California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 16 - Certification Fees for Mobile Sources › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 2901 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The definitions of this chapter supplement and are governed
					 by the definitions set forth in chapter 2 (commencing with section
					 39010), part 1, division 26 of the
					 California Health and Safety Code, unless a specific definition set forth
					 therein has been revised by this chapter.
"Base fee" means the certification fee applicable to all
					 applicants seeking certification or evaluation that do not qualify for a
					 reduced cost certification fee, including carry-over, partial carry-over, small
					 business, zero-emission, low California production manufacturer, low California
					 production for sale engine family, no change renewal, administrative change,
					 model change, aftermarket catalytic converter reduced cost application,
					 Category I or Category VIII.
"Carry-over" means an application that is identical to the
					 previous model year's application that resulted in the issuance of a
					 certification except for one or more of the following:
(1) model year;
(2) Test Group name, Engine family name,
				  Vehicle family name, or Evaporative family name;
(3) applicant contact information;
(4) projected sales data; or
(5) portions of an application that pertain
				  to compliance with on-board diagnostics requirements set forth in sections
				  1968.2 and
				  1971.1.
"Certification" means a finding by the state board that a
					 mobile source as described in Article 2 through Article 7 has satisfied the
					 criteria adopted by the state board for the control of specified air
					 contaminants from that mobile source.
"Certification fee" means the fee paid at the time of
					 application for certification or evaluation of any mobile source described in
					 Articles 2 through 7 for compliance with applicable emission
					 requirements.
"Engine family" has the same meaning as in the applicable
					 certification regulations for each of the mobile source categories, as defined
					 in Article 2 or Article 3, as applicable, that are found in Title 13.
"Evaporative family" has the same meaning as in the
					 applicable certification regulations for each of the mobile source categories,
					 as defined in Article 2 or Article 3, as applicable, that are found in Title
					 13. For the purpose of this section
					 2901, references to "evaporative
					 family" shall include "evaporative emissions family," as defined in section
					 2903.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the
					 California Air Resources Board (CARB) or his or her authorized
					 representative.
"Model year" has the same meaning as in the applicable
					 regulations for each of the mobile source categories covered in Articles 2
					 through 7 that are found in Title 13 and Title 17.
"Partial carry-over" means an application that is identical
					 to the previous model year's application that resulted in the issuance of a
					 certification except for one or more of the following:
(1) model year;
(2) Test Group name, Engine family name,
				  Vehicle family name, or Evaporative family name;
(3) applicant contact information;
(4) projected sales data or
(5) portions of an application that pertain
				  to compliance with on-board diagnostics requirements set forth in sections
				  1968.2 and
				  1971.1; and in addition one or
				  more of the following:
(6) model
				  names (including additional models if the certification emission levels are not
				  changed);
(7) part numbers
				  (including new parts if they are durable to full useful life and do not impact
				  the certification emission levels); and
(8) equipment types.
"Receipt of payment" means the date the fee that meets the
					 criteria for the selected category and fee type is received by the California
					 Air Resources Board, for the purpose of calculating fee refunds.
"Small business" is defined as a business that meets the
					 definition for "small business" in California Government Code section
					 11346.3,
					 subdivision (b)(4)(B) with the following additional conditions:
A business entity whose ownership interests, management and
					 operation are not subject to control, restriction, modification or limitation
					 by an outside source, individual, or another business entity is considered
					 independently owned and operated. An applicant business is not considered to be
					 independently owned and operated if evidence exists of either of the
					 following:
1) An outside person or
				  business concern owns or controls, or has the power to control, fifty percent
				  (50%) or more of the voting stock of the applicant business, or
2) One or more business owners, general
				  partners, directors, officers or members of an outside business concern
				  controls or has the power to control or influence the day-to-day operations of
				  the applicant business, board of directors, and/or owner(s) of the applicant
				  business.
"Test Group" is defined in section
					 2903.
"Vehicle family" has the same meaning as "heavy-duty
					 greenhouse gas vehicle family," as defined in section
					 2903.
"Zero-emission" means an application to certify a mobile
					 source technology that inherently produces zero exhaust emissions of any
					 criteria pollutant (or precursor pollutant) or greenhouse gas, excluding
					 emissions from air conditioning systems, under any possible operational modes
					 or conditions.