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 3 - Regulation for Reducing Sulfur Hexafluoride Emissions › Section 95342 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For the
						purposes of this Subarticle, the following definitions apply:
(1) "ARB" means the California Air Resources
						Board.
(2) "Arc Quenching Medium"
						means the use of a material to interrupt an electrical arc.
(3) "Cal/OSHA" means the California
						Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and
						Health.
(4) "Chamber Cleaning"
						means the process of using fluorinated gases to remove excess materials from
						chemical vapor deposition chamber walls to prevent contamination of wafers to
						be processed.
(5) "Chemical Vapor
						Deposition (CVD)" means deposition of thin films on wafers by placing the
						wafers in a mixture of gases, including nitrogen or other gas used as a
						carrier, which react at the surface of the wafers.
(6) "Dielectric Medium" means the use of a
						material that does not conduct electricity but can sustain an electric field,
						with electrical conductivity of less than a millionth
						(10-6) of a siemens.
(7) "Distributor" means any person who sells
						or supplies sulfur hexafluoride in California, except that "distributor" does
						not include users who sell to a recycler or persons who return products to the
						seller.
(8) "Etching" means a
						chemical reactive process for selectively removing material on a wafer using
						fluorinated, ionized gases
(9)
						"Equipment Calibration" means the process of establishing the relationship
						between a measuring device and the units of measure. This is done by comparing
						a device or the output of an instrument to a standard having known measurement
						characteristics.
(10) "Executive
						Officer" means the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, or
						his or her delegate.
(11)
						"Greenhouse gas" includes carbon dioxide (CO2), methane
						(CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O),
						sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride
						(NF3), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorocarbons
						(PFCs).
(12) "Investment Casting"
						(also called "precision casting" or the "lost wax process") means the process
						of casting magnesium into a mold produced by surrounding, or investing, an
						expendable pattern with a refractory material.
(13) "Laboratory fume hood" means a boxlike
						structure enclosing a source of potential air contamination, with one open or
						partially open side, into which air is moved for the purpose of containing and
						exhausting air contaminants, generally used for bench-scale laboratory
						operations but not necessarily involving the use of a bench or table.
(14) "Military Applications" means the
						acquisition, research, development, testing, evaluation and training related to
						tactical vehicles, vessels, aircraft, equipment and weaponry owned or operated
						by the armed forces of the United States.
(15) "Military Tracer Gas Array" means the
						simultaneous use of multiple Tracer ES&T Model 2600 Tracer Gas Analyzers
						(TGA), to measure sulfur hexafluoride and other gases in support of military
						training and operations as well as United States military
						applications.
(16) "Person" shall
						have the same meaning as defined in Health and Safety Code section
						39047.
(17) "Research" means an objective and
						systematic investigation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of
						scientific facts or revision of accepted scientific theories or laws in the
						light of new facts that cannot be answered a priori or by other
						methods.
(18) "Research Facility"
						means a physical location consisting of one or more buildings, such as a
						campus, which are all part of a single entity and whose primary purpose is to
						conduct research and/or provide education. The facility is under close
						supervision of technically trained personnel and is not engaged in the
						manufacture of products for sale in commerce or other off-site distribution. A
						research facility must be a U.S. government owned national laboratory or an
						accredited post-secondary institution that grants advanced academic degrees.
						Accreditation must be from a U.S. Department of Education approved accrediting
						agency.
(19) "Sand Casting" means
						the process of producing a part by forming a mold from a sand mixture and
						pouring molten magnesium into the cavity in the mold.
(20) "Tracer ES&T Model 2600 Tracer Gas
						Analyzers" means portable equipment designed, manufactured, and sold by Tracer
						Environmental Sciences & Technologies, Inc. (Tracer ES&T), a California
						Corporation, and designed specifically to analyze continuous samples of sulfur
						hexafluoride in the concentration range of 5 parts per trillion to 50 parts per
						billion.
(21) "Tracer Gas Testing"
						means the process of marking air or other media with a gas or other substance ,
						which is released into an enclosure, laboratory fume hood, room, building, or
						environment to detect, measure, monitor, or evaluate flow rate, leakage, or
						dispersion or dilution characteristics.
(22) "User" means any person who uses sulfur
						hexafluoride.