California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game › Subdivision 4 - Office of Spill Prevention and Response › Chapter 3 - Oil Spill Prevention and Response Planning › Subchapter 3 - Oil Spill Contingency Plans › Section 815.05 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions in Chapter 1, Section
						790 of this subdivision, the
						following definitions shall govern the construction of this subchapter. Where
						similar terms are defined, the following will supersede the definitions in
						Chapter 1:
(a)
"Area
					 Exercise"
means an exercise of the Area Contingency Plan and selected
					 oil spill contingency plans through the combination of tabletop and equipment
					 deployment exercises in accordance with the National Preparedness for Response
					 Exercise Program.
(b)
"Dedicated Response Resources"
means equipment and personnel
					 committed solely to oil spill response, containment, and cleanup that are not
					 used for any other activity that would adversely affect the ability of that
					 equipment and personnel to provide oil spill response services in the
					 timeframes for which the equipment and personnel are Rated. Ratings of six
					 hours or earlier require either dedicated response resources or OSRO owned and
					 controlled response resources, as specified in Section
					 819.04(b)(2) of
					 this subchapter.
(c)
"Equipment Deployment Exercise"
means an exercise of oil spill
					 response equipment identified in an oil spill contingency plan or an OSRO
					 application through its actual deployment and operation as it would be used in
					 spill response efforts in an environment of similar water depth, current
					 velocity, tidal range, and substrate, where the equipment may need to be used
					 in an actual oil spill response.
(d)
"Full Scale Combination
					 Exercise"
means an exercise of an oil spill contingency plan involving
					 both the spill management response efforts and the actual deployment and
					 operation of oil spill response equipment as it would be used in spill response
					 efforts at a specific site.
(e)
"Implementation of the Plan"
means that all essential
					 provisions have been taken to enable the plan or any portion of the plan to
					 become operational.
(f)
"Innocent Passage"
means navigation through the territorial
					 sea for the purpose of traversing that sea without entering internal waters or
					 calling at a roadstead or port facility outside internal waters. Passage shall
					 be continuous and expeditious. However, passage includes stopping and
					 anchoring, but only in so far as the same are incidental to ordinary navigation
					 or are rendered necessary by distress or for the purpose of rendering
					 assistance to persons, ships or aircraft in danger or distress.
(g)
"Letter of Approval"
means a letter or other written document issued by the Office of Spill
					 Prevention and Response to the owner/operator of a vessel or marine facility
					 plan holder following verification, inspection and if required by the
					 Administrator, satisfactory performance in an announced and unannounced drill,
					 and final review of the facility or vessel plan holder's contingency
					 plan.
(h)
"Marine
					 Waters"
means those California marine waters subject to tidal
					 influence and includes all waterways used for waterborne commercial vessel
					 traffic to the Port of Stockton and the Port of Sacramento.
(i)
"Non-Dedicated Response
					 Resources"
means those response resources listed by an OSRO for oil
					 spill response activities that are not dedicated response resources.
(j)
"OSRO-owned and controlled
					 resources"
means equipment owned by the OSRO and personnel who are
					 employed directly by the OSRO.
(k)
"OSRO Rating Letter"
(ORL) means a written document issued by
					 the Office of Spill Prevention and Response to an OSRO following verification,
					 inspection and unless exempted by the Administrator, satisfactory performance
					 in an announced and unannounced drill, and final review of the OSRO's
					 application.
(l)
"Plan
					 Holder"
means the owner/operator of a tank vessel, nontank vessel,
					 marine facility, small marine fueling facility, or vessel carrying oil as
					 secondary cargo responsible for the development, submittal, update, maintenance
					 of, and compliance with the oil spill contingency plan required under this
					 subchapter.
(m)
"Plan
					 Recipient"
means a receiving agency and any other entity that has been
					 designated in this subchapter to receive a copy of the vessel or marine
					 facility oil spill contingency plan.
(n) "Shallow-Draft Vessel" means:
(1) for purposes of boom deployment, a vessel
					 that must be able to operate in water depths of two feet or less;
(2) for purposes of skimming operations, a
					 vessel and attendant skimming system that must be able to operate in water
					 depths of three feet or less.