California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 4 - Regulations to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions › Subarticle 9 - Energy Efficiency and CO-Benefits Assessment of Large Industrial Facilities › Section 95603 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For the
						purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:
(1) "ARB" means the California Air Resources
						Board.
(2) "Assessment Report" or
						"report" means the report of the facility energy consumption and emissions
						analysis and energy efficiency improvement analysis prepared by an operator or
						third party entity and submitted to ARB pursuant to sections
						95604 and
						95605.
(3) "Average recurring annual budgetary cost"
						means the expected annual budgetary cost associated with implementing an energy
						efficiency improvement project, averaged over the project life. The annual cost
						must include, but is not limited to, operation and maintenance of the energy
						efficiency improvement project.
(4)
						"British Thermal Unit" or "Btu" means the quantity of heat required to raise
						the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit at about 39.2
						degrees Fahrenheit.
(5) "Budgetary
						cost estimate" means a cost estimate that is used for project comparison
						purposes, but does not require detailed engineering and therefore has a
						correspondingly lower accuracy.
(6)
						"Calendar year" means the time period from January 1 through December
						31.
(7) "California Environmental
						Quality Act" or "CEQA" means California Public Resources Code Sections
						21000
						et seq.
(8) "Carbon dioxide" or
						"CO2" means the most common of the six primary
						greenhouse gases, consisting on a molecular level of a single carbon atom and
						two oxygen atoms.
(9) "Carbon
						dioxide equivalent" or "CO2 equivalent" or
						"CO2e" means a measure for comparing carbon dioxide with
						other GHGs, based on the quantity of those gases multiplied by the appropriate
						global warming potential (GWP) factor and commonly expressed as metric tonnes
						of carbon dioxide equivalents (MTCO2e).
(10) "Cement plant" means an industrial
						structure, installation, plant, or building primarily engaged in manufacturing
						Portland, natural, masonry, pozzolanic, and other hydraulic cements, and
						typically identified by NAICS code 327310.
(11) "Clinker" means the mass of fused
						material produced in a cement kiln from which finished cement is manufactured
						by milling and grinding.
(12)
						"Combined cycle electricity generating facility" means an electricity
						generating facility that uses the waste heat from a gas turbine to provide heat
						energy for a steam turbine.
(13)
						"Criteria air pollutant" means substances identified in title 17, California
						Code of Regulations, Section
						70200. Examples include carbon
						monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter with aerodynamic
						diameters of 10 microns or less (PM10) and PM 2.5.
(14) "Distillate fuel oil" means a general
						classification for a petroleum fraction produced in conventional distillation
						operations. It includes diesel fuels and fuel oils.
(15) "District" has the same meaning as
						defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Section
						39025.
(16) "Electricity generating facility" means
						a facility that generates electricity and includes one or more generating units
						at the same location.
(17)
						"Emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, or
						toxic air contaminants into the atmosphere from sources and processes in a
						facility.
(18) "Emissions data
						report" or "greenhouse gas emissions data report" means the report prepared by
						an operator each year and submitted by electronic means to ARB that provides
						the information required by the Regulation for the Mandatory Reporting of
						Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Subchapter 10, Article 2, sections
						95100 to
						95133, title 17, California Code
						of Regulations.
(19) "Energy" means
						any source of usable heat or power, such as fuel or electricity.
(20) "Energy efficiency" means a measure of
						the relative quantity of energy required to accomplish a task with the minimum
						energy expenditure.
(21) "Energy
						efficiency assessment" means an assessment as specified in section
						95604.
(22) "Energy efficiency improvement project"
						means an undertaking involving such activities including, but not limited to,
						improvement in maintenance or other practices, monitoring systems, specific
						processes, or new or improved technologies, in order to increase energy
						efficiency at a facility.
(23)
						"Entity" means a person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business
						trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, or government
						agency.
(24) "Equipment" means any
						stationary article, machine, or other contrivance, or combination thereof, used
						for specific purposes within a facility; equipment does not mean portable
						equipment, tactical support equipment, mobile vehicles, or generating units
						designated as backup or emergency generators in a permit issued by
						District.
(25) "Executive Officer"
						means the Executive Officer of the ARB or his or her delegate.
(26) "Facility" means any property, plant,
						building, structure, stationary source, stationary equipment or grouping of
						stationary equipment or stationary sources 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 operational control,
						that emits or may emit any greenhouse gases.
(27) "Fluorine" means the most reactive
						nonmetallic element, generally designated with the symbol "F" and with an
						atomic weight of 18.9984.
(28)
						"Fuel" means solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible material used to create heat
						or power.
(29) "Global warming
						potential" or "GWP factor" means the radiative forcing impact of one mass-based
						unit of a given greenhouse gas relative to an equivalent unit of carbon dioxide
						over a given period of time.
(30)
						"Greenhouse gas" or "greenhouse gases" or "GHG" means carbon dioxide
						(CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous
						oxide (N20), sulfur hexafluoride
						(SF6), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs),
						and perfluorocarbons (PFCs).
(31) "Greenhouse gas source" means any
						physical unit, process, or other use or activity that emits a greenhouse
						gas.
(32) "Hydrocarbons" means
						chemical compounds containing predominantly carbon and hydrogen.
(33) "Hydrofluorocarbons" or "HFCs" means a
						class of GHGs primarily used as refrigerants, consisting of hydrogen, fluorine,
						and carbon.
(34) "Hydrogen" means
						the lightest of all elements, designated by the symbol "H" and with an atomic
						weight of 1.00797; commonly exists as a gas consisting on the molecular level
						of two hydrogen atoms.
(35)
						"Kerosene" means a light distillate fuel that includes No.1-K and No. 2-K as
						well as other grades of range or stove oil that have properties similar to
						those of No. 1 fuel oil.
(36)
						"Kiln" means a device, including any associated preheater or precalciner device
						that produce clinker by heating limestone and other materials for subsequent
						production of Portland or other cement.
(37) "Kilowatt hour" or "kWh" means the
						electrical energy unit of measure equal to one thousand watts of power supplied
						to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour. (A watt is a unit
						of electrical power equal to one ampere under pressure of one volt, or 1/746
						horsepower.)
(38) "Methane" or
						"CH4" means a colorless, odorless, flammable gas
						consisting on the molecular level of a single carbon atom and four hydrogen
						atoms.
(39) "Metric tonne" or "MT"
						or "tonne" means a common international measurement for the quantity of GHG
						emissions, equivalent to about 2204.6 pounds or 1.1 short tons.
(40) "Mobile combustion source" means a
						source of emissions resulting from combustion by a vehicle or other
						non-stationary, self-propelled combustion sources that produces greenhouse gas,
						criteria air pollutant, and toxic air contaminant emissions. Mobile combustion
						sources include, but are not limited to, passenger cars, large/heavy duty truck
						cabs and chassis, light and medium duty trucks and vans, motorcycles, public
						transit buses, military tanks or other tracked military vehicles, mobile
						cranes, bulldozers, concrete mixers, street cleaners, golf carts, all terrain
						vehicles, trains, airplanes, boats, ships, implements of husbandry, and hauling
						equipment used inside and around airports, docks, depots, and industrial and
						commercial plants.
(41) "MMBtu"
						means million British thermal units. MMBtu = MWhr x 3.412.
(42) "MWhr" means megawatt hours; equal to
						one million watt hours.
(43)
						"Nitrous oxide" or "N20" means a GHG consisting at the
						molecular level of two nitrogen atoms and a single oxygen atom.
(44) "No. 1 fuel oil" means a light petroleum
						distillate fuel oil that meets the specifications of ASTM Specification
						D396-07.
(45) "North American
						Industry Classification System" or "NAICS" means a standard for use by Federal
						statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the collection,
						analysis, and publication of statistical data related to the business economy
						of the United States.
(46)
						"Operational control" 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 District is considered to have operational control for
						purposes of this regulation.
(47)
						"Operator" means the entity having operational control of a facility, or other
						entity, from which an Assessment Report is required under this
						regulation.
(48) "Outside source"
						means a source of electricity not contained within a facility.
(49) "Oxides of nitrogen or NOx" means
						compounds of nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and other oxides of
						nitrogen, which are typically created during combustion processes and are major
						contributors to smog formation and acid deposition.
(50) "Perfluorocarbons" or "PFCs" means a
						class of greenhouse gases consisting on the molecular level of carbon and
						fluorine.
(51) "Petroleum" means an
						oily, thick, flammable liquid that is a mixture of various hydrocarbons
						occurring naturally within the earth and includes oil derived from tar sands,
						shale, and coal.
(52) "Petroleum
						refinery" or "refinery" means any facility engaged in producing gasoline,
						aromatics, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or
						other products through distillation of petroleum or through redistillation,
						cracking, rearrangement, or reforming of unfinished petroleum
						derivatives.
(53) "Portable" is as
						defined in title 17, California Code of Regulations, section
						93116.2(a)(28).
(54) "Portland cement" means hydraulic cement
						(cement that not only hardens by reacting with water but also forms a
						water-resistant product) produced by pulverizing clinkers consisting
						essentially of hydraulic calcium silicates, usually containing one or more of
						the forms of calcium sulfate as an inter-ground addition.
(55) "Process" means an action or series of
						actions performed in progressive and interdependent steps by equipment within a
						facility to produce or aid in producing a product such as cement, fuel,
						electricity, hydrogen, or other chemicals.
(56) "Process flow diagram" means a schematic
						representation of a facility which identifies the processes or systems within
						the facility and any interaction between the processes or systems such as
						transfer of material or energy from one process or system to another.
(57) "Project life" means the length of time
						an energy efficiency improvement project is expected to be employed.
(58) "Reactive Organic Gas" means a
						photochemically reactive chemical gas, composed of non-methane hydrocarbons,
						that may contribute to the formation of smog.
(59) "Residual fuel oil" means a general
						classification for the heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that
						remain after the distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled
						away in refinery operations.
(60)
						"Source" means a piece of equipment, process or facility that emits greenhouse
						gases, criteria air pollutants or toxic air contaminants.
(61) "Sulfur hexafluoride" or
						"SF6" means a GHG consisting on the molecular level of a
						single sulfur atom and six fluorine atoms.
(62) "System" means a group of interacting,
						interrelated, or interdependent processes within a facility.
(63) "Tactical support equipment" means
						equipment using a portable engine, including turbines, that meets military
						specifications, owned by the U.S. Department of Defense and/or the U.S.
						military services or its allies, and used in combat, combat support, combat
						service support, tactical or relief operations, or training for such
						operations. Examples include, but are not limited to, engines associated with
						portable generators, aircraft start carts, heaters and lighting
						carts.
(64) "Third party" means an
						entity hired by, but not otherwise affiliated with, a facility to conduct the
						facility's "energy efficiency assessment" as defined and/or develop the
						facility Assessment Report.
(65)
						"Ton" means a short ton equal to 2,000 pounds.
(66) "Toxic air contaminant" means a
						substance identified by the Air Resources Board as a toxic air contaminant
						pursuant to H&SC Section
						39657.
(67) "Transportation fuel" means a fuel
						produced in a petroleum refinery to be sold into commerce for transportation
						purposes.
(68) "Watt hour" means a
						unit of energy, especially electrical energy, equal to the work done by one
						watt acting for one hour.