California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 5 - Standards for Motor Vehicle Fuels › Article 3 - Specifications for Alternative Motor Vehicle Fuels › Subarticle 2 - Commercialization of Alternative Diesel Fuels › Section 2293.2 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For the
					 purposes of this subarticle, the definitions in Health and Safety Code sections
					 39010
					 through
					 39060
					 shall apply, except as otherwise specified in this subarticle. The following
					 definitions shall also apply to this subarticle:
(1) "Alternative Diesel Fuel" or "ADF" means
					 any fuel used in a compression ignition engine that is not petroleum-based,
					 does not consist solely of hydrocarbons, and is not subject to a specification
					 under subarticle 1 of this article.
(2) "Biodiesel" means a fuel comprised of
					 mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or
					 animal fats that is 99-100 percent biodiesel by volume (B100 or B99) and meets
					 the specifications set forth by ASTM International in the latest version of
Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel Blend Stock (B100) for Middle
					 Distillate Fuels
D6751 contained in the ASTM publication entitled:
					 Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section
					 5, as defined in CCR, title 4,
					 section 4140(a).
(3) "Biodiesel Blend" means biodiesel blended
					 with CARB diesel.
(4) "Blend Level"
					 means the ratio of an ADF to the CARB diesel it is blended with, expressed as a
					 percent by volume. The blend level may also be expressed as "AXX," where "A"
					 represents the particular ADF and "XX" represents the percent by volume that
					 ADF is present in the blend with CARB diesel (e.g., a 20 percent by volume
					 biodiesel/CARB diesel blend is denoted as "B20").
(5) "Blendstock" means a component that is
					 either used alone or is blended with another component(s) to produce a finished
					 fuel used in a motor vehicle. A blendstock that is used directly as a
					 transportation fuel in a vehicle is considered a finished fuel.
(6) "B5" means a biodiesel blend containing
					 no more than five percent biodiesel by volume.
(7) "B20" means a biodiesel blend containing
					 more than five and no more than 20 percent biodiesel by volume.
(8) "Candidate ADF" means a fuel that is in
					 the Stage 1 or Stage 2 evaluation process in this subarticle.
(9) "CARB Diesel" means a light or middle
					 distillate fuel that may be comingled with up to five (5) volume percent
					 biodiesel and meets the definition and requirements for "diesel fuel" or
					 "California nonvehicular diesel fuel" as specified in CCR, title 13, division
					 3, chapter 5, article 2 (commencing with section
					 2281). "CARB diesel" may include:
					 renewable hydrocarbon diesel; gas-to-liquid fuels; Fischer-Tropsch diesel;
					 diesel fuel produced from renewable crude; CARB diesel blended with additives
					 specifically formulated to reduce emissions of one or more criteria or toxic
					 air contaminants relative to reference CARB diesel; and CARB diesel
					 specifically formulated to reduce emissions of one or more criteria or toxic
					 air contaminants relative to reference CARB diesel.
(10) "Criteria Pollutant" means any air
					 pollutant for which a California ambient air quality standard (CAAQS) or a
					 national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) has been established.
(10.5) "Designated Equivalent Limits Diesel"
					 means a commercial California diesel fuel or blend of commercial California
					 diesel fuels, produced at a California refinery or refineries, that meets the
					 requirements of
					 13 CCR
					 2282(h) and may contain
					 2-ethyl-hexyl nitrate. Designated Equivalent Limits Diesel does not contain
					 biodiesel or di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP).
(10.6) "Diesel Test Fuel" means a fuel
					 against which alternative diesel fuels are tested for emission-equivalency and
					 certification. Designated Equivalent Limits Diesel and Reference CARB Diesel
					 are Diesel Test Fuels.
(10.7)
					 "Emissions Test Facility" means an independent test facility that conducts
					 dynamometer exhaust emissions testing for certification of alternative diesel
					 fuels or additives resulting in emissions equivalence with diesel.
(11) "Executive Officer" means the Executive
					 Officer of the Air Resources Board, or his or her designee.
(12) "Executive Order" or "EO" means a
					 document signed by the Executive Officer or his or her designee under this
					 subarticle that:
a) provides an exemption
					 from in-use requirements,
b)
					 approves a formulation under the certification procedures as an equivalent CARB
					 diesel formulation, or
c) specifies
					 the stage under which a regulated party(ies) for an ADF or candidate ADF is or
					 will be operating. An Executive Order includes any enforceable terms,
					 conditions, and requirements that the regulated party(ies) must meet in order
					 to sell, offer for sale, or supply that ADF or candidate ADF for use in
					 California.
(13)
					 "Finished Fuel" means a fuel that is used directly in a vehicle for
					 transportation purposes without requiring additional chemical or physical
					 processing.
(14) "Fuel Blender"
					 means any person who blends an ADF with another fuel.
(15) "Hydrocarbon" means any homogeneous
					 mixture with elemental composition primarily of hydrogen and carbon that may
					 contain residual impurities.
(15.5)
					 "Independent Laboratory" means a facility that tests composition and fuel
					 properties for each candidate fuel and each component of each candidate fuel
					 received from the emissions test.
(16) "Importer" has the same meaning as
					 defined in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation at CCR, title 17, section
					 95481(a).
(17) "Multimedia Evaluation" has the same
					 meaning as defined in California Health and Safety Code section
					 43830.8(b).
(18) "New Technology Diesel Engine" or "NTDE"
					 means a diesel engine that meets at least one of the following criteria:
(A) Meets 2010 ARB emission standards for
					 on-road heavy duty diesel engines under section
					 1956.8.
(B) Meets Tier 4 emission standards for
					 non-road compression ignition engines under sections
					 2421,
					 2423,
					 2424,
					 2425,
					 2425.1,
					 2426, and
					 2427.
(C) Is equipped with or employs a Diesel
					 Emissions Control Strategy (DECS), verified by ARB pursuant to CCR, title 13,
					 chapter 14 (commencing with section
					 2700), which uses selective
					 catalytic reduction to control Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx).
(19) "Offsetting Factors" means any factors
					 in the commercial market that serve to offset the emissions of a pollutant from
					 the use of an ADF. Offsetting factors may include, but are not limited to, the
					 use of:
(A) Specific vehicle technologies such
					 as NTDEs that have been proven to reduce emissions of the pollutant;
(B) Fuels that reduce emissions of the
					 pollutant; and
(C) Feedstocks that
					 have been shown to reduce or eliminate increases in the
					 pollutant.
(20) "Person"
					 has the same meaning as defined in California Health and Safety Code section
					 39047
					 and includes, but is not limited to, ADF producers, importers, marketers and
					 blenders. "Person" includes the plural when two or more persons are subject to
					 an executed Executive Order or an interim or final fuel specification issued
					 pursuant to the requirements of this subarticle.
(21) "Pollutant Control Level" means a blend
					 level of an ADF above which per gallon in-use requirements have been
					 established by regulation to ensure there will be no increases in one or more
					 criteria pollutants when compared to emissions from Reference CARB
					 Diesel.
(22) "Potential Adverse
					 Emissions Impacts" means for any given ADF or ADF blend, any criteria pollutant
					 for which testing during a multimedia evaluation results in statistically
					 significant increases of that criteria pollutant above an appropriate baseline
					 for that ADF.
(23) "Producer" has
					 the same meaning as defined in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation at CCR,
					 title 17, section
					 95481(a).
(24) "Reference CARB Diesel" means "reference
					 fuel" as defined in section
					 2282(g)(3).
(25) "Renewable hydrocarbon diesel" means a
					 diesel fuel that is produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources but is not a
					 mono-alkyl ester and which is registered as a motor vehicle fuel or fuel
					 additive under 40 Code of Federal Regulations part 79.
(26) "Toxic Air Contaminant" means any
					 substance identified or designated by the Air Resources Board as a toxic air
					 contaminant pursuant to California Health and Safety Code section
					 39657,
					 or is designated as a hazardous air pollutant under section
					 112 of the federal Clean Air Act
					 (42 U.S.C. §
													7412).
(27) "Trade Secret" has the same meaning as
					 defined in California Government Code section
					 6254.7.