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 7 - Low Carbon Fuel Standard › Section 95481 - Definitions and Acronyms

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
For the purposes of sections
						95480 through
						95503, the definitions in Health
						and Safety Code sections
						39010
						through
						39060
						shall apply, except as otherwise specified in this section or sections
						95482 through
						95503:
(1) "Account Administrator" means the person
						who can establish and activate user accounts for the reporting party
						organization as well as upload data (but not necessarily "submit" reports) into
						the LRT-CBTS. Account administrators with "signatory authority" may submit
						Quarterly and Annual Reports; initiate and view all credit transfers and credit
						transfer activity; access the Credit Balance ledger for the organization; and
						select/authorize broker(s) to represent them.
(2) "Advanced Credits" means LCFS base
						electricity credits that are issued prior to the quarter in which
						credit-generating transactions have occurred. Advanced credits can only be sold
						via the Credit Clearance Market, and only retired for the purpose of meeting
						compliance obligation.
(3)
						"Advanced Credit Window" is the six-year period during which advanced credits
						can be issued and after which base credit issuances will be adjusted to account
						for advanced credits.
(4) "Adverse
						Validation Statement" and "Adverse Verification Statement" means a statement
						rendered by a verification body attesting that:
(1) the verification body cannot say, with
						reasonable assurance, that the reported value is free of a material
						misstatement, or
(2) the data
						submitted contain one or more correctable errors, or
(3) both, and thus is not in conformance with
						the requirement to fix such errors pursuant to section
						95501(b)(6). This
						definition applies to Adverse Validation Statements for fuel pathway
						applications and Adverse Verification Statements for Annual Fuel Pathway
						Reports, Quarterly Fuel Transactions Reports, Crude Oil Quarterly and Annual
						Volumes Reports, Low-Complexity/Low-Energy-Use Refinery Reports, and Project
						Reports. "Material misstatement" for each type of report is assessed pursuant
						to sections
						95501(b)(9) through
						(11).
(5) "AEZ-EF Model" means the Agro-Ecological
						Zone Emissions Factor model (December 31, 2014), posted at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs_meetings/lcfs_meetings.htm
and available for download at
						http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs_meetings/aez-ef_model_v52.xlsm, which is
						incorporated herein by reference.
(6) "Aggregated Transaction Indicator" means
						an identifier for reported transactions that are a result of an aggregation or
						summing of more than one transaction in the LRT-CBTS. An entry of 'True'
						indicates that multiple transactions have been aggregated and are reported with
						a single Transaction Number. An entry of 'False' means that the transaction
						record results from one fuel transaction reported as a single Transaction
						Number.
(7) "Alternative Fuel"
						means any transportation fuel that is not CaRFG or a diesel fuel, including
						those fuels specified in section
						95482(a)(3) through
						(a)(13).
(8) "Alternative Jet Fuel" means a drop-in
						fuel, made from petroleum or non-petroleum sources, which can be blended and
						used with conventional petroleum jet fuels without the need to modify aircraft
						engines and existing fuel distribution infrastructure.
(9) "Animal Fat" means the inedible fat that
						originates from a rendering facility as a product of rendering the by-products
						from meat processing facilities including animal parts, fat and bone. "Yellow
						grease" must be reported under an applicable animal fat pathway if evidence is
						not provided to the verifier or CARB to confirm the quantity that is animal fat
						and the quantity that is used cooking oil.
(10) "Application" means the type of vehicle
						where the fuel is consumed in terms of LDV/MDV for light-duty
						vehicle/medium-duty vehicle or HDV for heavy-duty vehicle.
(11) "Aviation Gasoline" means a complex
						mixture of volatile hydrocarbons, with or without additives, suitably blended
						to be used in aviation engines.
(12) "Avoided Cost Calculator" means the
						Excel-based spreadsheet model (May 2018) produced by Energy and Environmental
						Economics, Inc. (E3) for use in demand-side cost-effectiveness proceedings at
						the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is incorporated herein
						by reference, and is available for download at
						http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=5267.
(13) "Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV)" means
						any vehicle that operates solely by use of a battery or battery pack, or that
						is powered primarily through the use of an electric battery or battery pack but
						uses a flywheel or capacitor that stores energy produced by the electric motor
						or through regenerative braking to assist in vehicle operation.
(14) "Biodiesel" means a fuel as defined in
						California Code of Regulations, title 4, section
						4140(a).
(15) "Biodiesel Blend" means biodiesel
						blended with CARB diesel.
(16)
						"Biogas" means the raw gaseous mixture comprised primarily of methane and
						carbon dioxide and derived from sources, including but not limited to, the
						anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in a landfill, lagoon, or constructed
						reactor (digester). Biogas often contains a number of other impurities, such as
						hydrogen sulfide, and it cannot be directly injected into natural gas pipelines
						or combusted in most natural-gas-fueled vehicles. It can be used as a fuel in
						boilers and engines to produce electrical power. The biogas can be refined to
						produce near-pure methane, which is sold as biomethane.
(17) "Bio-CNG" means biomethane which has
						been compressed to CNG. Bio-CNG has equivalent performance characteristics when
						compared to fossil CNG.
(18)
						"Bio-LNG" means biomethane which has been compressed and liquefied into LNG.
						Bio-LNG has equivalent performance characteristics when compared to fossil
						LNG.
(19) "Bio-L-CNG" means
						biomethane which has been compressed, liquefied, re-gasified, and re-compressed
						into L-CNG, and has performance characteristics at least equivalent to fossil
						L-CNG.
(20) "Biomass" means
						non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material originating from plants,
						animals, or micro-organisms, including: products, by-products, residues and
						waste from agriculture, forestry, and related industries; the non-fossilized
						and biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes; and
						gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and
						biodegradable organic material.
(21) "Biomass-based Diesel" means a biodiesel
						or a renewable diesel.
(22)
						"Biomethane" means methane derived from biogas, or synthetic natural gas
						derived from renewable resources, including the organic portion of municipal
						solid waste, which has been upgraded to meet standards for injection to a
						natural gas common carrier pipeline, or for use in natural gas vehicles,
						natural gas equipment, or production of renewable hydrogen. Biomethane contains
						all of the environmental attributes associated with biogas and can also be
						referred to as renewable natural gas.
(23) "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. Each blendstock corresponds to a fuel pathway in
						the California-modified Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use
						in Transportation version 3.0 (CA-GREET 3.0) model, (August 13, 2018), which is
						incorporated herein by reference. A blendstock that is used directly as a
						transportation fuel in a vehicle is considered a finished fuel.
(24) "Brown Grease" means an emulsion of fat,
						oil, grease, solids, and water separated from wastewater in a grease
						interceptor (grease trap) and collected for use as a fuel feedstock. Brown
						grease must be reported under an applicable used cooking oil (UCO) pathway,
						i.e., reported as "unprocessed UCO" only if evidence is provided to the
						verifier or CARB to confirm that it has not been processed prior to receipt by
						the fuel production facility.
(25)
						"Business Partner" refers to the counterparty in a specific transaction
						involving the fuel reporting entity. This can be either the buyer or the seller
						of fuel.
(26) "Carbon Intensity
						(CI)" means the quantity of life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, per unit of
						fuel energy, expressed in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule
						(gCO2e/MJ).
(27) "Cargo Handling Equipment" means any
						off-road, self-propelled vehicle or equipment, other than yard trucks, used at
						a port or intermodal rail yard to lift or move container, bulk, or liquid cargo
						carried by ship, train, or another vehicle, or used to perform maintenance and
						repair activities that are routinely scheduled or that are due to predictable
						process upsets. Equipment includes, but is not limited to, rubber-tired gantry
						cranes, top handlers, side handlers, reach stackers, loaders, aerial lifts,
						excavators, tractors, and dozers.
(28) "CHAdeMO Connector" means a connector
						and communication protocol for vehicle DC charging initially developed in Japan
						during 2005-2009. It was first adopted into international standards IEC
						61851-23/24 and IEC 62196-3 in 2014 and then into USA standard IEEE 2030.1.1 in
						2015. Further updates to the protocol are managed by the CHAdeMO
						Association.
(29) "Clean Fuel
						Reward" is a statewide program established by EDUs to provide a reduction in
						price on new light duty EV purchases or leases in California. The Clean Fuel
						Reward is funded exclusively through LCFS proceeds generated by EDUs from
						electricity fuel.
(30) "Compressed
						Natural Gas (CNG)" means natural gas that has been compressed to a pressure
						greater than ambient pressure.
(31)
						"Conflict of Interest" means 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 validation or
						verification statement on a potential client's LCFS data report, or the person
						or body's objectivity in performing validation or verification services is, or
						might be, otherwise compromised.
(32) "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.
(33) "Conventional Jet Fuel" means aviation
						turbine fuel including Commercial and Military Jet Fuel. Commercial Jet Fuel
						includes products known as Jet A, Jet A-1, and Jet B. Military Jet Fuel
						includes products known as JP-5 and JP-8.
(34) "Correctable Errors" means one or more
						errors that result from a nonconformance with this subarticle and are
						identified by the verification team as errors that affect data subject to
						validation or verification as specified in section
						95500. Differences that, in the
						professional judgment of the verification team, are the result of differing but
						reasonable methods of truncation or rounding or averaging, where a specific
						procedure is not prescribed by this subarticle, are not considered
						errors.
(35) "Credit Generator"
						means a fuel reporting entity or a project operator that generates LCFS credit
						in the LCFS program.
(36) "Credits"
						and "Deficits" mean the units of measure used for determining a regulated
						entity's compliance with the average carbon intensity requirements in section
						95484. Credits and deficits are
						denominated in units of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
						(CO2e), and are calculated pursuant to sections
						95486.1(a), (c),
						95486.2(a)(5) and
						(b)(5),
						95489 and
						95490.
(37) "Day" means a calendar day unless
						otherwise specified as a business day.
(38) "Deficit Generator" means a fuel
						reporting entity who generates deficits in the LCFS program.
(39) "Diesel Fuel" (also called conventional
						diesel fuel) has the same meaning as specified in California Code of
						Regulations, title 13, section
						2281(b).
(40) "Direct Current Fast Charging" means
						charging an electric vehicle at 50 kW and higher using direct
						current.
(41) "Disadvantaged
						Communities" means communities that are defined by California Health and Safety
						Code section
						39711(a)
						that are identified based on geographic, socioeconomic, public health, and
						environmental hazard criteria, and may include, but are not limited to, either
						of the following:
(1) areas
						disproportionately affected by environmental pollution and other hazards that
						can lead to negative public health effects, exposure, or environmental
						degradation or
(2) areas with
						concentrations of people that are of low-income, high unemployment, low levels
						of homeownership, high rent burden, sensitive populations, or low levels of
						educational attainment.
(42) "Distiller's Corn Oil" has the same
						meaning as "Technical Corn Oil."
(43) "Distiller's Sorghum Oil" has the same
						meaning as "Technical Sorghum Oil."
(44) "Drayage Trucks" means vehicles as
						defined in California Code of Regulations, title 13, section
						2027(c).
(45) "E100," also known as "Denatured Fuel
						Ethanol," means nominally anhydrous ethyl alcohol.
(46) "Electrical Distribution Utility" means
						an entity that owns or operates an electrical distribution system, including:
(A) a public utility as defined in the Public
						Utilities Code section
						216
						(referred to as an Investor Owned Utility, or IOU); or
1. "Large Investor-owned Utility" means an
						IOU with annual load served equal to or more than 10,000 Gigawatt-hours (GWh)
						in 2017;
2. "Medium Investor-owned
						Utility" means an IOU with annual load served of less than 10,000 GWh and equal
						to or more than 700 GWh in 2017;
3.
						"Small Investor-owned Utility" means an IOU with annual load served equal to or
						less than 700 GWh in 2017.
or
(B) a local publicly-owned electric utility
						(POU) as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						224.3;
1. "Large Publicly-owned Utility" means a
						California POU with annual load served equal to or more than 10,000
						Gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2017;
2.
						"Medium Publicly-owned Utility" means a California POU with annual load served
						of less than 10,000 GWh and equal to or more than 700 GWh in 2017;
3. "Small Publicly-owned Utility" means a
						California POU with annual load served of less than 700 GWh in 2017.
or
(C) an Electrical Cooperative (COOP) as
						defined in Public Utilities Code section
						2776.
(47) "Electric Cargo Handling Equipment
						(eCHE)" means cargo handling equipment using electricity as the fuel.
(48) "Electric Power for Ocean-going Vessel
						(eOGV)" means shore power provided to an ocean going vessel at-berth.
(49) "Electric Transport Refrigeration Units
						(eTRU)" means refrigeration systems powered by electricity designed to
						refrigerate or heat perishable products that are transported in various
						containers, including semi-trailers, truck vans, shipping containers, and rail
						cars.
(50) "Electric Vehicle (EV),"
						for purposes of this regulation, refers to Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and
						Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs).
(51) "Energy Economy Ratio (EER)" means the
						dimensionless value that represents the efficiency of a fuel as used in a
						powertrain as compared to a reference fuel used in the same powertrain. EERs
						are often a comparison of miles per gasoline gallon equivalent (mpge) between
						two fuels. EERs for fixed guideway systems are based on MJ/number of
						passenger-miles.
(52)
						"Environmental Attribute" means greenhouse gas emission reduction recognition
						in any form, including verified emission reductions, voluntary emission
						reductions, offsets, allowances, credits, avoided compliance costs, emission
						rights and authorizations under any law or regulation, or any emission
						reduction registry, trading system, or reporting or reduction program for
						greenhouse gas emissions that is established, certified, maintained, or
						recognized by any international, governmental, or non-governmental
						agency.
(53) "Executive Officer"
						means the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, or his or
						her delegate.
(54) "Exchange" means
						a central marketplace with established rules and regulations where buyers and
						sellers meet to conduct trades.
(55) "Export" means transportation fuel
						reported in the LRT-CBTS program that is subsequently delivered outside of
						California and not used for transportation in California.
(56) "Feedstock First Collection Point" means
						the facility that aggregates and stores or treats feedstock materials collected
						from a point of origin. The first collection point may be upstream of the fuel
						production facility, or, if feedstocks are transported to the fuel production
						facility directly from the point of origin, the first collection point is the
						fuel production facility.
(57)
						"Feedstock Transport Mode" means the applicable combination of actual delivery
						methods and the distance through which the feedstock was transported to any
						intermediate entities and ending at a fuel production facility. The fuel
						pathway holder and any entity reporting the fuel must demonstrate that the
						actual feedstock transport mode and distance conforms to the stated mode and
						distance in the certified pathway.
(58) "Final Distribution Facility" means the
						stationary finished fuel transfer point from which the finished fuel is
						transferred into the cargo tank truck, pipeline, or other delivery vessel for
						delivery to the facility at which the finished fuel will be dispensed into
						motor vehicles.
(59) "Finished
						Fuel" means a fuel that is used directly in a vehicle for transportation
						purposes without requiring additional chemical or physical
						processing.
(60) "First Fuel
						Reporting Entity" means the first entity responsible for reporting in the
						LRT-CBTS for a given amount of fuel. This entity initially holds the status as
						the fuel reporting entity and the credit or deficit generator for this fuel
						amount, but may transfer either status pursuant to sections
						95483 or
						95483.1.
(61) "Fish Oil" means the fat that originates
						from fish processing operations as a product of rendering fat from residual
						fish parts.
(62) "Fixed Guideway
						System" means a system of public transit electric vehicles that can operate
						only on its own guideway (directly operated, or DO), or through overhead or
						underground electricity supply constructed specifically for that purpose, such
						as light rail, heavy rail, cable car, street car, and trolley bus.
(63) "Fossil CNG" means CNG that is derived
						solely from petroleum or fossil sources, such as oil fields and coal
						beds.
(64) "Fossil LNG" means LNG
						that is derived solely from petroleum or fossil sources, such as oil fields and
						coal beds.
(65) "Fossil L-CNG"
						means L-CNG that is derived solely from petroleum or fossil sources, such as
						oil fields and coal beds.
(66)
						"Fuel Pathway" means, for a particular finished fuel, the collective set of
						processes, operations, parameters, conditions, locations, and technologies
						throughout all stages that CARB considers appropriate to account for in the
						system boundary of a complete well-to-wheel analysis of that fuel's life cycle
						greenhouse gas emissions.
(67)
						"Fuel Pathway Applicant" refers to an entity that has registered in the
						Alternative Fuel Portal pursuant to section
						95483.2 and has submitted an
						application including all required documents and attestations in support of the
						application requesting a certified fuel pathway.
(68) "Fuel Pathway Code" means the identifier
						in the LRT-CBTS that applies to a specific fuel pathway certified pursuant to
						sections 95488 through
						95488.10.
(69) "Fuel Pathway Holder" means a fuel
						pathway applicant that has received a certified fuel pathway carbon intensity
						based on site-specific data, including a Provisional fuel pathway.
(70) "Fuel Production Facility" means the
						facility at which the fuel is produced. "Fuel Production facility" means, with
						respect to biomethane to vehicle fuel pathways, a facility at which fuel is
						upgraded, purified, or processed to meet standards for injection to a natural
						gas common carrier pipeline or for use in natural gas vehicles.
(71) "Fuel Reporting Entity" means an entity
						that is required to report fuel transactions in the LRT-CBTS pursuant to
						section 95483 or
						95483.1. Fuel reporting entity
						refers to the first fuel reporting entity and to any entity to whom the
						reporting entity status is passed for a given quantity of fuel.
(72) "Fuel Transport Mode" means the
						applicable combination of actual fuel delivery methods, such as truck routes,
						rail lines, pipelines, and any other fuel distribution methods, and the
						distance through which the fuel was transported under contract from the entity
						that generated or produced the fuel, to any intermediate entities, and ending
						at the fuel blender, producer, importer, or provider in California. The fuel
						pathway holder and any entity reporting the fuel must demonstrate that the
						actual fuel transport mode and distance conforms to the stated mode and
						distance in the certified pathway.
(73) "Green Tariff" means a program in which
						a retail seller of electricity offers its customers an opportunity to purchase
						electricity sourced from low-carbon intensity energy resources. This includes
						the Green Tariff Shared Renewables program established pursuant to California
						Senate Bill 43 (2013) and defined under the California Public Utilities Code
						sections
						2831-
						2833.
(74) "GTAP" or "GTAP Model" means the Global
						Trade Analysis Project Model (December 2014), which is incorporated herein by
						reference, and is a software available for download at
https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/resources/res_display.asp?RecordlD=4577
.
(75) "Heavy-Duty Vehicle" means a vehicle
						that is rated at or greater than 14,001 pounds gross vehicle weight rating
						(GVWR).
(76) "Holdback Credits"
						means the portion of base residential EV charging credits issued to an EDU that
						are not contributed by the EDU to the Clean Fuel Reward program.
(77) "Home Fueling" means the dispensing of
						fuel by use of a fueling appliance that is located on or within a residential
						property with access limited to a single household.
(78) "Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV)" means
						any vehicle that can draw propulsion energy from both of the following
						on-vehicle sources of stored energy:
1) a
						consumable fuel, and
2) an energy
						storage device, such as a battery, capacitor, or flywheel.
(79) "Hydrogen Station Capacity Evaluator" or
						"HySCapE" means a tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to
						determine the dispensing capacity of a hydrogen station, HySCapE Version 1.0
						(August 13, 2018), which is incorporated herein by reference and available at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs.htm
.
(80) "Import" means to bring a product from
						outside California into California.
(81) "Importer" means the person who owns the
						transportation fuel or blendstock, in the transportation equipment that held or
						carried the product, at the point the fuel entered California. For purposes of
						this definition, "transportation equipment" includes, but is not limited to,
						rail cars, cargo tanker trucks, and pipelines.
(82) "Independent Reviewer" means an
						accredited lead verifier, within a verification body, who (A) has not
						participated in conducting the LCFS validation or verification services for the
						client for the current application period or reporting period, and (B) provides
						an independent review of findings and services rendered to the client as
						required in section
						95501. The independent reviewer is
						not required to meet the additional specified competency requirements in
						sections 95502(c)(4) and
						95502(c)(5) that
						the verification team leader must meet.
(83) "Ineligible Specified Source Feedstock"
						means a feedstock specified in section
						95488.8(g)(1)(A)
						that does not meet the chain-of-custody documentation requirements specified in
						section 95488.8(g)(1)(B).
(84) "Intermediate Calculated Value" means a
						value that is used in the calculation of a reported value but does not by
						itself meet the reporting requirement under section
						95491.
(85) "Intermediate Facility" means a facility
						in a fuel supply chain, which is not the fuel production facility, that
						contributes site-specific data for determination of a fuel pathway carbon
						intensity. Intermediate facilities produce components of a fuel or intermediate
						chemical that may be further processed into a fuel. This term includes
						feedstock-processing facilities.
(86) "LCFS Credit Broker" is a person
						registered in the LRT-CBTS specifically to facilitate the transfer of LCFS
						credits between LRT-CBTS accounts.
(87) "Lead Verifier" means a person who has
						met all the requirements in section
						95502 and who may act as either
						(A) the lead verifier of a verification team providing validation or
						verification services, or (B) as a lead verifier providing an independent
						review of validation or verification services rendered.
(88) "Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
						means the aggregate quantity of greenhouse gas emissions (including direct
						emissions and significant indirect emissions, such as significant emissions
						from land use changes), as determined by the Executive Officer, related to the
						full fuel life cycle, including all stages of fuel and feedstock production and
						distribution, from feedstock generation or extraction through the distribution
						and delivery and use of the finished fuel to the ultimate consumer, where the
						mass values for all greenhouse gases are adjusted to account for their relative
						global warming potential.
(89)
						"Light-Duty Vehicle" and "Medium-Duty Vehicle" mean a vehicle category that
						includes both light-duty (LDV) and medium-duty vehicles (MDV).
(A) "LDV" means a vehicle that is rated at
						8,500 pounds or less GVWR.
(B)
						"MDV" means a vehicle that is rated between 8,501 and 14,000 pounds
						GVWR.
(90) "Liquefied
						Compressed Natural Gas (L-CNG)" means LNG that has been liquefied and
						transported to a dispensing station where it was then re-gasified and
						compressed to a pressure greater than ambient pressure.
(91) "Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)" means
						natural gas that has been liquefied.
(92) "Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or
						propane)" has the same meaning as defined in Vehicle Code section
						380.
(93) "Load-Serving Entity" means any entity
						that (A) sells or provides electricity to end users located in California, or
						(B) generates electricity at one site and consumes electricity at another site
						that is in California and that is owned or controlled by the company. A
						load-serving entity does not include the owner or operator of a
						co-generator.
(94) "Low-Carbon
						Intensity (Low-CI) Electricity" means any electricity that is determined to
						have a carbon intensity that is less than the average grid electricity for the
						region, including but not limited to an "eligible renewable energy resource" as
						defined in Public Utilities Code sections
						399.11-
						399.36
						under the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program.
(95) "Low-Complexity/Low-Energy-Use Refinery"
						means a refinery that meets both of the following criteria:
(A) A Modified Nelson Complexity Score equal
						to or less than 5 as calculated in section
						95489(d)(1)(A).
(B) Total annual energy use equal to or less
						than 5 million MMBtu as calculated in section
						95489(d)(1)(B).
(96) "Low-Income Communities" means census
						tracts with median household incomes at or below 80 percent of the statewide
						median income or with median household incomes at or below the threshold
						designated as low income by the Department of Housing and Community
						Development's list of state income limits adopted pursuant to Health and Safety
						Code section
						50093.
(97) "Mandatory Reporting Regulation" or
						"MRR" means CARB'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).
(98) "Material Misstatement of Operational
						Carbon Intensity" means any discrepancy, omission, or misreporting, or
						aggregation of the three, identified in the course of verification services
						that leads a verification team to believe that the reported operational CI
						(gCO2e/MJ) contains one or more errors that,
						individually or collectively, result in an overstatement or understatement more
						than 5 percent of the reported operational CI, or 2
						gCO2e/MJ, whichever absolute value expressed in
						gCO2e/MJ is greater. Material misstatement is calculated
						separately for each operational CI. All correctable errors identified must be
						fixed prior to the completion of the verification services to receive a
						positive or qualified positive verification statement.
(99) "Material Misstatement of
						Low-Complexity/Low-Energy-Use (LC/LEU) Refinery Data" means any discrepancy,
						omission, or misreporting, or aggregation of the three, identified in the
						course of LC/LEU refinery report verification services that leads a
						verification team to believe that a LC/LEU Refinery Report contains one or more
						errors that, individually or collectively, result in an overstatement greater
						than 5 percent of the regulated entity's annual sum of quarterly reported
						volumes of CARBOB or diesel produced from crude oil. Discrepancies, omissions,
						or misreporting, or an aggregation of the three, that result in an
						understatement of the annual sum of quarterly reported volumes of CARBOB or
						diesel produced from crude oil submitted in the LC/LEU Refinery Report is not a
						LC/LEU refinery data material misstatement. Material misstatement is calculated
						separately, pursuant to section
						95501(b)(11), for
						the annual volume of CARBOB production from crude oil and for the annual volume
						of diesel production from crude oil. All correctable errors identified must be
						fixed prior to the completion of the verification services to receive a
						positive or qualified positive verification statement.
(100) "Material Misstatement of Project Data"
						means a discrepancy, omission, misreporting, or aggregation of the three,
						identified in the course of project verification services that leads a
						verification team to believe that a Project Report contains one or more errors
						that, individually or collectively, result in an overstatement greater than 5
						percent of the regulated entity's reported total greenhouse gas emission
						reductions. Discrepancies, omissions, or misreporting, or an aggregation of the
						three, which result in an understatement of total reported greenhouse gas
						emission reductions in the Project Report, is not a project material
						misstatement. Material misstatement is calculated separately, pursuant to
						section 95501(b)(10), for
						each Project Report. All correctable errors identified must be fixed prior to
						the completion of the verification services to receive a positive or qualified
						positive verification statement.
(101) "Material Misstatement of Quarterly
						Fuel Quantity" means any discrepancy, omission, or misreporting, or aggregation
						of the three, identified in the course of validation or verification services
						that leads a verification team to believe that the regulated entity's reported
						fuel quantity per fuel pathway code per quarter contains one or more errors
						that, individually or collectively, result in an overstatement or
						understatement greater than 5 percent. Material misstatement is calculated
						separately, pursuant to section
						95501(b)(9), for
						each quarterly fuel quantity per fuel pathway code. All correctable errors
						identified must be fixed prior to the completion of the verification services
						to receive a positive or qualified positive verification statement.
(102) "Modified Nelson Complexity Score"
						means a Nelson Complexity Score that is calculated without including lube oil
						and asphalt capacity, as set forth in section
						95489(d)(1)(A).
(103) "Motor Vehicle" has the same meaning as
						defined in section
						415 of the
						Vehicle Code.
(104) "Multi-fuel
						Vehicle" means a vehicle that uses two or more distinct fuels for its
						operation. A multi-fuel vehicle (also called a vehicle operating in
						blended-mode) includes a bi-fuel vehicle and can have two or more fueling ports
						onboard the vehicle. A fueling port can be an electrical plug or a receptacle
						for liquid or gaseous fuel. For example, most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
						use both electricity and gasoline as the fuel source and can be "refueled"
						using two separately distinct fueling ports.
(105) "Multi-family Residence" means a
						dwelling unit in a building that consists of at least four condominium dwelling
						units or at least three apartment dwelling units in which each unit shares a
						floor or ceiling on at least one side.
(106) "Natural Gas" means a mixture of
						gaseous hydrocarbons and other compounds, with at least 80 percent methane (by
						volume), and typically sold or distributed by utilities, such as any utility
						company regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.
(107) "Nelson Complexity Score" means the
						commonly used industry measure of a refinery's ability to convert crude oils to
						finished fuels, taking into consideration the complexity of the technologies
						incorporated within the process and related capacities as compared to crude
						distillation.
(108)
						"Nonconformance" means the failure to use any method or meet any other
						requirement specified in this subarticle.
(109) "Ocean-Going Vessel" means a
						commercial, government, or military vessel meeting any one of the following
						criteria:
(A) A vessel greater than or equal
						to 400 feet in length overall (LOA) as defined in 50 Code of Federal
						Regulations (CFR) §
														679.2, as adopted June 19,
						1996;
(B) A vessel greater than or
						equal to 10,000 gross tons (GT ITC) pursuant to the convention measurement
						(international system) as defined in
						46 CFR §
															69.51 -.61, as adopted September 12,
						1989;
(C) A vessel propelled by a
						marine compression ignition engine with a per-cylinder displacement of greater
						than or equal to 30 liters.
(110) "On-road" means a vehicle that is
						designed to be driven on public highways and roadways and that is registered or
						is capable of being registered by the California Department of Motor Vehicles
						(DMV) under Vehicle Code sections
						4000 et seq.
						- or DMV's equivalent in another state, province, or country; or the
						International Registration Plan. A vehicle covered under CARB's In-Use Off-Road
						Regulation, Code of Regulations, title 13, section
						2449, is not covered under this
						definition.
(111) "OPGEE" or "OPGEE
						Model" means the Oil Production Greenhouse gas Emissions Estimator Version 2.0
						(June 20, 2018) posted at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs.htm
,
						which is incorporated herein by reference.
(112) "Opt-in Fuel Reporting Entity" means an
						entity that meets the requirements of section
						95483.1 and voluntarily opts in to
						be a fuel reporting entity and is therefore subject to the requirements set
						forth in this subarticle.
(113)
						"Opt-in Project" means a project approved for generating LCFS credits by the
						Executive Officer pursuant to sections
						95489 or
						95490.
(114) "Over-the-Counter" means the trading of
						LCFS credits or contracts not executed or entered for clearing on any
						exchange.
(115) "Performance
						Review" means an assessment conducted by CARB of an applicant seeking to become
						accredited or reaccredited as a verification body or lead verifier pursuant to
						section 95502 of this subarticle. Such an
						assessment may include a review of applicable past sampling plans, validation
						and verification reports, validation and verification statements, conflict of
						interest submittals, and additional information or documentation regarding the
						applicant's fitness for qualification.
(116) "Petroleum Intermediate" means a
						petroleum product that can be further processed to produce CARBOB, diesel, or
						other petroleum blendstocks.
(117)
						"Petroleum Product" means all refined and semi-refined products that are
						produced at a refinery by processing crude oil and other petroleum-based
						feedstocks, including petroleum products derived from co-processing biomass and
						petroleum feedstock together. "Petroleum product" does not include plastics or
						plastic products.
(118) "Plug-In
						Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)" means a hybrid electric vehicle with the
						capability to charge a battery from an off-vehicle electric energy source that
						cannot be connected or coupled to the vehicle in any manner while the vehicle
						is being driven.
(119) "Positive
						Validation Statement" and "Positive Verification Statement" means a statement
						rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say,
						with reasonable assurance, that the reported value is free of material
						misstatement, when applicable, and conforms to the requirements of this
						subarticle. This definition applies to Positive Validation Statements for fuel
						pathway applications and Positive Verification Statements for Annual Fuel
						Pathway Reports, Quarterly Fuel Transactions Reports, Crude Oil Quarterly and
						Annual Volumes Reports, Low-Complexity/Low-Energy-Use Refinery Reports, and
						Project Reports.
(120) "Private
						Access Fueling Facility" means a fueling facility with access restricted to
						privately-distributed electronic cards ("cardlock") or is located in a secure
						area not accessible to the public.
(121) "Producer" means, with respect to any
						fuel, the entity that made or prepared the fuel.
(122) "Product Transfer Document (PTD)" means
						a document that authenticates the transfer of ownership of fuel from a fuel
						reporting entity to the recipient of the fuel. A PTD is created by a fuel
						reporting entity to contain information collectively supplied by other fuel
						transaction documents, including bills of lading, invoices, contracts, meter
						tickets, rail inventory sheets, Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) product transfer
						documents, etc.
(123) "Project
						Operator" means an entity that registers an opt-in project in the Alternative
						Fuel Portal and has it approved for generating LCFS credits. A project operator
						must meet the requirements of sections
						95483.1 and
						95489 or
						95490.
(124) "Public Access Fueling Facility" means
						a fueling facility that is not a private-access fueling dispenser.
(125) "Qualified Positive Validation
						Statement" and "Qualified Positive Verification Statement" means a statement
						rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body can say,
						with reasonable assurance, that the reported value is free of material
						misstatement, when applicable, and is in conformance with the requirement to
						fix correctable errors pursuant to section
						95501(b)(6), but
						the data may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with the requirements
						of this subarticle, which do not result in a material misstatement. This
						definition applies to Qualified Positive Validation Statements for fuel pathway
						applications and Qualified Positive Verification Statements for Annual Fuel
						Pathway Reports, Quarterly Fuel Transactions Reports, Crude Oil Quarterly and
						Annual Volumes Reports, Low-Complexity/Low-Energy-Use Refinery Reports, and
						Project Reports.
(126) "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.
(127) "Reasonable
						Assurance" means a high degree of confidence that submitted data and statements
						are valid.
(128) "Regulated Entity"
						means an entity subject to any requirement pursuant to this
						subarticle.
(129) "Renewable Fuel
						Standard" means the program administered by the United States Environmental
						Protection Agency, under 40 CFR Part 80 : Regulation of Fuels and Fuel
						Additives, Subparts K and M.
(130)
						"Renewable Hydrocarbon Diesel" means a diesel fuel that is produced from
						non-petroleum 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. This includes the renewable portion of a diesel fuel
						derived from co-processing biomass with a petroleum feedstock.
(131) "Renewable Hydrogen" means hydrogen
						derived from (1) electrolysis of water or aqueous solutions using renewable
						electricity; (2) catalytic cracking or steam methane reforming of biomethane;
						or (3) thermochemical conversion of biomass, including the organic portion of
						municipal solid waste (MSW). Renewable electricity, for the purpose of
						renewable hydrogen production by electrolysis, means electricity derived from
						sources that qualify as eligible renewable energy resources as defined in
						California Public Utilities Code sections
						399.11-
						399.36.
(132) "Renewable Propane" means liquefied
						petroleum gas (LPG or propane) that is produced from non-petroleum renewable
						resources.
(133) "Rural Area" means
						a census tract with at least 75 percent of its population identified as rural
						by the latest US Census data.
(134)
						"SAE CCS Connector" means a connector that supports both AC J1772 and DC
						Charging and created by the Society of Automobile Engineers, which is a
						standards development organization for vehicle technology.
(135) "Shore Power" means electrical power
						being provided either by the local utility or by distributed generation to
						ocean-going vessels at-berth.
(136)
						"Single-family Residence" means a building designed to house a family in a
						single residential unit. A single-family residence is either detached or
						attached including duplex or townhouse units.
(137) "Site-specific Data" and "Site-specific
						Input" means an input value used in determination of fuel pathway carbon
						intensity value, or the raw operational data used to calculate an input value,
						which is required to be unique to the facility, pathway, and feedstock. All
						site-specific inputs must be measured, metered or otherwise documented, and
						verifiable, e.g., consumption of natural gas or grid electricity at a fuel
						production facility must be documented by invoices from the utility.
(138) "Specified Source Feedstocks" means
						feedstocks that require the chain of custody evidence specified in
						95488.8(g)(1)(B) to be eligible for a reduced CI associated with the use of a
						waste, residue, by-product or similar material. Specified source feedstocks are
						identified in section
						95488.8(g)(1)(A).
(139) "Staff" means CARB personnel unless
						otherwise specified or dictated by context.
(140) "Station Operational Status System
						(SOSS)" means a software database tool developed and maintained by California
						Fuel Cell Partnership to publicly monitor the operational status of hydrogen
						stations.
(141) "Steam Quality"
						means the ratio of the mass of vapor to the total mass of a vapor-liquid
						mixture of water at its saturation temperature.
(142) "Technical Corn Oil" means inedible oil
						recovered from thin stillage or the distiller's grains and solubles produced by
						a dry mill corn ethanol plant, termed distiller's corn oil (DCO), or other
						non-food grade corn oil from food processing operations.
(143) "Technical Sorghum Oil" means inedible
						oil recovered from thin stillage or the distiller's grains and solubles
						produced by a dry mill sorghum ethanol plant, termed distiller's sorghum oil
						(DSO), or other non-food grade sorghum oil from food processing
						operations.
(144) "Total Obligated
						Amount (TOA)" means the quantity of fuel for which the fuel reporting entity is
						the eligible credit or deficit generator. The LRT-CBTS calculates the TOA for
						each fuel pathway code. TOA is calculated as the difference between the fuel
						reported using transaction types that increase the net quantity of fuel that
						generates credits or deficits in the LRT-CBTS and the fuel reported using
						transaction types that decrease the net quantity of fuel that generates credits
						or deficits in the LRT-CBTS. Transaction types that increase the TOA include:
						Production in California, Production for Import, Import, Purchased with
						Obligation, Gain of Inventory. Transaction types that decrease the TOA include:
						Sold with Obligation, Loss of Inventory, Export, Not Used for
						Transportation.
(145) "Total Amount
						(TA)" means the total quantity of fuel reported by a fuel reporting entity
						irrespective of whether the entity retained status as the credit or deficit
						generator for that specific fuel volume. TA is calculated as the difference
						between the fuel reported using transaction types that increase the net fuel
						quantity reported in the LRT-CBTS and fuel reported using transaction type that
						decrease the net fuel quantity reported in the LRT-CBTS. Transaction types that
						increase the TA include: Production in California, Production for Import,
						Import, Purchased with Obligation, Purchased without Obligation, Gain of
						Inventory. Transaction types that decrease the TA include: Sold with
						Obligation, Sold without Obligation, Loss of Inventory, Export, Not Used for
						Transportation.
(146) "Transaction
						Date" means the title transfer date as shown on the Product Transfer
						Document.
(147) "Transaction
						Quantity" means the amount of fuel reported in a transaction. A Transaction
						Quantity must be reported in units, provided in Table 4 and in the
						LRT-CBTS.
(148) "Transaction Type"
						means the nature of a fuel-based transaction as defined below:
(A) "Production in California" means the
						transportation fuel was produced at a facility in California for use in
						California;
(B) "Production for
						Import" means the transportation fuel was produced outside of California and
						imported into California for use in transportation.
(C) "Import" means the transportation fuel
						was produced outside of California and later brought by any party other than
						its producer into California for use in transportation.
(D) "Purchased with Obligation" means the
						transportation fuel was purchased with the obligation to claim credits or
						deficits in the LRT-CBTS from a separate fuel reporting entity;
(E) "Purchased without Obligation" means the
						transportation fuel was purchased without obligation to claim credits or
						deficits in the LRT-CBTS from a separate fuel reporting entity;
(F) "Sold with Obligation" means the
						transportation fuel was sold with the obligation to claim credits or deficits
						in the LRT-CBTS by a fuel reporting entity;
(G) "Sold without Obligation" means the
						transportation fuel was sold without obligation to claim credits or deficits in
						the LRT-CBTS by a fuel reporting entity;
(H) "Export" means any fuel reported in the
						LRT-CBTS that is subsequently delivered outside of California and is not used
						for transportation in California;
(I) "Loss of Inventory" means the fuel
						entered the California fuel pool but was not used due to volume loss;
(J) "Gain of Inventory" means the fuel
						entered the California fuel pool due to a volume gain;
(K) "Not Used for Transportation" means a
						transportation fuel was reported with compliance obligation under the LCFS but
						was later not used for transportation purposes in California or otherwise
						determined to be exempt under section
						95482(d);
(L) "eTRU Fueling" means providing fuel to
						electric transport refrigeration units.
(M) "eCHE Fueling" means providing fuel to
						electric cargo handling equipment.
(N) "eOGV Fueling" means providing shore
						power to an ocean-going vessel at-berth.
(O) "EV Charging--Grid" means providing
						electricity to recharge EVs using the California Average Grid Electricity
						Lookup Table pathway for a given year as specified in section
						95488.5;
(P) "EV Charging--Non-Grid" means providing
						electricity that has a carbon intensity lower than the average grid electricity
						and is obtained through an approved arrangement as specified in section
						95488.8(h) or
						section 95488.8(i) to
						recharge EVs;
(Q) "EV
						Charging--Smart Charging" means providing electricity that is eligible to
						generate credits under the smart charging provisions in section
						95488.5 to recharge EVs;
(R) "Fixed Guideway Electricity Fueling"
						means fueling light rail, heavy rail, cable car, street car, and trolley bus,
						or exclusive right-of-way bus operations with electricity;
(S) "Forklift Electricity Fueling" means
						providing fuel to electric forklifts;
(T) "Forklift Hydrogen Fueling" means
						providing fuel to hydrogen forklifts;
(U) "Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) Fueling" means
						the dispensing of hydrogen at a fueling station designed for fueling hydrogen
						fuel cell electric vehicles;
(V)
						"Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) Fueling--Smart Electrolysis" means the dispensing of
						hydrogen that is eligible to generate credits under the smart charging or
						electrolysis provisions in section
						95488.5;
(W) "NGV Fueling" means the dispensing of
						natural gas at a fueling station designed for fueling natural gas
						vehicles;
(X) "Propane Fueling"
						means the dispensing of propane at a fueling station designed for fueling
						propane vehicles.
(149)
						"Transmix" means a mixture of refined products that forms when these products
						are transported through a pipeline. This mixture is typically a combination of
						two of the following: gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel.
(150) "Transportation Fuel" means any fuel
						used or intended for use as a motor vehicle fuel or for transportation purposes
						in a non-vehicular source.
(151)
						"Uncertainty" means the degree to which data or a data system is deemed to be
						indefinite or unreliable.
(152)
						"Used Cooking Oil" (or UCO) means fats and oils originating from commercial or
						industrial food processing operations, including restaurants, that have been
						used for cooking or frying. Feedstock characterized as UCO must contain only
						fats, oils, or greases that were previously used for cooking or frying
						operations. UCO must be characterized as "processed UCO" if it is known that
						processing has occurred prior to receipt by the fuel production facility or if
						evidence is not provided to the verifier or CARB to confirm that it is
						"unprocessed UCO."
(153)
						"Validation" means verification of a fuel pathway application.
(154) "Validation Statement" means the final
						statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether the fuel pathway
						application is free of material misstatement, and whether it conforms to the
						requirements of this subarticle.
(155) "Verification" means a systematic,
						independent and documented process for evaluation of reported data against the
						requirements specified in this subarticle.
(156) "Verification Body" means an entity
						accredited by the Executive Officer that is able to render a validation or
						verification statement and provide validation or verification services to
						entities required to contract for validation or verification.
(157) "Verification Services" means services
						provided during validation or verification as specified in section
						95501 beginning with the
						development of the validation or verification plan to submitting a validation
						or verification statement to CARB.
(158) "Verification Statement" means the
						final statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether the
						responsible entity's report is free of material misstatement, when applicable,
						and whether the report conforms to the requirements of this
						subarticle.
(159) "Verification
						Team" means all persons working for a verification body, including all
						subcontractors, to provide validation or verification services to an entity
						required to contract for validation or verification.
(160) "Verifier Review" means all reviews and
						services specified in section
						95501 that a verifier conducts,
						except the material misstatement assessment under section
						95501(b)(9) through
						(11). If some data sources are selected for
						data checks based on the sampling plan, the verifier will check for conformance
						with the requirements of this subarticle.
(161) "Yard Truck" An off-road mobile utility
						vehicle used to carry cargo containers with or without chassis; also known as
						utility tractor rig (UTR), yard tractor, yard goat, yard hostler, yard hustler,
						or prime mover. For the purpose of LCFS crediting an electric yard truck is
						considered a heavy-duty truck.
(162) "Yellow Grease" means a commodity
						produced from a mixture of:
(A) used cooking
						oil, and
(B) rendered animal fats
						that were not used for cooking. This mixture often is combined from multiple
						points of origin. Yellow grease must be characterized as "animal fat" if
						evidence is not provided to the verifier or CARB to confirm the quantity that
						is animal fat and the quantity that is used cooking
						oil.