California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 3 - State Property Operations › Chapter 1 - State Lands Commission › Article 5 - Marine Terminals Inspection and Monitoring › Section 2315 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
					 definitions shall govern the construction of this article:
(a) "Administrator" means the administrator
				  for oil spill response, as referenced in Public Resources Code Section
				  8750,
				  subsection (a).
(b) "Apparent
				  violation" means an act, course of action or omission which, in the opinion of
				  an agent or employee of the Division authorized to make such a determination,
				  appears to be in violation of one or more of the provisions of Article
				  5.
(c) "Barge" means any vessel
				  that carries oil in commercial quantities as cargo, but is not equipped with a
				  means of self-propulsion.
(d)
				  "Bunkers" or "bunker fuel" means fuel oil or lubrication oil supplied to any
				  vessel for operating its propulsion and auxiliary machinery.
(e) "CFR" means the currently effective
				  edition of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.
(f) "Commission" means the California State
				  Lands Commission.
(g) "Division"
				  means the Marine Environmental Protection Division of the California State
				  Lands Commission.
(h) "Division
				  Chief" means the Chief of the Marine Environmental Protection Division or any
				  employee of the Division authorized by the Chief to act on his
				  behalf.
(i) "HOSE TECHNICAL
				  INFORMATION BULLETIN: No. IP-11-4" means the 1995 edition of the "Hose
				  Technical Information Bulletin: No. IP-11-4; Oil Suction and Discharge Hose;
				  Manual for Maintenance, Testing and Inspection", published by the Rubber
				  Manufacturers Association (RMA), 1400 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
				  20005.
(j) "Hot work" means work
				  involving sources of ignition or temperatures sufficiently high to cause the
				  ignition of a flammable gas mixture. This includes any work requiring the use
				  of welding, burning or soldering equipment; blow torches; permitted power
				  driven tools; portable electrical equipment which is not intrinsically safe or
				  contained within an approved explosion proof housing; sand blasting equipment;
				  or internal combustion engines.
(k)
				  "ISGOTT" means the Fourth Edition of the International Safety Guide for Oil
				  Tankers and Terminals, published in 1996 by the International Chamber of
				  Shipping (ICS), 30/32 St. Mary Axe, London EC3A 8ET, England.
(l) "International Safety Management (ISM)
				  Code" or "ISM Code" means the International Management Code for the Safe
				  Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention adopted by the International
				  Maritime Organization (IMO) by resolution A.741(18), as an amendment to the
				  Annex to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
				  (SOLAS), (new Chapter IX) at the IMO's May 1994 SOLAS Conference.
(m) "Marine terminal" means a facility,
				  including a mobile transfer unit, other than a vessel, located on or adjacent
				  to marine waters in California, used for transferring oil to or from tank
				  vessels or barges. The term references all parts of the facility including, but
				  not limited to, structures, equipment and appurtenances thereto used or capable
				  of being used to transfer oil to or from tank vessels or barges. For the
				  purpose of these regulations, a marine terminal includes all piping not
				  integrally connected to a tank facility. A tank facility means any one or
				  combination of above ground storage tanks, including any piping which is
				  integral to the tank, which contains crude oil or its fractions and which is
				  used by a single business entity at a single location or site. A pipe is
				  integrally related to an above ground storage tank if the pipe is connected to
				  the tank and meets any of the following:
(1)
				  The pipe is within the dike or containment area;
(2) The pipe is connected to the first flange
				  or valve after the piping exits the containment area; or
(3) The pipe is connected to the first flange
				  or valve on the exterior of the tank, if state or federal law does not require
				  a containment area.