consisting on the molecular level of carbon and
						  fluorine.
"Permanent" means, in the context of offset credits,
						  either that GHG reductions and GHG removal enhancements are not reversible, or
						  when GHG reductions and GHG removal enhancements may be reversible, that
						  mechanisms are in place to replace any reversed GHG emission reductions and GHG
						  removal enhancements to ensure that all credited reductions endure for at least
						  100 years.
"Permanent Retirement Registry" means the publicly
						  available registry in which the Executive Officer will record the retired
						  compliance instruments.
"Petroleum" means oil removed from the earth and the
						  oil derived from tar sands, and/or shale.
"Petroleum Refinery" or "Refinery" means any facility
						  engaged in producing gasoline, gasoline blending stocks, naphtha, kerosene,
						  distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or asphalt (bitumen)
						  through distillation of petroleum or through re-distillation, cracking, or
						  reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives. Facilities that distill only
						  pipeline transmix (off-spec material created when different specification
						  products mix during pipeline transportation) are not petroleum refineries,
						  regardless of the products produced.
"Pickled Steel Sheet" means hot rolled steel sheet that
						  is sent through a series of hydrochloric acid baths that remove the oxides, and
						  includes both finished pickled steel, and steel produced by the facility as an
						  intermediate product for further processing.
"Pipeline Quality Natural Gas" means, for the purpose
						  of calculating emissions under MRR, natural gas having a high heat value
						  greater than 970 Btu/scf and equal to or less than 1,100 Btu/scf, and which is
						  at least ninety percent (90%) methane by volume, and which is less than five
						  percent (5%) carbon dioxide by volume.
"Pistachio" means the nuts of the pistachio tree
Pistacia vera
.
"Plaster" is calcined gypsum that is produced and sold
						  as a finished product and is not used in the production of plasterboard at the
						  same facility.
"Plasterboard" is a panel made of gypsum plaster
						  pressed between two thick sheets of paper.
"Point of Delivery" or "POD" means the point on an
						  electricity transmission or distribution system where a deliverer makes
						  electricity available to a receiver or available to serve load. This point can
						  be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the
						  transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to
						  another system, or a distribution substation where electricity is imported into
						  California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's distribution
						  system.
"Point of Receipt" or "POR" means the point on an
						  electricity transmission or distribution system where an electricity receiver
						  receives electricity from a deliverer. This point can be an interconnection
						  with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's
						  transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system.
"Portable" means designed and capable of being carried
						  or moved from one location to another. Indications of portability include
						  wheels, skids, carrying handles, dolly, trailer, or platform. Equipment is not
						  portable if any one of the following conditions exists: the equipment is
						  attached to a foundation; the equipment or a replacement resides at the same
						  location for more than 12 consecutive months; the equipment is located at a
						  seasonal facility and operates during the full annual operating period of the
						  seasonal facility, remains at the facility for at least two years, and operates
						  at that facility for at least three months each year; or the equipment is moved
						  from one location to another in an attempt to circumvent the portable residence
						  time requirements of this definition.
"Position Holder" means an entity that holds an
						  inventory position in motor vehicle fuel, ethanol, distillate fuel, biodiesel,
						  or renewable diesel as reflected in the records of the terminal operator or a
						  terminal operator that owns motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel in its terminal.
						  "Position holder" does not include inventory held outside of a terminal, fuel
						  jobbers (unless directly holding inventory at the terminal), retail
						  establishments, or other fuel suppliers not holding inventory at a fuel
						  terminal.
"Positive Emissions Data Verification Statement" means
						  a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and that the emissions data conforms to the requirements of MRR. For purposes
						  of this definition, 'material misstatement' shall have the same meaning as
						  ascribed to it in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Positive Offset Verification Statement" means an
						  Offset Verification Statement rendered by a verification body attesting that
						  the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the submitted
						  Offset Project Data Report is free of an offset material misstatement and that
						  the Offset Project Data Report conforms to the requirements of this article and
						  applicable Compliance Offset Protocol.
"Positive Product Data Verification Statement" means a
						  verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and that the product data conforms to the requirements of MRR. For purposes of
						  this definition, 'material misstatement' shall have the same meaning as
						  ascribed to it in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Poultry deli product" means the products, including
						  corn dogs, sausages, and franks, that contain a significant portion of
						  pre-processed poultry, that are cooked and sold wholesale or retail, or
						  transferred to other facilities.
"Power" means electricity, except where the context
						  makes clear that another meaning is intended.
"Power contract" shall have the same meaning ascribed
						  in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Pretzel" is a crisp biscuit made from dough formed
						  into a knot or stick, flavored with salt, passed through a caustic hot water
						  bath and baked in an oven.
"Price Ceiling" means the maximum fixed price at which
						  allowances and price ceiling units would be available for sale to covered
						  entities in the Program, pursuant to section
						  95915.
"Price Ceiling Account" means the holding account under
						  the control of the Executive Officer in which allowances and price ceiling
						  units would be transferred pursuant to this Article.
"Price Ceiling Unit" means the additional greenhouse
						  gas emission reductions that are offered for sale at the price ceiling. Moneys
						  generated from issuance of price ceiling units will be expended to achieve
						  emission reductions, on at least a metric ton for metric ton basis, that are
						  real, permanent, quantifiable, verifiable, enforceable by the state board and
						  in addition to any greenhouse gas emission reduction otherwise required by law
						  or regulation and any other greenhouse gas emission reduction that otherwise
						  would occur.
"Primary Account Representative" means an individual
						  authorized by a registered entity through the registration process outlined in
						  section 95832 to make submissions to the
						  Executive Officer and the tracking system in all matters pertaining to this
						  article that legally bind the authorizing entity.
"Primary Residence" means the property an individual
						  uses as a residence the majority of the time during the year or as the
						  principal place of abode of the individual's family members. The primary
						  residence may be documented by the address listed on the individual's federal
						  and state tax returns, driver's license, automobile registration, or voter
						  registration card.
"Proceeds" means monies generated as a result of an
						  auction or from sales from the Allowance Price Containment Reserve.
"Process" means the intentional or unintentional
						  reactions between substances or their transformation, including the chemical or
						  electrolytic reduction of metal ores, the thermal decomposition of substances,
						  and the formation of substances for use as product or feedstock.
"Process Emissions" means the emissions from industrial
						  processes (e.g., cement production, ammonia production) involving chemical or
						  physical transformations other than fuel combustion. For example, the
						  calcination of carbonates in a kiln during cement production or the oxidation
						  of methane in an ammonia process results in the release of process
						  CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions from fuel
						  combustion to provide process heat are not part of process emissions, whether
						  the combustion is internal or external to the process equipment.
"Process Unit" means the equipment assembled and
						  connected by pipes and ducts to process raw materials and to manufacture either
						  a final or intermediate product used in the onsite production of other
						  products. The process unit also includes the purification of recovered
						  byproducts.
"Producer" means a person who owns leases, operates,
						  controls, or supervises a California production facility.
"Product Data Verification Statement" means the final
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting
						  entity's product data in their covered emissions data report is free of
						  material misstatement, and whether the product data conforms to the
						  requirements of the MRR. For purposes of this definition, 'material
						  misstatement' shall have the same meaning as ascribed to it in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Professional Judgment" means the ability to render
						  sound decisions based on professional qualifications and relevant greenhouse
						  gas accounting and auditing experience.
"Program for Recognition of Early Action Offset
						  Credits" means a former program for issuing ARB offset credits to early action
						  offset projects that has ended, but was previously found in subarticle 14 of
						  the Cap-and Trade Regulation as amended effective November 1, 2015. The program
						  included recognition of early action offset credits for the following early
						  action quantification methodologies:
* Climate Action Reserve U.S. Livestock Project
						  Protocol versions 1.0 through 3.0;
* Climate Action Reserve Urban Forest Project Protocol
						  versions 1.0 through 1.1;
* Climate Action Reserve U.S. Ozone Depleting
						  Substances Project Protocol version 1.0;
* Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocol
						  versions 2.1 and 3.0 through 3.2, if the early action offset project
						  contributes early action offset credits into a buffer account based on its
						  reversal risk calculated according to the most recent version of the Compliance
						  Offset Protocol in section
						  95973(a)(2)(C)4;
* Climate Action Reserve Coal Mine Methane Project
						  Protocol versions 1.0 and 1.1;
* Verified Carbon Standard VMR0001 Revisions to ACM0008
						  to Include Pre-drainage of Methane from an Active Open Cast Mine as a Methane
						  Emission Reduction Activity Methodology, v1.0;
* Verified Carbon Standard VMR0002 Revisions to ACM0008
						  to Include Methane Capture and Destruction from Abandoned Coal Mines
						  Methodology, v1.0; or
* American Carbon Registry Voluntary Emission
						  Reductions in Rice Management Systems Parent Methodology, version 1.0;
* American Carbon Registry Voluntary Emission
						  Reductions in Rice Management Systems -- California Module, version 1.0;
						  and
* American Carbon Registry Voluntary Emission
						  Reductions in Rice Management Systems -- Mid-South Module, version 1.0.
"Project Area" means the property associated with the
						  geographic boundaries of a forest project, as defined following the
						  requirements of the relevant protocol from section
						  95973(a)(2)(C)4.
"Project Baseline" means, in the context of a specific
						  offset project, a conservative estimate of business-as-usual GHG emission
						  reductions or GHG removal enhancements for the offset project's GHG emission
						  sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs within the offset project
						  boundary.
"Project Emissions" means any GHG emissions associated
						  with the implementation of an offset project that must be accounted for in the
						  Offset Project Data Report.
"Proof Gallons" means one liquid gallon of distilled
						  spirits that is 50% alcohol at 60 degrees F.
"Propane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular
						  formula C3H8.
"Property Right" means any type of right to specific
						  property whether it is personal or real property, tangible or
						  intangible.
"Protein meal and fat" means meal, feather meal, and
						  fat rendered product from poultry tissues including meat, viscera, bone, blood,
						  and feathers.
"Public Service Facility" means: a facility that is a
						  covered entity or opt-in covered entity owned by a local government as defined
						  in Government Code section
						  53720(a)
						  that provides steam or chilled water to buildings and facilities owned by the
						  local government, and may also provide steam or electricity to other buildings
						  or to an electrical distribution utility other than the local government; or a
						  covered entity that provides steam or chilled water to a publicly owned
						  university that is an educational facility pursuant to Education Code section
						  94110(e).
						  Facilities operated by electrical distribution utilities are excluded from this
						  definition.
"Public Utility Gas Corporation" is a gas corporation
						  defined in California Public Utilities Code section
						  222
						  that is also a public utility as defined in California Public Utilities Code
						  section
						  216.
"Publicly Owned Natural Gas Utility" means a
						  municipality or municipal corporation, a municipal utility district, a public
						  utility district, or a joint powers authority that includes one or more of
						  these agencies that furnishes natural gas services to end users.
"Public Wholesale Water Agency" means a covered entity
						  that is owned and operated as a special district, as defined in Statutes of
						  1960, Ch. 209 (California Water Code appendix §
																109), that uses electricity to
						  convey wholesale water supplies and has a compliance obligation during the
						  period 2013 to 2030.
"Purchase Limit" means the maximum percentage of
						  allowances that may be purchased by an entity of a group of affiliated entities
						  at an allowance auction.
"Purchasing-Selling Entity" or "PSE" means the same
						  meaning as ascribed in MRR.
"Qualified Positive Emissions Data Verification
						  Statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and is in conformance with section
						  95131(b)(9) of
						  MRR, but the emissions data may include one or more other nonconformance(s)
						  with requirements of MRR which do not result in a material misstatement. For
						  purposes of this definition, 'material misstatement' shall have the same
						  meaning as ascribed to it in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Qualified Positive Offset Verification Statement"
						  means an Offset Verification Statement rendered by a verification body
						  attesting that the verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the
						  submitted Offset Project Data Report is free of an offset material
						  misstatement, but the Offset Project Data Report may include one or more
						  nonconformance(s) with this article and applicable Compliance Offset Protocol
						  which do not result in an offset material misstatement. Nonconformance, in this
						  context, does not include disregarding the explicit requirements of this
						  article or applicable Compliance Offset Protocol and substituting alternative
						  requirements not approved by the Board.
"Qualified Positive Product Data Verification
						  Statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and is in conformance with section
						  95131(b)(9) of
						  MRR, but the product data may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with
						  the requirements of MRR which do not result in a material misstatement.
"Qualified Thermal Output" means the thermal energy
						  generated by a cogeneration unit or district heating facility that is sold to
						  particular end-users and reported pursuant to MRR section
						  95112(a)(5)(A)
						  and the thermal energy used on-site by industrial processes or operations and
						  heating and cooling operations that is not in support of or a part of the
						  electricity generation or cogeneration system and is reported pursuant to MRR
						  sections 95112(a)(5)(C).
						  Qualified thermal output does not include thermal energy that is vented,
						  radiated, wasted, or discharged before it is utilized at industrial processes
						  or operations, or for a facility with a cogeneration unit, any thermal energy
						  generated by equipment that is not an integral part of the cogeneration
						  unit.
"Quantifiable" means, in the context of offset
						  projects, the ability to accurately measure and calculate GHG reductions or GHG
						  removal enhancements relative to a project baseline in a reliable and
						  replicable manner for all GHG emission sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs
						  included within the offset project boundary, while accounting for uncertainty
						  and activity-shifting leakage and market-shifting leakage.
"Quantitative Usage Limit" means a limit on the
						  percentage of an entity's compliance obligation that may be met by surrendering
						  offset credits, sector-based credits, or other compliance instruments
						  designated to be subject to the limit under this article.
"Rack" means a mechanism for delivering motor vehicle
						  fuel or diesel from a refinery or terminal into a truck, trailer, railroad car,
						  or other means of non-bulk transfer.
"Radiative Forcing" means the change in the net
						  vertical irradiance at the atmospheric boundary between the troposphere and the
						  stratosphere due to an internal change or a change in the external forcing of
						  the climate system such as a change in the concentration of carbon dioxide or
						  the output of the Sun.
"Raw TSS" means the average annual percent tomato
						  soluble solids of raw tomatoes to be processed in a tomato processing
						  facility.
"Real" means, in the context of offset projects, that
						  GHG reductions or GHG enhancements result from a demonstrable action or set of
						  actions, and are quantified using appropriate, accurate, and conservative
						  methodologies that account for all GHG emissions sources, GHG sinks, and GHG
						  reservoirs within the offset project boundary and account for uncertainty and
						  the potential for activity-shifting leakage and market-shifting leakage.
"Reasonable Assurance" means a high degree of
						  confidence that submitted data and statements are valid.
"Recycled Boxboard" means containers of solid fiber
						  made from recycled fibers, including cereal boxes, shoe boxes, and protective
						  paper packaging for dry foods. It also includes folding paper cartons, set-up
						  boxes, and similar boxboard products. Recycled boxboard is made from recycled
						  fibers.
"Recycled Linerboard" means types of paperboard made
						  from recycled fibers that meet specific tests adopted by the packaging industry
						  to qualify for use as the outer facing layer for corrugated board, from which
						  shipping containers are made.
"Recycled Medium" means the center segment of
						  corrugated shipping containers, being faced with linerboard on both sides.
						  Recycled medium is made from recycled fibers.
"Reference Level" means the quantity of GHG emission
						  equivalents that have occurred during the normal course of business or
						  activities during a designated period of time within the boundaries of a
						  defined sector and a defined jurisdiction.
"Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate
						  Blending" or "RBOB" has the same meaning as defined in title 13 of the
						  California Code of Regulations, section
						  2260(a).
"Register," in the context of a compliance instrument,
						  means the act of assigning the serial number of a compliance instrument into an
						  account.
"Registrant" or "Registered Entity" means an entity
						  that has completed the process for registration.
"Registry Offset Credit" means a credit issued by an
						  Offset Project Registry for a GHG reduction or GHG removal enhancement of one
						  metric ton of CO2e. The GHG reduction or GHG removal
						  enhancement must be real, additional, quantifiable, permanent, verifiable, and
						  enforceable and may only be issued for offset projects using Compliance Offset
						  Protocols. Pursuant to section
						  95981.1, ARB may determine that a
						  registry offset credit may be removed, retired, or cancelled from the Offset
						  Project Registry system and issued as an ARB offset credit.
"Registry Services" means all services provided by an
						  ARB approved Offset Project Registry in section
						  95987.
"Regulatory Compliance" means fulfilling all local,
						  regional, state, and national environmental and health and safety laws and
						  regulations that apply based on the offset project location and that directly
						  apply to the offset project, including as specified in a Compliance Offset
						  Protocol.
"Renewable diesel" means a motor vehicle fuel or fuel
						  additive that is all of the following: registered as a motor vehicle fuel or
						  fuel additive under 40 CFR Part 79 ; not a mono-alkyl ester; intended for use
						  in engines that are designed to run on conventional diesel fuel; and derived
						  from nonpetroleum renewable resources.
"Renewable Energy" means energy from sources that
						  constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible.
						  Renewable energy includes energy derived from solar, wind, geothermal,
						  hydroelectric, wood, biomass, tidal power, sea currents, and ocean thermal
						  gradients.
"Renewable Energy Credit" or "REC" has the same meaning
						  as defined in the California Energy Commission's "Renewables Portfolio Standard
						  Eligibility," 9th edition, Commission Guidebook, pp.
						  85-86. January, 2017; CEC-300-2016-ED9-CMF-REV, which is hereby incorporated by
						  reference.
"Renewable Liquid Fuels" means fuel ethanol,
						  biomass-based diesel fuel, other renewable diesel fuel and other renewable
						  fuels.
"Reporting Period" means, in the context of offsets,
						  the period of time for which an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project
						  Designee quantifies and reports GHG reductions or GHG removal enhancements
						  covered in an Offset Project Data Report. An offset project's Reporting Period
						  is established in the project listing documentation, but may be modified by
						  notifying ARB and the OPR (if applicable) in writing or by providing updated
						  listing information with the submittal of the Offset Project Data Report.
						  Modifications to the Reporting Period are only allowed if ARB and the OPR (if
						  applicable) are notified prior to any deadlines being missed. The first
						  reporting period for an offset project in an initial crediting period may
						  consist of 6 to 24 consecutive months; all subsequent reporting periods in an
						  initial crediting period and all reporting periods in any renewed crediting
						  period must consist of 12 consecutive months, with the following
						  exception:
1) Offset projects that
						submitted a first reporting period in the initial crediting period that was
						less than 24 consecutive months may include any months not included in the
						first reporting period in the final reporting period of the initial crediting
						period, such that the combined duration of the initial and final reporting
						periods in the initial crediting period do not exceed 36 months total;
						and
2) Offset projects using a
						Compliance Offset Protocol in section
						95973(a)(2)(C)2
						may have one reporting period less than 12 consecutive months to allow the
						project to transition to a Low Carbon Fuel Standard pathway. For offset
						projects developed using the Compliance Offset Protocol in section
						95973(a)(2)(C)1.,
						there may only be one Reporting Period per offset project. The Reporting Period
						may not be longer than 12 months and there is no minimum timeframe imposed for
						the Reporting Period. For offset projects developed using the compliance offset
						protocol in section
						95973(a)(2)(C)6.,
						the Reporting Period is approximately 12 months; it may be less than or exceed
						12 months.
"Reporting Year" means data year.
"Request for Issuance" refers to a request submitted by
						  an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee to ARB seeking
						  issuance of ARB offset credits based on an Offset Project Data Report, pursuant
						  to the requirements of sections
						  95981 and
						  95981.1. A Request for Issuance
						  must include the attestations required pursuant to this article.
"Reserve Allowance" means the allowances directly
						  allocated to the Allowance Price Containment Reserve pursuant to sections
						  95870(a) and
						  95871(a), or
						  non-vintaged allowances issued by an External Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading
						  System to which California has linked its Cap-and-Trade Program pursuant to
						  subarticle 12, allocated to a reserve account.
"Reserve Price" see "Auction Reserve Price." "Reserve
						  Sale Administrator" means the operator of sales from the Allowance Price
						  Containment Reserve account, which may be the Executive Officer or an entity
						  designated by the Executive Officer.
"Resource Shuffling" means any plan, scheme, or
						  artifice undertaken by a First Deliverer of Electricity to substitute
						  electricity deliveries from sources with relatively lower emissions for
						  electricity deliveries from sources with relatively higher emissions to reduce
						  its emissions compliance obligation. Resource shuffling does not include
						  substitution of electricity deliveries from sources with relatively lower
						  emissions for electricity deliveries from sources with relatively higher
						  emissions resources when the substitution occurs pursuant to the conditions
						  listed in section
						  95852(b)(2)(A).
"Retail Provider" means an entity that provides
						  electricity to retail end users in California and is an electrical corporation
						  as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  218,
						  electric service provider as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  218.3,
						  local publicly owned electric utility as defined in Public Utilities Code
						  section
						  224.3,
						  a community choice aggregator as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  331.1,
						  or the Western Area Power Administration. For purposes of this article,
						  electrical cooperatives, as defined by Public Utilities Code section
						  2776,
						  are excluded.
"Retire" or "Retired" or "Retirement" means that the
						  serial number for a compliance instrument is registered into the Retirement
						  Account under the control of the Executive Officer. Compliance instruments
						  registered into this account cannot be removed.
"Reversal" means a GHG emission reduction or GHG
						  removal enhancement for which an ARB offset credit or registry offset credit
						  has been issued that is subsequently released or emitted back into the
						  atmosphere, or that is later determined to have never occurred. A reversal is
						  either intentional or unintentional.
"Salt" means sodium chloride, determined as chloride
						  and calculated as percent sodium chloride, by the method prescribed in
						  "Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical
						  Chemists," 13th Ed., 1980, sections
						  32.025 to
						  32.030, under the heading "Method
						  III (Potentiometric Method)."
"Seamless rolled ring" means a metal product
						  manufactured by punching a hole in a thick, round piece of metal, and then
						  rolling and squeezing (or in some cases, pounding) it into a thin ring. Ring
						  diameters can be anywhere from a few inches to 30 feet.
"Sector" or "Sectoral," when used in conjunction with
						  sector-based crediting programs, means a group or subgroup of an economic
						  activity, or a group or cross-section of a group of economic activities, within
						  a jurisdiction.
"Sector-Based Crediting Program" is a GHG
						  emissions-reduction crediting mechanism established by a country, region, or
						  subnational jurisdiction in a developing country and covering a particular
						  economic sector within that jurisdiction. A program's performance is based on
						  achievement toward an emissions reduction target for the particular sector
						  within the boundary of the jurisdiction.
"Sector-Based Offset Credit" means a credit issued from
						  a sector-based crediting program once the crediting baseline for a sector has
						  been reached.
"Self-Generation of Electricity" means electricity
						  dedicated to serving an electricity user on the same location as the generator.
						  The system may be operated directly by the electricity user or by an entity
						  with a contractual arrangement.
"Serial Number" means a unique number assigned to each
						  compliance instrument for identification.
"Sequestration" means the removal and storage of carbon
						  from the atmosphere in GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs through physical or
						  biological processes.
"Sink" or "sink to load" or "load sink" means the sink
						  identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined point have been
						  established through the NERC Registry. Exported electricity is disaggregated by
						  the sink on the NREC e-Tag, also referred to as the final point of delivery on
						  the NERC e-Tag.
"Skim milk" means the product that results from the
						  complete or partial removal of milk fat from milk.
"Soda Ash Equivalent" means the total mass of all soda
						  ash, biocarb, Sodium Sulfate, Potassium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, and Sodium
						  Chloride produced. Through December 31, 2017, this definition also includes
						  borax, V-Bor, DECA, PYROBOR, and boric acid.
"Source" means greenhouse gas source; or any physical
						  unit, process, or other use or activity that releases a greenhouse gas into the
						  atmosphere.
"Source of generation" or "generation source" means the
						  generation source identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined
						  points have been established through the NERC Registry. Imported electricity
						  and wheels are disaggregated by the source on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to
						  as the first point of receipt.
"Specified Source of Electricity" or "Specified Source"
						  means a facility or unit which is permitted to be claimed as the source of
						  electricity delivered. The reporting entity must have either full or partial
						  ownership in the facility/unit or a written power contract as defined in MRR
						  section 95102(a) to
						  procure electricity generated by that facility/unit. Specified facilities/units
						  include cogeneration systems. Specified source also means electricity procured
						  from an asset-controlling supplier recognized by ARB.
"Stand-Alone-Electricity Generating Facility" has the
						  same meaning in this regulation as in section
						  95102(a) of
						  MRR.
"Stationary" means neither portable nor self-propelled,
						  and operated at a single facility.
"Steel Produced Using an Electric Arc Furnace" means
						  steel produced by electric arc furnace or "EAF." EAF means a furnace that
						  produces molten steel and heats the charge materials with electric arcs from
						  carbon electrodes.
"Stucco" means hemihydrate plaster
						  (CaSO4·1/2H2O) produced by
						  heating ("calcining") raw gypsum, thereby removing three-quarters of its
						  chemically combined water.
"Sulfuric acid regeneration" means a catalytic process
						  in which spent acid is regenerated to concentrated sulfuric acid. The equipment
						  for this process may include the combustor, waste heat boiler, converter,
						  absorber, SO3 recycle, and gas cleaning including
						  electrostatic precipitator and amine regenerator.
"Supplier" means a producer, importer, exporter,
						  position holder, interstate pipeline operator, or local distribution company of
						  a fossil fuel or an industrial greenhouse gas.
"Terminal" means a motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel
						  storage and distribution facility that is supplied by pipeline or vessel, and
						  from which fuel may be removed at a rack. "Terminal" includes a fuel production
						  facility where motor vehicle or diesel fuel is produced and stored and from
						  which fuel may be removed at a rack.
"Testliner" means types of paperboard that meet
						  specific tests adopted by the packaging industry to qualify for use as the
						  outer facing layer for corrugated board, from which shipping containers are
						  made. Testliner is made primarily from fibers obtained from recycled
						  fibers.
"Thermal enhanced oil recovery" or "thermal EOR" means
						  the process of using injected steam to increase the recovery of crude oil from
						  a reservoir.
"Tin Plate" means thin sheet steel with a very thin
						  coating of metallic tin. Tin plate also includes Tin Free Steel or TFS which
						  has an extremely thin coating of metallic chromium and chromium oxide. Tin
						  plate is used primarily in can making.
"Tomato Juice" is the liquid obtained from mature
						  tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit
Lycopersicum
						  esculentum
P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. Tomato juice may
						  contain salt, lemon juice, sodium bicarbonate, water, spices and/or flavoring.
						  This food shall contain not less than 4.0 percent by weight tomato soluble
						  solids.
"Tomato Paste" is the food prepared from mature
						  tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit
Lycopersicum
						  esculentum
P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. Tomato paste is
						  prepared by concentrating tomato ingredients until the food contains not less
						  than 24.0 percent tomato soluble solids.
"Tomato puree" is the semisolid food prepared from
						  mature tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit
Lycopersicum esculentum
P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties.
						  Tomato puree is prepared by concentrating tomato ingredients until the food
						  contains not less than 8.0 percent but less than 24.0 percent tomato soluble
						  solids.
"Tomato soluble solids" (TSS or NTSS) means the sucrose
						  value of raw tomatoes or tomato product. For raw tomatoes, this value shall be
						  determined by the methods prescribed in "Inspection Procedures" (2014) for
						  Soluble Solids Testing -- Digital Refractometer, as published by the Processing
						  Tomato Advisory Board (PTAB), which is hereby incorporated by reference. For
						  the tomato products tomato juice, tomato paste, tomato puree, and whole and
						  diced tomatoes, this value shall be determined by the method prescribed in
						  "Inspection Procedures" (2014) for Soluble Solids Testing -- Digital
						  Refractometer, as published by PTAB, or the "Official Methods of Analysis of
						  the Association of Official Analytical Chemists," 13th Ed., 1980, sections
						  32.014 to
						  32.016 and
						  52.012 (AOAC, 1980), depending on
						  availability. For instances in which no salt has been added, the sucrose value
						  obtained from the referenced tables shall be considered the percent of tomato
						  soluble solids. If salt has been added either intentionally or through the
						  application of the acidified break, determine the percent of such added sodium
						  chloride as specified in the regulation's definition of salt. Subtract the
						  percentage sodium chloride from the percentage of total soluble solids found
						  (sucrose value from the refractive index tables) and multiply the difference by
						  1.016. The resultant value is considered the percent of "tomato soluble
						  solids." The centrifuges, centrifuge spin rate, centrifuge spin time, and other
						  lab measurement equipment specified in AOAC (1980) may be exchanged with more
						  modern equipment and measurement procedures where the operator deems necessary.
						  Tomato soluble solids must be rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent of
						  solids.
"Tracking System" means the Compliance Instrument
						  Tracking System Service where ARB compliance instruments are issued, traded,
						  and retired.
"Transaction," when referring to an arrangement between
						  registered entities regarding compliance instruments, means an understanding
						  among registered entities to transfer the control of a compliance instrument
						  from one entity to another, either immediately or at a later date.
"Transfer" of a compliance instrument means the removal
						  of a compliance instrument from one account and placement into another
						  account.
"Transfer Request" means the communication by an
						  authorized account representative or an alternate authorized account
						  representative to the accounts administrator to register into the tracking
						  system the transfer of allowances between accounts.
"Transferred ARB Project" means an offset project which
						  has been transferred from ARB or one Offset Project Registry, where it was
						  previously listed, to ARB or another Offset Project Registry. The entity to
						  which the offset project is transferred will indicate the applicable offset
						  project status from the following list: "Proposed Project," "Active ARB
						  Project," "Active Registry Project," "Proposed Renewal," "Active ARB Renewal,"
						  and "Active Registry Renewal."
"Tribe" means a federally-recognized Indian tribe and
						  any entity created by a federally-recognized Indian Tribe.
"True-up allowance amount" is a quantity of California
						  GHG allowances allocated for changes in production or allocation not properly
						  accounted for in prior allocations pursuant to 95891(b), 95891(c),
						  95891(c)(2)(B), 95891(f)(1), or 95894(c)-(e).
"Ultrafiltered milk" means raw or pasteurized milk or
						  nonfat milk that is passed over one or more semipermeable membranes to
						  partially remove water, lactose, minerals, and water-soluble vitamins without
						  altering the casein-to-whey protein ratio of the milk or nonfat milk and
						  resulting in a liquid product.
"Unintentional Reversal" means any reversal, including
						  wildfires or disease that is not the result of the forest owner's negligence,
						  gross negligence, or willful intent. Only trees identified as dead or dying, in
						  the post-event inventory, as a result of the wildfire or disease will be
						  removed from the project's inventory and compensated from the Forest Buffer
						  Account minus any salvage harvest accounted for under long-term storage.
"University Covered Entity" means a facility that meets
						  the definition of an educational facility pursuant to Education Code section
						  94110(e)
						  and is either a covered entity, or opt-in covered entity as of January 1,
						  2015.
"Unspecified Source of Electricity" or "Unspecified
						  Source" means a source of electricity that is not a specified source at the
						  time of entry into the transaction to procure the electricity.
"Urban Forest Offset Project" means an offset project
						  that uses or has used either the offset protocols identified in section
						  97973(a)(2)(C)3.
						  or one of the Climate Action Reserve Urban Forest Project Protocols identified
						  as offset quantification methodologies in the definition of the Program for
						  Recognition of Early Action Offset Credits in section
						  95802(a).
"Vented Emissions" means intentional or designed
						  releases of CH4 or CO2 containing
						  natural gas or hydrocarbon gas (not including stationary combustion flue gas),
						  including process designed flow to the atmosphere through seals or vent pipes,
						  equipment blowdown for maintenance, and direct venting of gas used to power
						  equipment (such as pneumatic devices).
"Verifiable" means that an Offset Project Data Report
						  assertion is well documented and transparent such that it lends itself to an
						  objective review by an accredited verification body.
"Verification Body" means a firm accredited by ARB,
						  which is able to render an offset verification statement and provide offset
						  verification services for Offset Project Operators or Authorized Project
						  Designees subject to providing an Offset Project Data Report under this
						  article.
"Verifier" or "offset verifier" means an individual
						  accredited by ARB to carry out offset verification services as specified in
						  sections 95977.1 and
						  95977.2.
"Vintage Year" means the budget year to which an
						  individual Californian GHG allowance is assigned pursuant to subarticle
						  6.
"Volumetric," with respect to sections
						  95892 and
						  95893, describes an electrical
						  distribution utility's or natural gas supplier's direct distribution of
						  allocated allowance auction proceeds to one or more of its ratepayers based on
						  the current or recent amount of electricity, natural gas, or other relevant
						  utility service delivered to those ratepayers, such that higher usage results
						  in ratepayers' receipt of more funds.
"Voluntarily Associated Entity" or "General Market
						  Participant" means any entity which does not meet the requirements of section
						  95811 or
						  95813 in this article and that
						  intends to purchase, hold, sell, or voluntarily retire compliance instruments
						  or an entity operating an offset project or early action offset project that is
						  registered with ARB pursuant to subarticle 13 or 14 in this article.
"Voluntary Renewable Electricity" or "VRE" means
						  electricity produced or RECs associated with electricity, produced by a
						  voluntary renewable electricity generator, and which has not and will not be
						  sold or used to meet any other mandatory requirements in California or any
						  other jurisdiction.
"Voluntary Renewable Electricity Participant" or "VRE
						  Participant" means a voluntary renewable electricity generator, a REC marketer,
						  or entity that purchases voluntary renewable electricity or RECs as an end-user
						  or on behalf of an end-user and is seeking allowance retirement pursuant to
						  section 95841.1.
"Waste gas" means a natural gas that contains a greater
						  percentage of gaseous chemical impurities than the percentage of methane. For
						  purposes of this definition, gaseous chemical impurities may include carbon
						  dioxide, nitrogen, helium, or hydrogen sulfide.
"Waste-to-Energy Facility" means a facility located in
						  California that combusts eligible municipal solid waste. The facility must
						  operate in accordance with a current permit issued by the local Air Pollution
						  Control District or Air Quality Management District to generate and distribute
						  electricity over the electric power grid for wholesale or retail customers of
						  the grid located in California.
"Whey protein concentrate" means the substance obtained
						  by the removal of sufficient nonprotein constituents from pasteurized whey so
						  that the finished dry product contains greater than 25% protein. Whey protein
						  concentrate is produced by physical separation techniques such as
						  precipitation, filtration, or dialysis. The acidity of whey protein concentrate
						  may be adjusted by the addition of safe and suitable pH-adjusting
						  ingredients.
"Whole chicken and chicken parts" means whole chicken
						  or edible chicken parts (including breasts, thighs, wings, and drums) that are
						  packaged for wholesale or retail sale; transferred to other facilities; or
						  binned, sent to an on-site rendering plant, and rendered into protein meal and
						  fat.
"Whole Tomatoes" is the food prepared from mature
						  tomatoes conforming to the characteristics of the fruit
Lycopersicum
						  esculentum
P. Mill, of red or reddish varieties. The tomatoes are kept
						  whole, and shall have had the stems and calyces
						  removed.