California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 2 - Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting › Subarticle 1 - General Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Reporting › Section 95102 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For the
						purposes of this article, the definitions in subsections (a), (b), and (c)
						shall apply. Subsection (b) is specific to product data definitions. Subsection
						(c) is specific to definitions regarding refining and related processes.
"Absorbent circulation pump" means a pump commonly
						  powered by natural gas pressure that circulates the absorbent liquid between
						  the absorbent regenerator and natural gas contactor.
"Accuracy" means the closeness of the agreement between
						  the result of the measurement and the true value of the particular quantity (or
						  a reference value determined empirically using internationally accepted and
						  traceable calibration materials and standard methods), taking into account both
						  random and systematic factors.
"Acid gas" means hydrogen sulfide
						  (H2S) and/or carbon dioxide (CO2)
						  contaminants that are separated from sour natural gas by an acid gas
						  removal.
"Acid gas removal unit (AGR)" means a process unit that
						  separates hydrogen sulfide and/or carbon dioxide from sour natural gas using
						  liquid or solid absorbents or membrane separators.
"Acid gas removal vent stack emissions" mean the acid
						  gas separated from the acid gas absorbing medium (e.g., an amine solution) and
						  released with methane and other light hydrocarbons to the atmosphere or a
						  flare.
"Adverse emissions data verification statement" means a
						  verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted
						  emissions data report is free of material misstatement, or that the emissions
						  data submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors as
						  defined pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the
						  requirement to fix such errors pursuant to section
						  95131(b)(9), or
						  both.
"Adverse product data verification statement" means a
						  verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted
						  emissions data report is free of material misstatement, or that the covered
						  product data submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors
						  as defined pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the
						  requirements to fix such errors pursuant to section
						  95131(b)(9), or
						  both.
"Adverse verification statement" means a verification
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body
						  cannot say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report
						  is free of material misstatement, or that the emissions or covered product data
						  submitted in the emissions data report contains correctable errors as defined
						  pursuant to this section and thus is not in conformance with the requirements
						  to fix such errors pursuant to section
						  95131(b)(9), or
						  both. This definition applies to the adverse emissions data verification
						  statement and the adverse product data verification statement.
"Agricultural waste" means waste produced on land used
						  for horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock
						  breeding and keeping, or grazing land, meadow land, osier land (growing
						  willow), market gardens and nursery grounds as a result of agricultural
						  activity.
"Air injected flare" means a flare in which air is
						  blown into the base of a flare stack to induce complete combustion of
						  gas.
"Annual" means with a frequency of once a year; unless
						  otherwise noted, annual events such as reporting requirements will be based on
						  the calendar year.
"API" means the American Petroleum Institute.
"API Gravity" means a scale used to reflect the
						  specific gravity (SG) of a fluid such as crude oil, water, or natural gas. The
						  API gravity is calculated as [(141.5/SG) - 131.5], where SG is the specific
						  gravity of the fluid at 60°F, and where API refers to the American
						  Petroleum Institute.
"AQMD/APCD" or "air district" or "air quality
						  management district" or "air pollution control district" means any district
						  created or continued in existence pursuant to the provisions of Part 3
						  (commencing with Section
						  40000) of Division 26 of the
						  Health and Safety Code.
"ARB" means the California Air Resources Board.
"ARB ID" means, for the purposes of this article, the
						  unique identification number assigned to each facility, supplier, and electric
						  power entity that reports GHG emissions to the ARB.
"ARB offset credit" is as defined in the cap-and-trade
						  regulation.
"Artificial island" is a plot of land or other
						  structure constructed on a body of water to support onshore petroleum or
						  natural gas production.
"Asphalt" means a dark brown-to-black cement-like
						  material obtained by petroleum processing and containing bitumens as the
						  predominant component. It includes crude asphalt as well as the following
						  finished products: cements, fluxes, the asphalt content of emulsions (exclusive
						  of water), and petroleum distillates blended with asphalt to make cutback
						  asphalts.
"Asset-controlling supplier" means any entity that owns
						  or operates inter-connected electricity generating facilities or serves as an
						  exclusive marketer for these facilities even though it does not own them, and
						  is assigned a supplier-specific identification number and system emission
						  factor by ARB for the wholesale electricity procured from its system and
						  imported into California. Asset controlling suppliers are considered specified
						  sources.
"Assigned emissions level" means an amount of
						  emissions, in CO2e, assigned to the reporting entity by
						  the Executive Officer under the requirements of section
						  95103(g).
"Associated gas" or "produced gas" means a natural gas
						  that is produced in association with the production of crude oil.
"ASTM" means the American Society of Testing and
						  Materials.
"Atomic hydrogen content" means the mass fraction of
						  all hydrogen atoms in a gas, mixture of gases, or a mixture of other
						  materials.
"Authorized project designee" means an entity
						  authorized by an Offset Project Operator to act on behalf of the Offset Project
						  Operator.
"Aviation gasoline" means a complex mixture of volatile
						  hydrocarbons, with or without additives, suitably blended to be used in
						  aviation reciprocating engines. Specifications can be found in ASTM
						  Specification D910-07a, "
Standard Specification for Aviation
						  Gasolines
" (2007).
"Balancing authority" means the responsible entity that
						  integrates resource plans ahead of time, maintains load-interchange-generation
						  balance within a balancing authority area, and supports interconnection
						  frequency in real time.
"Balancing authority area" means the collection of
						  generation, transmission, and loads within the metered boundaries of a
						  balancing authority. A balancing authority maintains load-resource balance
						  within this area.
"Barrel" means a volume equal to 42 U.S.
						  gallons.
"Basin" means geological provinces as defined by the
						  American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Geologic Note: AAPG-CSD
						  Geological Provinces Code Map: AAPG Bulletin, Prepared by Richard F. Meyer,
						  Laurie G. Wallace, and Fred J. Wagner, Jr., Volume 75, Number 10 (October
						  1991), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Best available data and methods" means ARB methods for
						  emissions calculations set forth in this article where reasonably feasible, or
						  facility fuel use and other facility process data used in conjunction with
						  ARB-provided emission factors and other data, or other industry standard
						  methods for calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
"Bias" means systematic error, resulting in
						  measurements that will be either consistently low or high relative to the
						  reference value.
"Bigeneration unit" means a unit that simultaneously
						  generates electricity and useful thermal energy from the same fuel source but
						  without waste heat recovery. An example of bigeneration includes a boiler
						  generating steam that is split into two streams, and one stream powers a steam
						  turbine to generate electricity, while the other stream is used for other
						  industrial, commercial, heating and cooling purposes that are not in support of
						  or a part of the electricity generation system.
"Biodiesel" means a diesel fuel substitute produced
						  from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meet the registration requirements
						  for fuels and fuel additives established by the U.S. Environmental Protection
						  Agency under section
						  211 of the Clean Air Act. It
						  includes biodiesel that is all of the following:
Registered as a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive
						  under 40 CFR Part 79 ;
A mono-alkyl ester;
Meets American Society for Testing and Material
						  designation ASTM D 6751-08 "
Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel
						  Blendstock (B100) for Middle Distillate Fuels
"
(2008)
, which is hereby incorporated by reference;
Intended for use in engines that are designated to run
						  on conventional diesel fuel; and
Derived from nonpetroleum renewable resources.
"Biofuel production facility" means a production
						  facility that produces one or more of the following biomass-derived
						  transportation fuels: ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, rendered animal
						  fat, or vegetable oil.
"Biogas" means gas that is produced from the breakdown
						  of organic material in the absence of oxygen. Biogas is produced in processes
						  including anaerobic digestion, anaerobic decomposition, and thermochemical
						  decomposition. These processes are applied to biodegradable biomass materials,
						  such as manure, sewage, municipal solid waste, green waste, and waste from
						  energy crops, to produce landfill gas, digester gas, and other forms of
						  biogas.
"Biogenic portions of CO2
						  emissions" means carbon dioxide emissions generated as the result of biomass
						  combustion from combustion units.
"Biomass" means non-fossilized and biodegradable
						  organic material originating from plants, animals and micro-organisms,
						  including products, byproducts, residues and waste from agriculture, forestry
						  and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and biodegradable organic
						  fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including gases and liquids
						  recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and biodegradable organic
						  material. For the purpose of this article, biomass includes both California
						  Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) eligible and non-eligible biomass as defined
						  by the California Energy Commission.
"Biomass-derived fuels" or "biomass fuels" or
						  "biofuels" or "biomass-based fuels" means fuels derived from biomass.
"Biomethane" means biogas that meets pipeline quality
						  natural gas standards.
"Blowdown" means the act of emptying or depressurizing
						  a vessel. This may also refer to the discarded material such as blowdown water
						  from a boiler or cooling tower.
"Blowdown vent stack emissions" mean natural gas and/or
						  CO2 released due to maintenance and/or blowdown
						  operations including compressor blowdown and emergency shut-down (ESD) system
						  testing.
"Boiler" means a closed vessel or arrangement of
						  vessels and tubes, together with a furnace or other heat source, in which water
						  is heated to produce hot water or steam.
"Bone dry short ton" means an amount of material that
						  weighs 2,000 pounds at zero percent moisture content.
"Bottom ash" means ash that collects at the bottom of a
						  combustion chamber.
"Bottoming cycle" means a type of cogeneration system
						  in which the energy input to the system is first applied to a useful thermal
						  energy application or process, and at least some of the reject heat emerging
						  from the application or process is then used for electricity production.
"British thermal unit" or "Btu" means the quantity of
						  heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree
						  Fahrenheit at about 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
"BTEX" means gaseous compounds of benzene, toluene,
						  ethyl benzene, and xylenes.
"Bulk transfer/terminal system" means a fuel
						  distribution system consisting of refineries, pipelines, vessels, and
						  terminals. Fuel storage and blending facilities that are not fed by pipeline or
						  vessel are considered outside the bulk transfer system.
"Busbar" means a power conduit of a facility with
						  electricity generating units that serves as the starting point for the
						  electricity transmission system.
"Business-as-usual scenario" means the set of
						  conditions reasonably expected to occur within the offset project boundary in
						  the absence of the financial incentives provided by offset credits, taking into
						  account all current laws and regulations, as well as current economic and
						  technological trends.
"Butane" or "n-Butane" is a paraffinic straight-chain
						  hydrocarbon with molecular formula
						  C4H10.
"Butylene" or "n-Butylene" means an olefinic
						  straight-chain hydrocarbon with molecular formula
						  C4H8.
"Bypass dust" means discarded dust from the bypass
						  system dedusting unit of suspension preheater, precalciner and grate preheater
						  kilns, consisting of fully calcined kiln feed material.
"Calcination" means the thermal decomposition of
						  carbonate minerals, such as calcium carbonate (the principal mineral in
						  limestone) to form calcium oxide in a cement kiln.
"Calcine" means to heat a substance so that it oxidizes
						  or reduces.
"Calendar year" means the time period from January 1
						  through December 31.
"Calibrated bag" means a flexible, non-elastic,
						  anti-static bag of a calibrated volume that can be affixed to an emitting
						  source such that the emissions inflate the bag to its calibrated volume.
"California balancing authority" means a balancing
						  authority with control over a balancing authority area primarily located in the
						  State of California. A California balancing authority is responsible for the
						  operation of the transmission grid within its metered boundaries which may
						  extend beyond the geographical boundaries of the State of California.
"California Climate Action Registry" or "CCAR" means
						  the entity established pursuant to former Health and Safety Code Section
						  42800
						  et seq.
"California consignee" means the person or entity in
						  California to whom the shipment is to be delivered.
"California Energy Commission" or "CEC" means the
						  California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
"California Independent System Operator" or "CAISO"
						  means the Independent System Operator that serves California EDUs, which
						  operates competitive wholesale electricity markets, manages the reliability of
						  the CAISO-controlled transmission grid, provides open access to transmission,
						  and performs long-term planning. CAISO markets include energy (day-ahead and
						  real-time), ancillary services, congestion revenue rights, and the Energy
						  Imbalance Market (EIM).
"California Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for
						  Oxygenate Blending" or "CARBOB" has the same meaning as defined in title 13 of
						  the California Code of Regulations, section
						  2260(a).
"Cap-and-trade regulation" or "cap-and-trade program"
						  means ARB's regulation establishing the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas
						  Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms set forth in title 17,
						  California Code of Regulations, Chapter 1, Subchapter 10, article 5 (commencing
						  with section
						  95800).
"Carbon dioxide" or "CO2" means
						  the most common of the six primary greenhouse gases, consisting on a molecular
						  level of a single carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.
"Carbon dioxide equivalent" or
						  "CO2 equivalent" or "CO2e" means
						  the number of metric tons of CO2 emissions with the same
						  global warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas when
						  calculated using the individual global warming potentials as specified in the
						  "global warming potential" definition of this article.
"Carbon dioxide supplier" means:
(a) facilities with production process units
						located in the State of California that capture a CO2
						stream for purposes of supplying CO2 to another entity
						or facility or that capture the CO2 stream in order to
						utilize it for geologic sequestration where capture refers to the initial
						separation and removal of CO2 from a manufacturing
						process or any other process,
(b)
						facilities with CO2 production wells located in the
						State of California that extract or produce a CO2 stream
						for purposes of supplying CO2 for commercial
						applications or that extract a CO2 stream in order to
						utilize it for geologic sequestration,
(c) exporters (out of the State of
						California) of bulk CO2 that export
						CO2 for the purpose of geologic sequestration,
(d) exporters (out of the State of
						California) of bulk CO2 that export for purposes other
						than geologic sequestration, and
(e) importers (into the State of California)
						of bulk CO2. This source category is focused on upstream
						supply and is not intended to place duplicative compliance obligations on
						CO2 already covered upstream. The source category does
						not include transportation or distribution of CO2,
						purification, compression or processing of CO2, or
						on-site use of CO2 captured on-site.
"Carbonate" means compounds containing the radical
						  CO3-2. Upon calcination, the
						  carbonate radical decomposes to evolve carbon dioxide
						  (CO2). Common carbonates consumed in the mineral
						  industry include calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or calcite;
						  magnesium carbonate (MgCO3) or magnesite; and
						  calcium-magnesium carbonate
						  (CaMg(CO3)2) or dolomite.
"Carbonate-based raw material" means any of the
						  following materials used in the manufacture of glass: Limestone, dolomite, soda
						  ash, barium carbonate, potassium carbonate, lithium carbonate, and strontium
						  carbonate.
"Catalyst" means a substance added to a chemical
						  reaction, which facilitates or causes the reaction, and is not consumed by the
						  reaction.
"CBOB-summer" or "conventional blendstock for oxygenate
						  blending-summer" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified
						  type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of
						  conventional-summer.
"CBOB-winter" or "conventional blendstock for oxygenate
						  blendingwinter" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified
						  type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of
						  conventionalwinter.
"Cement" means a building material that is produced by
						  heating mixtures of limestone and other minerals or additives at high
						  temperatures in a rotary kiln to form clinker, followed by cooling and grinding
						  with blended additives. Finished cement is a powder used with water, sand and
						  gravel to make concrete and mortar.
"Cement kiln dust" or "CKD" means the fine-grained,
						  solid, highly alkaline waste removed from cement kiln exhaust gas by air
						  pollution control devices. CKD consists of partly calcined kiln feed material
						  and includes all dust from cement kilns and bypass systems including bottom ash
						  and bypass dust.
"Centrifugal compressor" means any equipment that
						  increases the pressure of a process natural gas or CO2
						  by centrifugal action, employing rotating movement of the driven shaft.
"Centrifugal compressor dry seals" mean a series of
						  rings around the compressor shaft where it exits the compressor case that
						  operate mechanically under the opposing forces to prevent natural gas or
						  CO2 from escaping to the atmosphere.
"Centrifugal compressor wet seal degassing vent
						  emissions" means emissions that occur when the high-pressure oil barriers for
						  centrifugal compressors are depressurized to release absorbed natural gas or
						  CO2. High-pressure oil is used as a barrier against
						  escaping gas in centrifugal compressor seals.
"Certification" or "certify" refers to the procedure in
						  40 CFR §
															98.4(e), as required for
						  reports submitted to ARB under this article.
"Chain of title" means the sequence of historical
						  transfers of title to a fuel from the producer to the reporting entity.
"City gate" means a location at which natural gas
						  ownership or control passes from one party to another, neither of which is the
						  ultimate consumer. In this article, in keeping with common practice, the term
						  refers to a point or measuring station at which a local gas distribution
						  utility receives gas from a natural gas pipeline company or transmission
						  system. Meters at the city gate station measure the flow of natural gas into
						  the local distribution company system and typically are used to measure local
						  distribution company system sendout to customers.
"Coal" means all solid fuels classified as anthracite,
						  bituminous, sub-bituminous, or lignite by the American Society for Testing and
						  Materials Designation ASTM D388-05 "Standard Classification of Coals by Rank"
						  (2005), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Coal coke" means a solid residue high in carbon
						  content produced by the destructive distillation of coal at high temperatures
						  in either a byproduct coke oven battery or a non-recovery coke oven
						  battery.
"Cogeneration" means an integrated system that produces
						  electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or
						  heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the
						  original fuel energy. Cogeneration must involve generation of electricity and
						  useful thermal energy and some form of waste heat recovery. Some examples of
						  cogeneration include:
(a) a gas
						turbine or reciprocating engine generating electricity by combusting fuel,
						which then uses a heat recovery unit to capture useful heat from the exhaust
						stream of the turbine or engine;
(b) Steam turbines generating electricity as
						a byproduct of steam generation through a fired boiler;
(c) Cogeneration systems in which the fuel
						input is first applied to a thermal process such as a furnace and at least some
						of the heat rejected from the process is then used for power production. For
						the purposes of this article, a combined-cycle power generation unit, where
						none of the generated thermal energy is used for industrial, commercial, or
						heating and cooling purposes (these purposes exclude any thermal energy
						utilization that is either in support of or a part of the electricity
						generation system), is not considered a cogeneration unit.
"Cogeneration system" means individual cogeneration
						  components including the prime mover (heat engine), generator, heat recovery,
						  and electrical interconnection, configured into an integrated system that
						  provides sequential or simultaneous generation of multiple forms of useful
						  energy (usually mechanical and thermal), at least one form of which the
						  facility consumes on-site or makes available to other users for an end-use
						  other than electricity generation.
"Cogeneration unit" means a unit that produces electric
						  energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or heating and
						  cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the original
						  fuel energy and waste heat recovery.
"Coke (petroleum)" means a solid residue consisting
						  mainly of carbon which results from the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons in
						  processes such as coking and fluid coking. This includes catalyst coke
						  deposited on a catalyst during the refining process which must be burned off in
						  order to regenerate the catalyst.
"Combustion emissions" means greenhouse gas emissions
						  occurring during the exothermic reaction of a fuel with oxygen.
"Combustion source" means a source of emissions
						  resulting from combustion.
"Commercial propane" means liquefied petroleum gas that
						  has a wide mixture of gases that can sustain combustion as defined by ASTM
						  D1835-05 "
Standard Specification for Liquefied Petroleum (LP)
						  Gases
" (2005), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Common control" means having common "operational
						  control" as defined herein.
"Compliance instrument" is as defined in the
						  cap-and-trade regulation.
"Compliance obligation" means the quantity of verified
						  reported emissions or assigned emissions for which an entity must submit
						  compliance instruments to ARB.
"Compliance offset protocol" means an offset protocol
						  adopted by the Board.
"Compliance period" means the period for which the
						  compliance obligation is calculated for covered entities pursuant to the
						  cap-and-trade regulation.
"Component" for the purposes of sections
						  95150 to
						  95157 of this article means each
						  metal to metal joint or seal of non-welded connection separated by a
						  compression gasket, screwed thread (with or without thread sealing compound),
						  metal to metal compression, or fluid barrier through which natural gas or
						  liquid can escape to the atmosphere.
"Compressed natural gas" or "CNG" means natural gas in
						  high-pressure containers that is highly compressed (though not to the point of
						  liquefaction), typically to pressures ranging from 2900 to 3600 psi.
"Compressor" means any machine for raising the pressure
						  of a natural gas or CO2 by drawing in low pressure
						  natural gas and discharging significantly higher pressure natural gas or
						  CO2.
"Condensate" means hydrocarbon and other liquid,
						  including both water and hydrocarbon liquids, separated from natural gas that
						  condenses due to changes in the temperature, pressure, or both, and remains
						  liquid at storage conditions.
"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 verification statement of a potential client's greenhouse gas
						  emissions data report, or the person or body's objectivity in performing
						  verification services is or might be otherwise compromised.
"Consignee" means the same as "California
						  consignee."
"Continuous bleed" means a continuous flow of pneumatic
						  supply natural gas to the process control device (e.g. level control,
						  temperature control, pressure control) where the supply gas pressure is
						  modulated by the process condition, and then flows to the valve controller
						  where the signal is compared with the process set-point to adjust gas pressure
						  in the valve actuator.
"Continuous emissions monitoring system" or "CEMS"
						  means the total equipment required to obtain a continuous measurement of a gas
						  concentration or emission rate from combustion or industrial processes.
"Continuous physical transmission path" means the full
						  transmission path shown in the physical path table of a single NERC e-tag from
						  the first point of receipt closest to the generation source to the final point
						  of delivery closest to the final sink. This is one criterion to establish
						  direct delivery.
"Conventional-summer" means finished gasoline
						  formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which
						  do not meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations
						  promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under
						  40 CFR §
															80.40, but which meet summer RVP standards
						  required under 40 CFR §
															80.27 (July 2011), which is hereby
						  incorporated by reference or as specified by the state.
NOTE: This category excludes conventional gasoline for
						  oxygenate blending (CBOB) as well as other blendstock.
"Conventional wells" mean crude oil or gas wells in
						  producing fields that do not employ hydraulic fracturing to produce
						  commercially viable quantities of crude oil or natural gas.
"Conventional-winter" means finished gasoline
						  formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which
						  do not meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations
						  promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under
						  40 CFR §
															80.40 or the summer RVP standards required
						  under 40 CFR §
															80.27 or as specified by the state.
NOTE: This category excludes conventional blendstock
						  for oxygenate blending (CBOB) as well as other blendstock.
"Correctable errors" means errors identified by the
						  verification team that affect covered emissions data or covered product data in
						  the submitted emissions data report that result from a nonconformance with this
						  article. 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
						  article, are not considered errors and therefore do not require
						  correction.
"Covered emissions" mean all emissions included in a
						  compliance obligation under sections
						  95852 through
						  95852.2 of the cap-and-trade
						  regulation, regardless of whether the cap-and-trade regulation imposes a
						  compliance obligation for the data year.
"Covered product data" means all product data included
						  in the allocation of allowances under sections
						  95870,
						  95890, and
						  95891 of the capand-trade
						  regulation, regardless of whether the cap-and-trade regulation imposes a
						  compliance obligation for the data year.
"Cracking" means the process of breaking down larger
						  molecules into smaller molecules, utilizing catalysts and/or elevated
						  temperatures and pressures.
"Crude oil" means a mixture of hydrocarbons that exists
						  in the liquid phase in natural underground reservoirs and remains liquid at
						  atmospheric pressure after passing through surface separating facilities.
						  Depending upon the characteristics of the crude stream, it may also include any
						  of the following:
Small amounts of hydrocarbons that exist in gaseous
						  phase in natural underground reservoirs but are liquid at atmospheric
						  conditions (temperature and pressure) after being recovered from oil well
						  (casing-head) gas in lease separators and are subsequently commingled with the
						  crude stream without being separately measured. Lease condensate recovered as a
						  liquid from natural gas wells in lease or field separation facilities and later
						  mixed into the crude stream is also included.
Small amounts of non-hydrocarbons, such as sulfur and
						  various metals.
Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar
						  sands, oil sands, gilsonite, and oil shale.
Petroleum products that are received or produced at a
						  refinery and subsequently injected into a crude supply or reservoir by the same
						  refinery owner or operator.
Liquids produced at natural gas processing plants and
						  natural gas fractionating facilities are excluded, unless the produced natural
						  gas liquids are extracted from produced gas, associated gas, and waste gas at a
						  facility and re-injected into barrels of crude oil produced by the same
						  facility. Crude oil is refined to produce a wide array of petroleum products,
						  including heating oils; gasoline, diesel and jet fuels; lubricants; asphalt;
						  ethane, propane, and butane; and many other products used for their energy or
						  chemical content.
"Customer" means a purchaser of electricity not for the
						  purposes of retransmission or resale.
"Customer meter" means natural gas meter, riser, and
						  fittings at residential, commercial, or industrial premise(s).
"Data year" means the calendar year in which emissions
						  occurred.
"De minimis" means those emissions reported for a
						  source or sources that are calculated using alternative methods selected by the
						  operator, subject to the limits specified in section
						  95103(i).
"Dehydrator" means a device in which a liquid absorbent
						  (including desiccant, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, or triethylene
						  glycol) directly contacts a natural gas stream to absorb water vapor.
"Dehydrator vent emissions" means natural gas and
						  CO2 release from a natural gas dehydrator system
						  absorbent (typically glycol) reboiler or regenerator to the atmosphere or a
						  flare, including stripping natural gas and motive natural gas used in absorbent
						  circulation pumps.
"Delayed cooking" means a process by which heavier
						  crude oil fractions are thermally decomposed under conditions of elevated
						  temperature and pressure to produce a mixture of lighter oils and petroleum
						  coke.
"Delivered electricity" means electricity that was
						  distributed from a PSE and received by a PSE or electricity that was generated,
						  transmitted, and consumed.
"Demethanizer" means the natural gas processing unit
						  that separates methane rich residue gas from the heavier hydrocarbons (e.g.,
						  ethane, propane, butane, pentane-plus) in the feed natural gas stream.
"Desiccant" means a material used in solid-bed
						  dehydrators to remove water from raw natural gas by adsorption or absorption.
						  Desiccants include activated alumina, palletized calcium chloride, lithium
						  chloride and granular silica gel material. Wet natural gas is passed through a
						  bed of the granular or pelletized solid adsorbent or absorbent in these
						  dehydrators. As the wet gas contacts the surface of the particles of desiccant
						  material, water is adsorbed on the surface or absorbed and dissolves the
						  surface of these desiccant particles. Passing through the entire desiccant bed,
						  almost all of the water is adsorbed onto or absorbed into the desiccant
						  material, leaving the dry gas to exit the contactor.
"Designated representative" means the person
						  responsible for certifying, signing, and submitting the GHG emissions data
						  report.
"Diesel fuel" means Distillate Fuel No. 1 and
						  Distillate Fuel No. 2, including dyed and nontaxed fuels.
"Direct delivery of electricity" or "directly
						  delivered" means electricity that meets any of the following criteria:
The facility has a first point of interconnection with
						  a California balancing authority;
The facility has a first point of interconnection with
						  distribution facilities used to serve end users within California balancing
						  authority area;
The electricity is scheduled for delivery from the
						  specified source into a California balancing authority via a continuous
						  physical transmission path from interconnection of the facility in the
						  balancing authority in which the facility is located to a sink located in the
						  State of California; or
There is an agreement to dynamically transfer
						  electricity from the facility to a California balancing authority.
"Distillate fuel oil" means a classification for one of
						  the petroleum fractions produced in conventional distillation operations and
						  from crackers and hydrotreating process units. The generic term distillate fuel
						  oil includes kerosene (EIA product code 311), kerosene-type jet fuel (EIA
						  product codes 213, 217, and 218), diesel fuels (Diesel Fuels No. 1, No. 2, and
						  No. 4; EIA product codes 465, 466, and 467), and fuel oils (Fuel Oils No. 1,
						  No. 2, and No. 4; EIA product codes 508, 509, and 510).
"Distillate Fuel No. 1" has a maximum distillation
						  temperature of 550°F at the 90 percent recovery point and a minimum flash
						  point of 100°F and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel No. 1 and
						  Fuel Oil No. 1, but excludes kerosene. This fuel is further subdivided into
						  categories of sulfur content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur
						  (less than or equal to 500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur
						  (less than or equal to 15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 2" has a minimum and maximum
						  distillation temperature of 540°F and 640°F at the 90 percent recovery
						  point, respectively, and includes fuels commonly known as Diesel Fuel No. 2 and
						  Fuel Oil No. 2. This fuel is further subdivided into categories of sulfur
						  content: High Sulfur (greater than 500 ppm), Low Sulfur (less than or equal to
						  500 ppm and greater than 15 ppm), and Ultra Low Sulfur (less than or equal to
						  15 ppm).
"Distillate Fuel No. 4" means a distillate fuel oil
						  with a minimum flash point of 131°F made by blending distillate fuel oil
						  and residual fuel oil.
"Distribution pipeline" means a pipeline that is
						  designated as such by the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration
						  (PHMSA) in 49 CFR §
															192.3.
"District Heating Facility" means a facility that, at a
						  central plant, produces hot water, steam and/or chilled water that is
						  distributed through underground pipes to buildings and facilities connected to
						  the system that are not part of the same facility. District Heating Facility
						  does not include a facility that produces electricity.
"Double-Valve Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B,
						  means a cylinder used for gathering crude oil or condensate samples. The
						  cylinder is provided by a laboratory filled with laboratory grade water which
						  prevents flashing within the cylinder.
"Dry gas" means a natural gas that is produced from gas
						  wells not associated with the production of crude oil.
"E&P Tank" means E&P Tank Version 2.0 for
						  Windows software, copyright 1996-1999 by the American Petroleum Institute and
						  the Gas Research Institute (published 2000).
"EIA" means the Energy Information Administration. The
						  Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a statistical agency of the United
						  States Department of Energy.
"Electric arc furnace" or "EAF" means a furnace that
						  produces molten steel and heats the charge materials with electric arcs from
						  carbon electrodes. Furnaces that continuously feed direct-reduced iron ore
						  pellets as the primary source of iron are not affected facilities within the
						  scope of this definition.
"Electrical Distribution Utility(ies)" means an entity
						  that owns and/or operates an electrical distribution system, including:
1) a public utility as defined in the Public
						Utilities Code section
						216
						(referred to as an Investor Owned Utility or IOU); or
2) a local publicly owned electric utility
						(POU) as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						224.3;
						or
3) an Electrical Cooperative
						(COOP) as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						2776,
						that provides electricity to retail end users in California.
"Electric Power Entity" or "EPE" means those entities
						  specified in section
						  95101(d) of this
						  article, including electricity importers and exporters; retail providers,
						  including multi-jurisdictional retail providers; the California Department of
						  Water Resources (DWR); the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA); and the
						  Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).
"Electricity exporter" means electric power entities
						  that deliver exported electricity. The entity that exports electricity is
						  identified on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last
						  segment of the tag's physical path, with the point of receipt located inside
						  the State of California and the point of delivery located outside the State of
						  California. Electricity exporters include Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Entity
						  Scheduling Coordinators serving the EIM market that can result in exports from
						  California.
"Electricity generating facility" means a facility that
						  generates electricity and includes one or more generating units at the same
						  location.
"Electricity generation provider" means a provider of
						  the energy or generation component of electricity services, as distinguished
						  from the provider of transmission and/or distribution service that provides the
						  wires for the transport of electricity. Electricity generation providers may
						  include electricity service providers, community choice aggregators,
						  cogeneration facilities, and other entities in addition to electrical
						  distribution utilities that may provide both generation and
						  transmission/distribution service.
"Electricity generating unit" or "EGU" means any
						  combination of physically connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s),
						  combustion turbine(s), or other prime mover(s) operated together to produce
						  electric power. An EGU may include a unit that generate electricity from fuel
						  combustion or from other renewable energy sources, such as solar and
						  wind.
"Electricity importers" deliver imported electricity.
						  For electricity that is scheduled with a NERC e-Tag to a final point of
						  delivery inside the State of California, the electricity importer is identified
						  on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last segment of
						  the tag's physical path with the point of receipt located outside the State of
						  California and the point of delivery located inside the State of California.
						  For facilities physically located outside the State of California with the
						  first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's
						  transmission and distribution system when the electricity is not scheduled on a
						  NERC e-Tag, the importer is the facility operator or scheduling coordinator.
						  Federal and state agencies are subject to the regulatory authority of ARB under
						  this article and include Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Bonneville
						  Power Administration (BPA), and California Department of Water Resources (DWR).
						  For electricity that is imported into California through the CAISO Energy
						  Imbalance Market, the electricity importer is identified as the EIM
						  Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators and EIM Purchasers serving the
						  EIM market whose transactions result in electricity imports into
						  California.
"Electricity sold into the CAISO markets" means
						  electricity sold into California Independent System Operator (CAISO), markets,
						  including but not limited to the day-ahead market, real time market, integrated
						  forward market, and energy imbalance market. Transactions excluded as CAISO
						  sales pursuant to section
						  11.29(a)(iii) of
						  the CAISO Fifth Replacement Tariff dated May 1, 2014 do not fall under this
						  definition.
"Electricity transaction" means the purchase, sale,
						  import, export or exchange of electric power.
"Electricity wheeled through California" or "wheeled
						  electricity" means electricity that is generated outside the State of
						  California and delivered into California with the final point of delivery
						  outside California. Electricity wheeled through California is documented on a
						  single NERC e-Tag showing the first point of receipt located outside the State
						  of California, an intermediate point of delivery located inside the State of
						  California, and the final point of delivery located outside the State of
						  California.
"Eligible renewable energy resource" is as defined in
						  section 95802(a) of the
						  cap-and-trade regulation.
"Emission factor" means a unique value for determining
						  an amount of a greenhouse gas emitted for a given quantity of activity (e.g.,
						  metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted per barrel of fossil fuel burned.)
"Emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases into
						  the atmosphere from sources and processes in a facility, including from the
						  combustion of transportation fuels such as natural gas, petroleum products, and
						  natural gas liquids.
"Emissions data report" or "greenhouse gas emissions
						  data report" or "report" means the report prepared by an operator or supplier
						  each year and submitted by electronic means to ARB that provides the
						  information required by this article. The emissions data report is for the
						  submission of required data for the calendar year prior to the year in which
						  the report is due. For example, a 2013 emissions data report would cover
						  emissions and product data for the 2013 calendar year and would be reported in
						  2014.
"Emissions data verification statement" means the final
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting
						  entity's covered emissions data in their emissions data report is free of
						  material misstatement, and whether the emissions data conforms to the
						  requirements of this article.
"Emulsion" means a mixture of water, crude oil,
						  associated gas, and other components from the oil extraction process that is
						  transferred from an existing platform that is permanently affixed to the ocean
						  floor and that is located outside the distance specified in the "offshore"
						  definition of this article, to an onshore petroleum and natural gas production
						  facility. For purposes of Appendix B, emulsion means a mixture of crude oil,
						  condensate, or produced water in any proportion.
"End user" means a final purchaser of an energy
						  product, such as electricity, thermal energy, or natural gas not for the
						  purposes of retransmission or resale. In the context of natural gas
						  consumption, an "end user" is the point to which natural gas is delivered for
						  consumption.
"Energy Imbalance Market" or "EIM" means the operation
						  of the CAISO's real-time market to manage transmission congestion and optimize
						  procurement of energy to balance supply and demand for the combined CAISO and
						  EIM footprint.
"Energy Imbalance Market Purchaser" or "EIM Purchaser"
						  means, for a given data year an electrical distribution utility that directly
						  or indirectly purchases any electricity through the EIM to serve California
						  load in the data year, and receives allowance allocation in the subsequent year
						  pursuant to section
						  95892 of the Cap-and-Trade
						  Regulation. An electrical distribution utility is considered to have purchased
						  electricity through the EIM in a given data year if, during any 5-minute
						  interval in the data year, the electrical distribution utility serves
						  California load through imbalance energy purchased directly from the CAISO
						  market. An electrical distribution utility is considered to have purchased
						  electricity through the EIM in a given data year if, during any 5-minute
						  interval in the data year, the electrical distribution utility participates in
						  CAISO markets indirectly through a CAISO scheduling coordinator that meets any
						  part of the electrical distribution utility's California load with imbalance
						  energy.
"Energy Imbalance Market, Participating Resource
						  Scheduling Coordinator" or "EIM" Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator
						  means the participating resource owner or operator, or a third-party designated
						  by the resource owner or operator that is certified by the CAISO and enters
						  into the pro forma EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinator Agreement,
						  under which it is responsible for meeting the requirements specified in the
						  CAISO Tariff on behalf of the resource owner or operator.
"Enforceable" means the authority for ARB to hold a
						  particular party liable and to take appropriate action if any of the provisions
						  of this article are violated.
"Engineering estimation," for the purposes of sections
						  95150 to
						  95157 of this article, means an
						  estimate of emissions based on engineering principles applied to measured
						  and/or approximated physical parameters such as dimensions of containment,
						  actual pressures, actual temperatures, and compositions.
"Enhanced oil recovery" or "EOR" means the use of
						  certain methods such as steam (thermal EOR), water flooding or gas injection
						  into existing wells to increase the recovery of crude oil from a reservoir. In
						  the context of this rule, EOR also applies to injection of critical phase
						  carbon dioxide into a crude oil reservoir to enhance the recovery of
						  oil.
"Enterer" means an entity that imports into California
						  motor vehicle fuel, diesel fuel, fuel ethanol, biodiesel, non-exempt
						  biomass-derived fuel or renewable fuel and who is the importer of record under
						  federal customs law or the owner of fuel upon import into California if the
						  fuel is not subject to federal customs law. Only enterers that import the fuels
						  specified in this definition outside the bulk transfer/terminal system are
						  subject to reporting under the regulation.
"Entity" means a person, firm, association,
						  organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability
						  company, company, or government agency.
"Equipment" means any stationary article, machine, or
						  other contrivance, or combination thereof, which may cause the issuance or
						  control the issuance of air contaminants; equipment shall not mean portable
						  equipment, tactical support equipment, or electricity generators designated as
						  backup generators in a permit issued by an air pollution control district or
						  air quality management district.
"Equipment leak" means those emissions which could not
						  reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other
						  functionally-equivalent opening.
"Equipment leak detection" means the process of
						  identifying emissions from equipment, components, and other point
						  sources.
"Ethane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular
						  formula C2H6.
"Ethanol" is an anhydrous alcohol with molecular
						  formula C2H5OH.
"Ethylene" is an olefinic hydrocarbon with molecular
						  formula C2H4.
"Exchange agreement" means a commitment between
						  electricity market participants to swap energy for energy. Exchange
						  transactions do not involve transfers of payment or receipts of money for the
						  full market value of the energy being exchanged, but may include payment for
						  net differences due to market price differences between the two parts of the
						  transaction or to settle minor imbalances.
"Exclusive marketer" means a marketer that has
						  exclusive rights to market electricity for a generating facility or group of
						  generating facilities.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the
						  California Air Resources Board, or his or her delegate.
"Exported electricity" means electricity generated
						  inside the State of California and delivered to serve load located outside the
						  State of California. This includes electricity delivered from a first point of
						  receipt inside California, to the first point of delivery outside California,
						  with a final point of delivery outside the State of California. Exported
						  electricity delivered across balancing authority areas is documented on NERC
						  e-Tags with the first point of receipt located inside the State of California
						  and the final point of delivery located outside the State of California.
						  Exported electricity does not include electricity generated inside the State of
						  California then transmitted outside of California, but with a final point of
						  delivery inside the State of California. Exported electricity does not include
						  electricity generated inside the State of California that is allocated to serve
						  the California retail customers of a multi-jurisdictional retail provider,
						  consistent with a cost allocation methodology approved by the California Public
						  Utilities Commission and the utility regulatory commission of at least one
						  additional state in which the multi-jurisdictional retail provider provides
						  retail electric service.
"External combustion" means fired combustion in which
						  the flame and products are separated from contact with the process fluid to
						  which the energy is delivered. Process fluids may be air, hot water, or
						  hydrocarbons. External combustion equipment may include fired heaters,
						  industrial boilers, and commercial and domestic combustion units.
"Facility," unless otherwise specified in relation to
						  natural gas distribution facilities, gas processing facilities, and onshore
						  petroleum and natural gas production facilities as defined in section
						  95102(a), means
						  any physical property, plant, building, structure, source, or stationary
						  equipment located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties in actual
						  physical contact or separated solely by a public roadway or other public
						  right-of-way and under common ownership or common control, that emits or may
						  emit any greenhouse gas. Operators of military installations may classify such
						  installations as more than a single facility based on distinct and independent
						  functional groupings within contiguous military properties.
"Facility," with respect to natural gas distribution
						  for the purposes of sections
						  95150 to
						  95158 of this article, means the
						  collection of all distribution pipelines and metering-regulating stations that
						  are operated by a local distribution company (LDC) within the State of
						  California that is regulated as a separate operating company by a public
						  utility commission or that are operated as an independent municipally-owned
						  distribution system.
"Facility," with respect to onshore petroleum and
						  natural gas production for the purposes of sections
						  95150 to
						  95158 of this article, means all
						  petroleum and natural gas equipment on a well-pad, associated with a well pad
						  or to which emulsion is transferred and CO2 EOR
						  operations that are under common ownership or common control including leased,
						  rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production owner or operator and that are located in a single basin as defined
						  in section
						  95102(a). When a
						  commonly owned cogeneration plant is within the basin, the cogeneration plant
						  is only considered part of the onshore petroleum and natural gas production
						  facility if the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility operator
						  or owner has a greater than fifty percent ownership share in the cogeneration
						  plant. Where a person or entity owns or operates more than one well in a basin,
						  then all onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment associated with
						  all wells that the person or entity owns or operates in the basin would be
						  considered one facility. Onshore natural gas processing equipment as defined in
						  section 95150(a)(3) that
						  is owned and/or operated by the facility owner/operator and located within the
						  same basin, is considered "associated with a well pad" and is included with the
						  onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility, unless such equipment is
						  required to be reported as part of a separate onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  processing facility.
"Facility," with respect to onshore natural gas
						  processing for the purposes of sections
						  95150 to
						  95158 of this article, means
						  equipment associated with the separation of natural gas liquids (NGLs) or
						  non-methane gases from produced natural gas, including separation of sulfur and
						  carbon dioxide, that processes an annual average throughput of 25 MMscf per day
						  or greater, or whose owner/operator does not also own/operate a production
						  facility in the same basin.
"Farm taps" are pressure regulation stations that
						  deliver gas directly from transmission pipelines to rural customers. In some
						  cases a nearby LDC may handle the billing of the gas to the customer(s).
"Feedstock" means the raw material supplied to a
						  process.
"Field," in the context of oil and gas systems, means
						  oil and gas fields identified in the United States as defined by the Energy
						  Information Administration Oil and Gas Field Code Master List 2008, DOE/EIA
						  0370(08), January 2009, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Field accuracy assessment" means a test, check, or
						  engineering analysis intended to confirm that a flow meter or other mass or
						  volume measurement device is operating within an acceptable accuracy range. A
						  field accuracy assessment should be conducted in a manner that does not
						  interrupt operations or require removal of the meter or require primary element
						  inspection. The selected method for field accuracy assessment will vary based
						  on meter type and piping system design, and may be performed by the facility
						  operator, a third party meter servicing firm, or the original equipment
						  manufacturer.
"Final point of delivery" means the sink specified on
						  the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC
						  Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as
						  may be the case within a balancing authority, the final point of delivery is
						  the location of the load. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the final
						  point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.
"First deliverer of electricity," or "first deliverer"
						  means the owner or operator of an electricity generating facility in
						  California, an electricity importer, or an EIM Purchaser.
"First point of delivery in California" means the first
						  defined point on the transmission system located inside California at which
						  imported electricity and electricity wheeled through California may be
						  measured, consistent with defined points that have been established through the
						  NERC Registry.
"First point of receipt" means the generation source
						  specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through
						  the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity
						  deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the first point of
						  receipt is the location of the individual generating facility or unit, or group
						  of generating facilities or units. Imported electricity and wheeled electricity
						  are disaggregated by the first point of receipt on the NERC e-Tag.
"Flare" means a combustion device, whether at ground
						  level or elevated, that uses an open flame to burn combustible gases with
						  combustion air provided by uncontrolled ambient air around the flame.
"Flare combustion" means unburned hydrocarbons
						  including CH4, CO2, and
						  N2O emissions resulting from the incomplete combustion
						  of gas in flares.
"Flare combustion efficiency" means the fraction of
						  liquid and gases sent to the flare, on a volume or mole basis, that is
						  combusted at the flare burner tip.
"Flare stack emissions" means
						  CO2 and N2O from partial
						  combustion of hydrocarbon gas sent to a flare plus CH4
						  emissions resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon gas in the
						  flare.
"Flash Analysis," for purposes of Appendix B, means
						  laboratory methodologies for measuring the volume and composition of gases
						  released from liquids, including the molecular weight of the total gaseous
						  sample, the weight percent of individual compounds, and a Gas-Oil Ratio or
						  Gas-Water Ratio required to calculate the specified emission rates as described
						  in Section
						  10 of Appendix B.
"Flash point" of a volatile liquid is the lowest
						  temperature at which it can vaporize to form an ignitable mixture in
						  air.
"Flashing," for purposes of Appendix B, means the
						  release of hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide from liquid to surrounding air when
						  the liquid changes temperature and pressure, also known as phase change.
"Floating-Piston Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B,
						  means a cylinder used for gathering produced water. The cylinder contains an
						  internal piston controlled by gas pressure. The piston prevents sample liquid
						  from flashing within the sampling cylinder and provides a means of extracting
						  the sample liquid.
"Flow meter" means a measurement device consisting of
						  one or more individual components that is designed to measure the bulk fluid
						  movement of liquid or gas through a piped system at a designated point. Bulk
						  fluid movement can be measured with a variety of devices in units of mass flow
						  or volume.
"Flow monitor" means a component of the continuous
						  emission monitoring system that measures the volumetric flow of exhaust
						  gas.
"Flowback Fluid," for purposes of Appendix B, means
						  chemicals, fluids, or propellants injected underground under pressure to
						  stimulate or hydraulically fracture a crude oil or natural gas well or
						  reservoir and that flows back to the surface as a fluid after injection is
						  completed.
"Fluid catalytic cracking unit" or "FCCU" means a
						  process unit in a refinery in which petroleum derivative feedstock is charged
						  and fractured into smaller molecules in the presence of a catalyst, or reacts
						  with a contact material to improve feedstock quality for additional processing,
						  and in which the catalyst or contact material is regenerated by burning off
						  coke and other deposits. The unit includes, but is not limited to, the riser,
						  reactor, regenerator, air blowers, spent catalyst, and all equipment for
						  controlling air pollutant emissions and recovering heat.
"Fluid coking" means a thermal cracking process
						  utilizing the fluidized-solids technique to remove carbon (coke) for continuous
						  conversion of heavy, low-grade oils into lighter products.
"Fluorinated greenhouse gas" means sulfur hexafluoride
						  (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride
						  (NF3), and any fluorocarbon except for controlled
						  substances as defined at 40 CFR Part 82 , subpart A, (May 1995), which is
						  hereby incorporated by reference, and substances with vapor pressures of less
						  than 1 mm of Hg absolute at 25°C. With these exceptions, "fluorinated GHG"
						  includes any hydrofluorocarbon, any perfluorocarbon, any fully fluorinated
						  linear, branched or cyclic alkane, ether, tertiary amine or aminoether, any
						  perfluoropolyether, and any hydrofluoropolyether.
"Forced extraction of natural gas liquids" means
						  removal of ethane or higher carbon number hydrocarbons existing in the vapor
						  phase in natural gas, by removing ethane or heavier hydrocarbons derived from
						  natural gas into natural gas liquids by means of a forced extraction process.
						  Forced extraction processes include refrigeration, absorption (lean oil),
						  cryogenic expander, and combinations of these processes. Forced extraction does
						  not include in and of itself, natural gas dehydration, or the collection or
						  gravity separation of water or hydrocarbon liquids from natural gas at ambient
						  temperatures, or the condensation of water or hydrocarbon liquids through
						  passive reduction in pressure or temperature, or portable dewpoint suppression
						  skids.
"Forest-derived wood and wood waste" means wood
						  harvested pursuant to the California Forest Practice Rule, Title 14, California
						  Code of Regulations, Chapters 4, 4.5, and 10 or pursuant to the National
						  Environmental Policy Act.
"Fossil fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or
						  any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material.
"Fractionates" means the process of separating natural
						  gas liquids into their constituent liquid products.
"Fractionator" means plants that produce fractionated
						  natural gas liquids (NGLs) extracted from produced natural gas and separate the
						  NGLs individual component products: ethane, propane, butanes and pentane-plus
						  (C5+). Plants that only process natural gas but do not fractionate NGLs further
						  into component products are not considered fractionators. Some fractionators do
						  not process production gas, but instead fractionate bulk NGLs received from
						  natural gas processors. Some fractionators both process natural gas and
						  fractionate bulk NGLs received from other plants.
"Fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous combustible
						  material. Volatile organic compounds burned in destruction devices are not
						  fuels unless they can sustain combustion without use of a pilot fuel, and such
						  destruction does not result in a commercially useful end product.
"Fuel analytical data" means data collected about fuel
						  usage (including mass, volume, and flow rate) and fuel characteristics
						  (including heating value, carbon content, and molecular weight) to support
						  emissions calculation.
"Fuel cell" means a device that converts the chemical
						  energy of a fuel and an oxidant directly into electrical energy without using
						  combustion. Fuel cells require a continuous source of fuel and oxidant to
						  operate.
"Fuel characteristic data" means, for the purpose of
						  this article, properties of a fuel used for calculating GHG emissions including
						  carbon content, high heat value, and molecular weight.
"Fuel combusting electricity generating or cogeneration
						  unit" means an electricity generating unit, which may include a cogeneration or
						  bigeneration unit, that produces electricity from fuel combustion.
"Fuel ethanol" means ethanol that meets ASTM D-4806-08
						  "
Standard Specification for Denatured Fuel Ethanol for Blending with
						  Gasolines for Use as Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel
" (2008),
						  specifications, which is hereby incorporated by reference, for blending with
						  gasolines for use as automotive spark-ignition engine fuel.
"Fuel flowmeter system" means a monitoring system which
						  provides a continuous record of the flow rate of fuel oil or gaseous fuel. A
						  fuel flowmeter system consists of one or more fuel flowmeter components, all
						  necessary auxiliary components (e.g., transmitters, transducers, etc.), and a
						  data acquisition and handling system (DAHS).
"Fuel production facility" means a facility, other than
						  a refinery, in which motor vehicle fuel, diesel fuel or biomass-based fuel is
						  produced.
"Fuel supplier" means a supplier of petroleum products,
						  a supplier of biomass-derived transportation fuels, a supplier of natural gas
						  including operators of interstate and intrastate pipelines, a supplier of
						  liquefied natural gas, or a supplier of liquid petroleum gas as specified in
						  this article.
"Fuel transaction" means the record of the exchange of
						  fuel possession, ownership, or title from one entity to another.
"Fugitive emissions" means those emissions which are
						  unintentional and could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or
						  other functionally-equivalent opening.
"Fugitive emissions detection" means the process of
						  identifying emissions from equipment, components, and other point
						  sources.
"Fugitive equipment leak" means the unintended or
						  incidental emissions of greenhouse gases from the production, transmission,
						  processing, storage, use or transportation of fossil fuels, greenhouse gases,
						  or other equipment.
"Fugitive source" means a source of fugitive
						  emissions.
"Full verification" means all verification services as
						  provided in section
						  95131.
"Gas" means the state of matter distinguished from the
						  solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively
						  great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the
						  ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed
						  uniformly throughout any container.
"Gas conditions" means the actual temperature, volume,
						  and pressure of a gas sample.
"Gas gathering/booster stations" means centralized
						  stations where produced natural gas from individual wells is co-mingled,
						  compressed for transport to processing plants, transmission and distribution
						  systems, and other gathering/booster stations which co-mingle gas from multiple
						  production gathering/booster stations. Such stations may include gas
						  dehydration, gravity separation of liquids (both hydrocarbon and water),
						  pipeline pig launchers and receivers, and gas powered pneumatic devices.
"Gas-to-oil ratio" or "GOR" means the ratio of gas
						  produced from a barrel of crude oil or condensate when cooling and
						  depressurizing these liquids to standard conditions, expressed in terms of
						  standard cubic feet of gas per barrel of oil. Where used in this article, the
						  terms "Total gas-to-oil ratio" and "Total GOR" refer to the ratio of the total
						  volume of produced associated gas to the total volume of produced crude oil
						  from one or more wells, including any associated gas that is separated and
						  either recovered or emitted to the atmosphere prior to the collection of
						  samples for a Flash Analysis.
"Gas-to-water ratio" or "GWR" means the ratio of gas
						  produced from a barrel of produced water when cooling and depressurizing
						  produced water to standard conditions, expressed in terms of standard cubic
						  feet of gas per barrel of water.
"Gas well" means a well completed for production of
						  natural gas from one or more gas zones or reservoirs. Such wells contain no
						  completions for the production of crude oil.
"Generated electricity" means electricity generated by
						  an electricity generating unit at the reporting facility. Generated electricity
						  does not include any electricity that is generated outside the facility and
						  delivered into the facility with final destination outside of the
						  facility.
"Generated energy" means electricity or thermal energy
						  generated by the electricity generating, cogeneration, or bigeneration units
						  included in the reporting facility.
"Generating unit" means any combination of physically
						  connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s), combustion turbine(s), or other
						  prime mover(s) operated together to produce electric power.
"Generation providing entity" or "GPE" means a facility
						  or generating unit operator, full or partial owner, party to a contract for a
						  fixed percentage of net generation from the facility or generating unit, party
						  to a tolling agreement with the owner, or exclusive marketer recognized by ARB
						  that is either the electricity importer or exporter with prevailing rights to
						  claim electricity from the specified source.
"Geologic sequestration" means the process of injecting
						  CO2 captured from an emissions source into deep subsurface rock formations for
						  permanent storage.
"Geothermal" means heat or other associated energy
						  derived from the natural heat of the earth.
"Global warming potential" or "GWP" means the ratio of
						  the time-integrated radiative forcing from the instantaneous release of one
						  kilogram of a trace substance relative to that of one kilogram of a reference
						  gas, i.e., CO2. For 2011 through 2020 data years, the
						  GWP values used for emissions estimation and reporting are as specified in
						  Table A-1 to Subpart A of Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 98
						  as published to the Federal Register on 10/30/2009. For data years 2021 and
						  onward, the GWP values are as specified in the Table A-1 to Subpart A of Title
						  40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 98 as published to the CFR on 12/11/2014,
						  which is hereby incorporated by reference.
"Graduated Cylinder," for purposes of Appendix B, means
						  a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume, such as a glass container
						  (cup or cylinder or flask) which has sides marked with or divided into
						  amounts.
"Greenhouse gas," or "GHG" means carbon dioxide
						  (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous
						  oxide (N2O), sulfur hexafluoride
						  (SF6), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons
						  (PFCs), and other fluorinated greenhouse gases as defined in this
						  section.
"Greenhouse gas emission reduction" or "GHG emission
						  reduction" or "greenhouse gas reduction" or "GHG reduction" means a calculated
						  decrease in GHG emissions relative to a project baseline over a specified
						  period of time.
"Greenhouse gas removal enhancement" or "GHG removal"
						  means the calculated total mass of a GHG removed, relative to a project
						  baseline, from the atmosphere over a specified period of time.
"Greenhouse gas reservoir" or "GHG reservoir" means a
						  physical unit or component of the biosphere, geosphere or hydrosphere with the
						  capability to store, accumulate, or release of a GHG removed from the
						  atmosphere by a GHG sink or a GHG captured from a GHG emission source.
"Greenhouse gas sink" or "GHG sink" means a physical
						  unit or process that removes a GHG from the atmosphere.
"Grid" or "electric power grid" means a system of
						  synchronized power providers and consumers connected by transmission and
						  distribution lines and operated by one or more control centers.
"Grid-dedicated facility" means an electricity
						  generating facility in which all net power generated is destined for
						  distribution on the grid through retail providers or electricity marketers,
						  ultimately serving wholesale or retail customers of the grid.
"Gross generation" or "gross power generated" means the
						  total electrical output of the generating facility or unit, expressed in
						  megawatt hours (MWh) per year.
"HD-5" or "special duty propane" means a consumer grade
						  of liquefied petroleum gas containing a minimum of 90% propane, a maximum of 5%
						  propylene, and a maximum of 2.5% butane as specified in ASTM D1835-05.
"HD-10" means the fuel that meets the specifications
						  for propane used in transportation fuel found in Title 13, California Code of
						  Regulations, section
						  2292.6.
"Heat input rate" means the product (expressed in
						  MMBtu/hr) of the gross calorific value of the fuel (expressed in MMBtu/mass of
						  fuel) and the fuel feed rate into the combustion device (expressed in mass of
						  fuel/hr) and does not include the heat derived from preheated combustion air,
						  recirculated flue gases, or exhaust from other sources.
"Heavy crude oil" or "heavy crude" means a category of
						  crude oil characterized by relatively high viscosity, a higher
						  carbon-to-hydrogen ratio, and a relatively higher density having an API gravity
						  of less than 20.
"High-bleed pneumatic devices" means automatic,
						  continuous or intermittent bleed flow control devices powered by pressurized
						  natural gas and used for maintaining a process condition such as liquid level,
						  pressure, delta-pressure and temperature. Part of the gas power stream that is
						  regulated by the process condition flows to a valve actuator controller where
						  it vents continuously or intermittently (bleeds) to the atmosphere at a rate in
						  excess of 6 standard cubic feet per hour.
"High heat value" or "HHV" means the high or gross heat
						  content of the fuel with the heat of vaporization included. The water vapor is
						  assumed to be in a liquid state.
"Horizontal well" means a well bore that has a planned
						  deviation from primarily vertical to primarily horizontal inclination or
						  declination tracking in parallel with and through the target formation.
"Hydrocarbons" means chemical compounds containing
						  predominantly carbon and hydrogen.
"Hydrofluorocarbons" or "HFCs" means a class of GHGs
						  consisting of hydrogen, fluorine, and carbon.
"Hydrogen" means diatomic molecular hydrogen, the
						  lightest of all gases.
"Hydrogen plant" means a facility that produces
						  hydrogen with steam hydrocarbon reforming, partial oxidation of hydrocarbons,
						  or other processes.
"Imported electricity" means electricity generated
						  outside the State of California and delivered to serve load located inside the
						  State of California. Imported electricity includes electricity delivered across
						  balancing authority areas from a first point of receipt located outside the
						  State of California, to the first point of delivery located inside the State of
						  California, having a final point of delivery in California. Imported
						  electricity includes electricity imported into California over a
						  multi-jurisdictional retail provider's transmission and distribution system, or
						  electricity imported into the State of California from a facility or unit
						  physically located outside the State of California with the first point of
						  interconnection to a California balancing authority's transmission and
						  distribution system. Imported electricity includes electricity that is a result
						  of cogeneration located outside the State of California. Imported electricity
						  does not include electricity wheeled through California, defined pursuant to
						  this section. Imported electricity does not include electricity imported into
						  the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority area to
						  serve retail customers that are located within the CAISO balancing authority
						  area, but outside the State of California. Imported Electricity does not
						  include electricity imported into California by an Independent System Operator
						  to obtain or provide emergency assistance under applicable emergency
						  preparedness and operations reliability standards of the North American
						  Electric Reliability Corporation or Western Electricity Coordinating Council.
						  Imported electricity shall include Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) dispatches
						  designated by the CAISO's optimization model and reported by the CAISO to EIM
						  Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators as electricity imported to serve
						  retail customers load that are located within the State of California.
"Importer of fuel" means an entity that imports fuel
						  into California and who is the importer of record under federal customs law.
						  For imported fuel not subject to federal customs law, the "importer of fuel" is
						  the owner of the fuel upon its entering into California if the eventual
						  transfer of ownership of the product to an end user or marketer located in
						  California occurs at a location inside California. However, where the transfer
						  of ownership of the fuel to a California end user or marketer occurs at a
						  location outside of California, the "importer of fuel" is the producer,
						  marketer, or distributor that is the seller of the fuel to the end user or
						  marketer located inside California. Pursuant to section
						  95122, only importers of liquefied
						  petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas are subject to
						  reporting as an importer of fuel.
"Importer of record" means the owner or purchaser of
						  the goods that are imported into California.
"Independently operated and sited
						  cogeneration/bigeneration facility" means a cogeneration or bigeneration
						  facility that is not located on the same facility footprint as its thermal host
						  and has different operational control and different ownership than the thermal
						  host.
"Independently operated cogeneration/bigeneration
						  facility co-located with the thermal host" means a cogeneration or bigeneration
						  facility that is located on the same property footprint as its thermal host but
						  has different operational control and different ownership than the thermal
						  host.
"Independent reviewer" has the same meaning as "lead
						  verifier independent reviewer."
"Industrial/institutional/commercial facility with
						  electricity generation capacity" means a facility whose primary business is not
						  electricity generation and includes one or more electricity generating,
						  cogeneration, or bigeneration units.
"Intermittent bleed pneumatic devices" means automated
						  flow control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for
						  automatically maintaining a process condition such as liquid level, pressure,
						  delta-pressure and temperature. These are snap-acting or throttling devices
						  that discharge all or a portion of the full volume of the actuator
						  intermittently when control action is necessary, but do not bleed continuously.
						  Intermittent bleed devices which bleed at a cumulative rate of 6 standard cubic
						  feet per hour or greater are considered high bleed devices for the purposes of
						  this regulation.
"Internal combustion" means the combustion of a fuel
						  that occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber. In an
						  internal combustion engine the expansion of the high-temperature and
						  high-pressure gases produced by combustion applies direct force to a component
						  of the engine, such as pistons, turbine blades, or a nozzle. This force moves
						  the component over a distance, generating useful mechanical energy. Internal
						  combustion equipment may include gasoline and diesel industrial engines,
						  natural gas-fired reciprocating engines, and gas turbines.
"Interstate pipeline" means any entity that owns or
						  operates a natural gas pipeline delivering natural gas to consumers in the
						  state and is subject to rate regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory
						  Commission.
"Intrastate pipeline" means any pipeline or piping
						  system wholly within the State of California that is delivering natural gas to
						  end-users and is not regulated as a public utility gas corporation by the
						  California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), is not a publicly-owned natural
						  gas utility, and is not regulated as an interstate pipeline by the Federal
						  Energy Regulatory Commission. For purposes of this article, only intrastate
						  pipeline operators that physically deliver gas to end users in California are
						  subject to reporting under this article. This definition includes onshore
						  petroleum and natural gas production facilities and natural gas processing
						  facilities, as defined by sections
						  95150(a)(2)-(3)
						  of this article, that deliver pipeline and/or non-pipeline quality natural gas
						  to one or more end users. Facility operators that operate an interconnection
						  pipeline that connects their facility to an interstate pipeline, or that share
						  an interconnection pipeline to an interstate pipeline with other nearby
						  facilities, are not considered intrastate pipeline operators. Facilities that
						  receive gas from an upstream LDC and redeliver a portion of the gas to one or
						  more adjacent facilities are not considered intrastate pipelines.
"Inventory position" means a contractual agreement with
						  the terminal operator for the use of the storage facilities and terminaling
						  services for the fuel.
"ISO" means the International Organization for
						  Standardization.
"Isobutane" is a paraffinic branch chain hydrocarbon
						  with molecular formula
						  C4H10.
"Isobutylene" is an olefinic branch chain hydrocarbon
						  with molecular formula
						  C4H8.
"Isopentane" is the methylbutane or 2-methylbutane,
						  branched chain, isomer of C5H12
						  under the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
						  nomenclature.
"Joint powers authority" means a public agency that is
						  formed and created pursuant to the provisions of Government Code sections
						  6500. et
						  seq.
"Jurisdiction" means U.S. state or Canadian province.
						  For purposes of this article, "U.S. state" means U.S. State, the District of
						  Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and
						  American Samoa and includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
						  For purposes of this article, "province" means any Canadian province or
						  territory.
"Kerosene" is a light petroleum distillate with a
						  maximum distillation temperature of 400°F at the 10-percent recovery point,
						  a final maximum boiling point of 572°F, a minimum flash point of 100°F,
						  and a maximum freezing point of -22°F. Included are No. 1-K and No. 2-K,
						  distinguished by maximum sulfur content (0.04 and 0.30 percent of total mass,
						  respectively), as well as all other grades of kerosene called range or stove
						  oil. "Kerosene" does not include kerosene-type jet fuel.
"Kerosene-type jet fuel" means a kerosene-based product
						  used in commercial and military turbojet and turboprop aircraft. The product
						  has a maximum distillation temperature of 400 °F at the 10 percent recovery
						  point and a final maximum boiling point of 572 °F. Included are Jet A, Jet
						  A-1, JP-5, and JP-8.
"Kiln" means an oven, furnace, or heated enclosure used
						  for thermally processing a mineral or mineral-based substance.
"Kilowatt hour" or "kWh" means the electrical energy
						  unit of measure equal to one thousand watts of power supplied to, or taken
						  from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour. (A watt is a unit of
						  electrical power equal to one ampere under pressure of one volt, or 1/746
						  horsepower.)
"Last point of delivery in California" means the last
						  defined point on the transmission system located inside California at which
						  exported electricity may be measured, consistent with defined points that have
						  been established through the NERC Registry.
"Lead verifier" means a person that has met all of the
						  requirements in section
						  95132(b)(2) and
						  who may act as the lead verifier of a verification team providing verification
						  services or as a lead verifier providing an independent review of verification
						  services rendered.
"Lead verifier independent reviewer" or "independent
						  reviewer" means a lead verifier within a verification body who has not
						  participated in conducting verification services for a reporting entity, offset
						  project developer, or authorized project designee for the current reporting
						  year who provides an independent review of verification services rendered to
						  the reporting entity as required in section
						  95131. The independent reviewer is
						  not required to meet the requirements for a sector specific verifier.
"Legacy contract" shall have the meaning defined in
						  section 95802(a) of the
						  cap-and-trade regulation.
"Legacy contract transition assistance" means
						  allowances provided under section
						  95894 of the cap-and-trade
						  regulation to an entity which has applied for allowances on the basis of its
						  legacy contract(s).
"Less intensive verification" means the verification
						  services provided in interim years between full verifications; less intensive
						  verification of a reporting entity's emissions data report only requires data
						  checks and document reviews of a reporting entity's emissions data report based
						  on the analysis and risk assessment in the most current sampling plan developed
						  as part of the most current full verification services. This level of
						  verification may only be used if the verifier can provide findings with a
						  reasonable level of assurance.
"Light Crude Oil" means a category of crude oil
						  characterized by relatively low viscosity, a lower carbon-to-hydrogen ratio,
						  and a relatively lower density having an API gravity of greater than or equal
						  to 20.
"Linkage" is as defined in section
						  95802(a) of the
						  cap-and-trade regulation.
"Linked jurisdiction" means a jurisdiction which has
						  entered into a linkage agreement pursuant to subarticle 12 of the cap-and-trade
						  regulation.
"Liquefied natural gas" or "LNG" means natural gas
						  (primarily methane) that has been liquefied by reducing its temperature to -260
						  degrees Fahrenheit at atmospheric pressure.
"Liquefied petroleum gas" or "LP-Gas" or "LPG" means a
						  flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel. LPG is a natural gas
						  liquid (NGL) that is primarily a mixture of propane and butane, with small
						  amounts of propene (propylene) and ethane. The most common specification
						  categories are propane grades HD-5, HD-10, and commercial grade propane, and
						  propane/butane mix. LPG also includes both odorized and non-odorized liquid
						  petroleum gas, and is also referred to as propane.
"LNG boiloff gas" means natural gas in the gaseous
						  phase that vents from LNG storage tanks due to ambient heat leakage through the
						  tank insulation and heat energy dissipated in the LNG by internal pumps.
"Local distribution company" or "LDC," for purposes of
						  this article, means a company that owns or operates distribution pipelines, not
						  interstate pipelines, that physically deliver natural gas to end users and
						  includes public utility gas corporations, publicly-owned natural gas utilities
						  and intrastate pipelines that are delivering natural gas to end users.
"Lookback period" means the specified time period of
						  historical data that the operators must use for missing data substitution as
						  required by the regulation.
"Low-bleed pneumatic devices" means automated flow
						  control devices powered by pressurized natural gas and used for maintaining a
						  process condition such as liquid level, pressure, delta-pressure and
						  temperature. Part of the gas power stream that is regulated by the process
						  condition flows to a valve actuator controller where it vents continuously or
						  intermittently bleeds to the atmosphere at a rate equal to or less than six
						  standard cubic feet per hour.
"Low Btu gas" means gases recovered from casing vents,
						  vapor recovery systems, crude oil and petroleum product storage tanks and other
						  parts of the crude oil refining and natural gas production process.
"Marketer" means a purchasing-selling entity that
						  delivers electricity and is not a retail provider.
"Market-shifting leakage," in the context of an offset
						  project, means increased GHG emissions or decreased GHG removals outside an
						  offset project's boundary due to the effects of an offset project on an
						  established market for goods or services.
"Material misstatement" 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 total reported covered emissions (metric tons of
						  CO2e) or reported covered product data contains errors
						  greater than 5%, as applicable, in an emissions data report. Material
						  misstatement is calculated separately for covered emissions and covered product
						  data, as specified in section
						  95131(b)(12)(A).
"Maximum potential fuel flow rate" or "maximum fuel
						  consumption rate" means the maximum fuel use rate the source is capable of
						  combusting, measured in physical unit of the fuel (e.g. million standard cubic
						  feet for gases, gallons for liquids, short tons for non-biomass solids, and
						  bone dry short tons for biomass-derived solids). When the source consists of
						  multiple units, the maximum potential fuel use rate is the sum of the maximum
						  potential fuel use rates of all the units aggregated as a source.
"Megawatt hour" or "MWh" means the electrical energy
						  unit of measure equal to one million watts of power supplied to, or taken from,
						  an electric circuit steadily for one hour.
"Meter/regulator run" means a series of components used
						  in regulating pressure or metering natural gas flow or both.
"Metering/regulating station" means a station that
						  meters the flowrate, regulates the pressure, or both, of natural gas in a
						  natural gas distribution facility. This does not include customer meters,
						  customer regulators, or farm taps.
"Methane" or "CH4" means a GHG
						  consisting on the molecular level of a single carbon atom and four hydrogen
						  atoms.
"Metric ton" or "MT" means a common international
						  measurement for mass, equivalent to 2204.6 pounds or 1.1 short tons.
"Midgrade gasoline" means gasoline that has an octane
						  rating greater than or equal to 88 and less than or equal to 90. This
						  definition applies to the midgrade categories of conventional-summer,
						  conventional-winter, reformulated-summer, and reformulated-winter. For midgrade
						  categories of RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter, CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this
						  definition refers to the expected octane rating of the finished gasoline after
						  oxygenate has been added to the RBOB or CBOB.
"Missing data period" means a period of time during
						  which a piece of data is not collected, is invalid, or is collected while the
						  measurement device is not in compliance with the applicable quality-assurance
						  requirements. In the context of periodic fuel sampling, missing data period is
						  the entire sampling period (e.g. week, month, or quarter) for which
						  corresponding fuel characteristic data are not obtained. In the context of
						  periodic fuel consumption monitoring and recording, a missing data period
						  consists of the consecutive time intervals (e.g. hours, days, weeks, or months)
						  for which fuel consumption during the time period is not monitored and
						  recorded.
"MMBtu" means million British thermal units.
"Motor vehicle fuel" means gasoline. It does not
						  include aviation gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, kerosene, liquefied petroleum
						  gas, natural gas in liquid or gaseous form, or racing fuel.
"Mscf" means thousand standard cubic feet.
"Multi-jurisdictional retail provider" means a retail
						  provider that provides electricity to consumers in California and in one or
						  more other states in a contiguous service territory or from a common power
						  system.
"Municipal solid waste" or "MSW" means solid phase
						  household, commercial/retail, and/or institutional waste. Household waste
						  includes material discarded by single and multiple residential dwellings,
						  hotels, motels, and other similar permanent or temporary housing establishments
						  or facilities. Commercial/retail waste includes material discarded by stores,
						  offices, restaurants, warehouses, non-manufacturing activities at industrial
						  facilities, and other similar establishments or facilities. Institutional waste
						  includes material discarded by schools, nonmedical waste discarded by
						  hospitals, material discarded by non-manufacturing activities at prisons and
						  government facilities, and material discarded by other similar establishments
						  or facilities. Household, commercial/retail, and institutional wastes include
						  yard waste, refuse-derived fuel, and motor vehicle maintenance materials.
						  Insofar as there is separate collection, processing and disposal of industrial
						  source waste streams consisting of used oil, wood pallets, construction,
						  renovation, and demolition wastes (which includes, but is not limited to,
						  railroad ties and telephone poles), paper, clean wood, plastics, industrial
						  process or manufacturing wastes, medical waste, motor vehicle parts or vehicle
						  fluff, or used tires that do not contain hazardous waste identified or listed
						  under 42 U.S.C. §
																6921, such wastes are not municipal solid
						  waste. However, such wastes qualify as municipal solid waste where they are
						  collected with other municipal solid waste or are otherwise combined with other
						  municipal solid waste for processing and/or disposal.
"NAICS" means North American Industry Classification
						  System.
"Nameplate generating capacity" means the maximum rated
						  output of a generator under specific conditions designated by the manufacturer.
						  Generator nameplate capacity is usually indicated in units of kilovolt-amperes
						  (kVA) and in Kilowatts (kW) on a nameplate physically attached to the
						  generator.
"Naphthas" ( <401°F) is a generic term applid to
						  a petroleum fraction with an approximate boiling range between 122°F and
						  400°F. The naphtha fraction of crude oil is the raw material for gasoline
						  and is composed largely of paraffinic hydrocarbons.
"Natural gas" means a naturally occurring mixture or
						  process derivative of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases found in geologic
						  formations beneath the earth's surface, of which its constituents include
						  methane, heavier hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide. Natural gas may be field
						  quality (which varies widely) or pipeline quality. For the purposes of this
						  article, the definition of natural gas includes similarly constituted fuels
						  such as field production gas, process gas, and fuel gas.
"Natural gas distribution facility" means the
						  collection of all distribution pipelines, metering stations, and regulating
						  stations that are operated by a local distribution company (LDC) that is
						  regulated as a separate operating company by a public utility commission or
						  that are operated as an independent municipally-owned distribution
						  system.
"Natural gas driven pneumatic pump" means a pump that
						  uses pressurized natural gas to move a piston or diaphragm, which pumps liquids
						  on the opposite side of the piston or diaphragm.
"Natural gas liquids" or "NGLs" means those
						  hydrocarbons in natural gas that are separated from the gas as liquids through
						  the process of absorption, condensation, adsorption, or other methods. Natural
						  gas liquids can be classified according to their vapor pressures as low
						  (condensate), intermediate (natural gasoline), and high (liquefied petroleum
						  gas) vapor pressure. Generally, such liquids consist of ethane, propane,
						  butanes, pentanes, and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons. Bulk NGLs refers
						  to mixtures of NGLs that are sold or delivered as undifferentiated product from
						  natural gas processing plants.
"Natural gas liquid fractionator" means an installation
						  that fractionates natural gas liquids (NGLs) into their constituent liquid
						  products (ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutene or pentanes plus) for
						  supply to downstream facilities.
"Natural gas supplier" means, for the purposes of this
						  article, the local distribution company or interstate pipeline that owns or
						  operates the distribution pipelines that physically deliver natural gas to end
						  users.
"Natural gasoline" means a mixture of liquid
						  hydrocarbons (mostly pentanes and heavier hydrocarbons) extracted from natural
						  gas. It includes isopentane. Natural gasoline is a natural gas liquid of
						  intermediate vapor pressure.
"NERC e-Tag" means North American Electric Reliability
						  Corporation (NERC) energy tag representing transactions on the North American
						  bulk electricity market scheduled to flow between or across balancing authority
						  areas.
"Net generation" or "net power generated" means the
						  gross generation minus station service or unit service power requirements,
						  expressed in megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In the case of cogeneration, this
						  value is intended to include internal consumption of electricity for the
						  purposes of a production process, as well as power put on the grid.
"Nitrous oxide" or "N2O" means a
						  GHG consisting at the molecular level of two nitrogen atoms and a single oxygen
						  atom.
"Nonconformance" means the failure to use the methods
						  or emission factors specified in this article to calculate emissions, or the
						  failure to meet any other requirements of the regulation.
"Non-exempt biomass-derived CO2"
						  means CO2 emissions resulting from the combustion of
						  fuel not listed under section
						  95852.2(a) of the
						  cap-and-trade regulation, or that does not meet the requirements of section
						  95131(i) of this
						  article.
"Non-exempt biomass-derived fuel" means fuel not listed
						  under section
						  95852.2(a) of the
						  cap-and-trade regulation, or that does not meet the requirements of section
						  95131(i) of this
						  article.
"Non-fuel based renewable electricity generating unit"
						  means a unit that generates electricity not from fuel sources, but from
						  renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or hydropower. For the purpose
						  of this article, a non-fuel based renewable electricity generating unit does
						  not include other types of generation explicitly listed in section
						  95112(a)-(f).
"Non-submitted/non-verified emissions data report"
						  means an emissions data report that is not submitted to ARB by the applicable
						  reporting deadline, or for which a verification statement has not been issued
						  by the applicable verification deadline.
"North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
						  code(s)" means the six-digit code(s) that represent the
						  product(s)/activity(s)/service(s) at a facility or supplier as defined in North
						  American Industrial Classification System Manual 2007, available from the U.S.
						  Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service.
"Offset project" means all equipment, materials, items,
						  or actions that are directly related to or have an impact upon GHG reductions,
						  project emissions or GHG removal enhancements within the offset project
						  boundary.
"Offset project boundary" is defined by and includes
						  all GHG emission sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs that are affected by an
						  offset project and under control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized
						  Project Designee. GHG emissions sources, GHG sinks or GHG reservoirs not under
						  control of the Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee are not
						  included in the offset project boundary.
"Offset project data report" means the report prepared
						  by an Offset Project Operator or Authorized Project Designee each year that
						  provides the information and documentation required by this article or a
						  compliance offset protocol.
"Offset project operator" means the entity(ies) with
						  legal authority to implement the offset project.
"Offset project specific verifier" means an individual
						  who has been accredited by ARB to verify offset projects of a specific offset
						  project type.
"Offset protocol" means a documented set of procedures
						  and requirements to quantify ongoing GHG reductions or GHG removal enhancements
						  achieved by an offset project and calculate the project baseline. Offset
						  protocols specify relevant data collection and monitoring procedures, emission
						  factors and conservatively account for uncertainty and activity-shifting and
						  market-shifting leakage risks associated with an offset project.
"Offshore," for purposes of this article, means all
						  waters within three nautical miles of the California baseline, starting at the
						  California-Oregon border and ending at the California-Mexico border at the
						  Pacific Ocean, inclusive. For purposes of this definition, "California
						  baseline" means the mean lower low water line along the California
						  Coast.
"Oil well" means a well completed for the production of
						  crude oil from at least one oil zone or reservoir.
"Oil and gas systems specialist" means a verifier
						  accredited to meet the requirements of section
						  95131(a)(2) for
						  providing verification services to operators petroleum refineries, hydrogen
						  production units or facilities, and petroleum and natural gas systems listed in
						  section 95101(e).
"Onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility"
						  means all petroleum or natural gas equipment on a well pad, or associated with
						  a well pad or to which emulsion is transferred and CO2
						  EOR operations that are under common ownership or common control including
						  leased, rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural
						  gas production owner or operator that are located in a single basin as defined
						  in 40 CFR §
																98.238. When a commonly owned cogeneration
						  plant is within the basin, the cogeneration plant is only considered part of
						  the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility if the onshore
						  petroleum and natural gas production facility operator or owner has a greater
						  than fifty percent ownership share in the cogeneration plant. Where a person or
						  operating entity owns or operates more than one well in a basin, then all
						  onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment associated with all
						  wells that the person or entity owns or operates in the basin would be
						  considered one facility.
"Onshore petroleum and natural gas production owner or
						  operator" means the person or entity who holds the permit to operate petroleum
						  and natural gas wells on the drilling permit or an operating permit where no
						  drilling permit is issued, which operates an onshore petroleum and/or natural
						  gas production facility (as described in section
						  95102(a)). Where
						  petroleum and natural gas wells operate without a drilling or operating permit,
						  the person or entity that pays the State or Federal business income taxes is
						  considered the owner or operator.
"On-site" or "onsite" in the context of GHG reporting
						  means within the facility boundary.
"Operating pressure" means the containment pressure
						  that characterizes the normal state of gas or liquid inside a particular
						  process, pipeline, vessel or tank.
"Operational control" for a facility subject to this
						  article means the authority to introduce and implement operating,
						  environmental, health and safety policies. In any circumstance where this
						  authority is shared among multiple entities, the entity holding the permit to
						  operate from the local air pollution control district or air quality management
						  district is considered to have operational control for purposes of this
						  article.
"Operator" means the entity, including an owner, having
						  operational control of a facility. For onshore petroleum and natural gas
						  production, the operator is the operating entity listed on the state well
						  drilling permit, or a state operating permit for wells where no drilling permit
						  is issued by the state.
"Operating Pressure," for purposes of Appendix B means
						  the working pressure that characterizes the conditions of crude oil,
						  condensate, or produced water inside a particular process, pipeline, vessel or
						  tank. In general, low pressure liquid is under less than approximately 200 psig
						  of pressure.
"Outside of the facility boundary" means not within the
						  physical boundary of the facility (regardless of ownership or operational
						  control), or not in the same operational control of the reporting entity if
						  within the same physical boundary of the facility. For example, an entity
						  outside of the facility boundary may include another facility not in the
						  reporting entity's operational control, another facility under the same
						  operational control but considered a separate facility according to the
						  definition of "facility" in this section, or an on-site industrial operation
						  (e.g. a cogeneration system) within the facility fence line but that is
						  operated by another operator and for which the on-site industrial operation has
						  not been included in the reporting entity's GHG report.
"Parasitic load" means the amount of electricity
						  consumed by auxiliary equipment that supports the electricity generation or
						  cogeneration process. The equipment may include fans, pumps, drive motors,
						  pollution control equipment, lighting, computer, CEMS, and other
						  equipment.
"Particular end-user" means a final purchaser of an
						  energy product (e.g. electricity or thermal energy) for whom the energy product
						  is delivered for final consumption and not for the purposes of retransmission
						  or resale.
"Pentane" is the n-pentane, straight chain, isomer of
						  C5H12 under the International
						  Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature.
"Pentanes plus" or "C5+" means a mixture of
						  hydrocarbons that is a liquid at ambient temperature and pressure, and consists
						  mostly of pentanes (five carbon chain) and higher carbon number hydrocarbons.
						  Pentanes plus includes normal pentane, isopentane, hexanes-plus (natural
						  gasoline), and plant condensate.
"Perfluorocarbons" or "PFCs" means a class of
						  greenhouse gases consisting on the molecular level of carbon and
						  fluorine.
"Percent Water Cut," for purposes of Appendix B, means
						  the percentage of water by volume, of the total emulsion throughput as measured
						  using ASTM D-4007-08. The percent water cut is expressed as a
						  percentage.
"Performance review" means an assessment conducted by
						  ARB of an applicant seeking to become accredited as a verification body,
						  verifier, lead verifier, offset project specific verifier, or sector specific
						  verifier pursuant to section
						  95132 of this article. Such an
						  assessment may include a review of applicable past sampling plans, verification
						  reports, verification statements, conflict of interest submittals, and
						  additional information or documentation regarding the applicant's fitness for
						  qualification.
"Petroleum" means oil removed from the earth and the
						  oil derived from tar sands and shale.
"Petroleum coke" means a black solid residue, obtained
						  mainly by cracking and carbonizing of petroleum derived feedstocks, vacuum
						  bottoms, tar and pitches in processes such as delayed coking or fluid coking.
						  It consists mainly of carbon (90 to 95 percent), has low ash content, and may
						  be used as a feedstock in coke ovens. This product is also known as marketable
						  coke.
"Petroleum refinery" or "refinery" means any facility
						  engaged in producing gasoline, gasoline blending stocks, naphtha, kerosene,
						  distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or asphalt (bitumen)
						  through distillation of petroleum or through redistillation, cracking, or
						  reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives. Facilities that distill only
						  pipeline transmix (off-spec material created when different specification
						  products mix during pipeline transportation) are not petroleum refineries,
						  regardless of the products produced.
"Physical address," with respect to a United States
						  parent company as defined in this section, means the street address, city,
						  State and zip code of that company's physical location.
"Pipeline dig-in" means unintentional puncture or
						  rupture to a buried natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline during
						  excavation activities.
"Pipeline quality natural gas" means, for the purpose
						  of calculating emissions under this article, natural gas having a high heat
						  value greater than 970 Btu/scf and equal to or less than 1,100 Btu/scf, and
						  which is at least ninety percent methane by volume, and which is less than five
						  percent carbon dioxide by volume.
"Point of delivery" or "POD" means the point on an
						  electricity transmission or distribution system where a deliverer makes
						  electricity available to a receiver, or available to serve load. This point can
						  be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the
						  transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to
						  another system, or a distribution substation where electricity is imported into
						  California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's distribution
						  system.
"Point of receipt" or "POR" means the point on an
						  electricity transmission or distribution system where an electricity receiver
						  receives electricity from a deliverer. This point can be an interconnection
						  with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's
						  transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system.
"Point source" means any separately identifiable
						  stationary point from which greenhouse gases are emitted.
"Portable" means designed and capable of being carried
						  or moved from one location to another. Indications of portability include
						  wheels, skids, carrying handles, dolly, trailer, or platform. Equipment is not
						  portable if any one of the following conditions exists:
The equipment is attached to a foundation.
The equipment or a replacement resides at the same
						  location for more than 12 consecutive months.
The equipment is located at a seasonal facility and
						  operates during the full annual operating period of the seasonal facility,
						  remains at the facility for at least two years, and operates at that facility
						  for at least three months each year.
The equipment is moved from one location to another in
						  an attempt to circumvent the portable residence time requirements of this
						  definition.
"Portland cement" means hydraulic cement (cement that
						  not only hardens by reacting with water but also forms a water-resistant
						  product) produced by pulverizing clinkers consisting essentially of hydraulic
						  calcium silicates, usually containing one or more of the forms of calcium
						  sulfate as an inter-ground addition.
"Position holder" means an entity that holds an
						  inventory position in motor vehicle fuel, ethanol, distillate fuel, biodiesel,
						  or renewable diesel as reflected in the records of the terminal operator or a
						  terminal operator that owns motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel in its terminal.
						  "Position holder" does not include inventory held outside of a terminal, fuel
						  jobbers (unless directly holding inventory at the terminal), retail
						  establishments, or other fuel suppliers not holding inventory at a fuel
						  terminal.
"Positive emissions data verification statement" means
						  a verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and that the covered emissions data conforms to the requirements of this
						  article.
"Positive product data verification statement" means a
						  verification statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and that the covered product data conforms to the requirements of this
						  article.
"Positive verification statement" means a verification
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body
						  can say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is
						  free of material misstatement and that the emissions data report conforms to
						  the requirements of this article. This definition applies to the emissions data
						  verification statement and the product data verification statement.
"Power" means electricity, except where the context
						  makes clear that another meaning is intended.
"Power contract" or "written power contract," as used
						  for the purposes of documenting specified versus unspecified sources of
						  imported and exported electricity, means a written document, including
						  associated verbal or electronic records if included as part of the written
						  power contract, arranging for the procurement of electricity. Power contracts
						  may be, but are not limited to, power purchase agreements, enabling agreements,
						  electricity transactions, and tariff provisions, without regard to duration, or
						  written agreements to import or export on behalf of another entity, as long as
						  that other entity also reports to ARB the same imported or exported
						  electricity. A power contract for a specified source is a contract that is
						  contingent upon delivery of power from a particular facility, unit, or
						  asset-controlling supplier's system that is designated at the time the
						  transaction is executed.
"Premium grade gasoline" is gasoline having an
						  antiknock index, i.e., octane rating, greater than 90. This definition applies
						  to the premium grade categories of conventional-summer, conventional-winter,
						  reformulated-summer, and reformulated-winter. For premium grade categories of
						  RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter, CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this definition refers
						  to the expected octane rating of the finished gasoline after oxygenate has been
						  added to the RBOB or CBOB.
"Primary fuel" means the fuel that provides the
						  greatest percentage of the annual heat input to a stationary fuel combustion
						  unit.
"Primary Vessel," for purposes of Appendix B means a
						  separator or tank that receives crude oil, condensate, produced water, natural
						  gas, or emulsion from one or more crude oil, condensate, or natural gas wells
						  or field gathering systems.
"Prime mover" means the type of equipment such as an
						  engine or water wheel that drives an electric generator. "Prime movers"
						  include, but are not limited to, reciprocating engines, combustion or gas
						  turbines, steam turbines, microturbines, and fuel cells.
"Process" means the intentional or unintentional
						  reactions between substances or their transformation, including, but not
						  limited to, the chemical or electrolytic reduction of metal ores, the thermal
						  decomposition of substances, and the formation of substances for use as product
						  or feedstock.
"Process emissions" means the emissions from industrial
						  processes (e.g., cement production, ammonia production) involving chemical or
						  physical transformations other than fuel combustion. For example, the
						  calcination of carbonates in a kiln during cement production or the oxidation
						  of methane in an ammonia process results in the release of process
						  CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions from fuel
						  combustion to provide process heat are not part of process emissions, whether
						  the combustion is internal or external to the process equipment.
"Process emissions specialist" means a verifier
						  accredited to meet the requirements of section
						  95131(a)(2) for
						  providing verification services to operators of facilities engaged in cement
						  production, glass production, lime manufacturing, pulp and paper manufacturing,
						  iron and steel production, nitric acid production, and lead production.
"Process gas" means any gas generated by an industrial
						  process such as petroleum refining.
"Process Heater" means equipment for the heating of
						  process streams (gases, liquids, or solids) other than water through heat
						  provided by fuel combustion.
"Process unit" means the equipment assembled and
						  connected by pipes and ducts to process raw materials and to manufacture either
						  a final or an intermediate product used in the onsite production of other
						  products. The process unit also includes the purification of recovered
						  byproducts.
"Process vent" means an opening where a gas stream is
						  continuously or periodically discharged during normal operation.
"Produced water" means the resulting water that is
						  produced as a byproduct of crude oil or natural gas production.
"Producer" means a person who owns, leases, operates,
						  controls or supervises a California production facility.
"Product data" means the sector-specific data specified
						  in subarticles 2 and 5 of this article, including requirements in 40 CFR Part
						  98.
"Product data verification statement" means the final
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting
						  entity's covered product data in their emissions data report is free of
						  material misstatement, and whether the product data conforms to the
						  requirements of this article.
"Professional judgment" means the ability to render
						  sound decisions based on professional qualifications and relevant greenhouse
						  gas accounting and auditing experience.
"Project baseline" means, in the context of a specific
						  offset project, a conservative estimate of business-as-usual GHG emission
						  reductions or GHG removal enhancements for the offset project's GHG emission
						  sources, GHG sinks, or GHG reservoirs within the offset project
						  boundary.
"Propane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular
						  formula C3H8.
"Propylene" is an olefinic hydrocarbon with molecular
						  formula C3H6.
"Public utility gas corporation" is a gas corporation
						  defined in California Public Utilities Code section
						  222
						  that is also a public utility as defined in California Public Utilities Code
						  section
						  216.
"Publicly-owned natural gas utility" means a
						  municipality or municipal corporation, a municipal utility district, a public
						  utility district, or a joint powers authority that includes one or more of
						  these agencies that furnishes natural gas services to end users.
"Pump" means a device used to raise pressure, drive, or
						  increase flow of liquid streams in closed or open conduits.
"Pump seal emissions" means hydrocarbon gas released
						  from the seal face between the pump internal chamber and the atmosphere.
"Pump seals" means any seal on a pump drive shaft used
						  to keep methane and/or carbon dioxide containing light liquids from escaping
						  the inside of a pump case to the atmosphere.
"Purchasing-selling entity" or "PSE" means the entity
						  that is identified on a NERC e-Tag for each physical path segment.
"Pure" means consisting of at least 97 percent by mass
						  of a specified substance. For facilities burning biomass fuels, this means the
						  fraction of biomass carbon accounts for at least 97 percent of the total amount
						  of carbon in the fuel burned at the facility.
"PURPA Qualifying Facility" means a facility that has
						  acquired a "qualifying facility (QF)" certification pursuant to
						  18 CFR §
																292.207 under the Public Utility Regulatory
						  Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).
"QA/QC" means quality assurance and quality
						  control.
"Qualified positive emissions data verification
						  statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered emissions
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and is in conformance with section
						  95131(b)(9), but
						  the emissions data may include one or more other nonconformances with the
						  requirements of this article which do not result in a material
						  misstatement.
"Qualified positive product data verification
						  statement" means a statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the
						  verification body can say with reasonable assurance that the covered product
						  data in the submitted emissions data report is free of material misstatement
						  and is in conformance with section
						  95131(b)(9), but
						  the product data may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with the
						  requirements of this article which do not result in a material
						  misstatement.
"Qualified positive verification statement" means a
						  statement rendered by a verification body attesting that the verification body
						  can say with reasonable assurance that the submitted emissions data report is
						  free of material misstatement and is in conformance with section
						  95131(b)(9), but
						  the emissions data report may include one or more other nonconformance(s) with
						  the requirements of this article which do not result in a material
						  misstatement. This definition applies to the qualified positive emissions data
						  verification statement and the qualified positive product data verification
						  statement.
"Qualified Thermal Output" means the thermal energy
						  generated by a cogeneration unit or district heating facility that is sold to
						  particular end-users and reported pursuant to MRR section
						  95112(a)(5)(A)
						  and the thermal energy used on-site by industrial processes or operations and
						  heating and cooling operations that is not in support of or a part of the
						  electricity generation or cogeneration system and is reported pursuant to MRR
						  sections 95112(a)(5)(C).
						  Qualified thermal output does not include thermal energy that is vented,
						  radiated, wasted, or discharged before it is utilized at industrial processes
						  or operations, or, for a facility with a cogeneration unit, any thermal energy
						  generated by equipment that is not an integral part of the cogeneration
						  unit.
"Quality-assured data" or "quality-assured value" means
						  the data are obtained from a monitoring system that is operating within the
						  performance specifications and the quality assurance/quality control procedures
						  set forth in the applicable rules, for example 40 CFR Part 60 (July 1, 2009) or
						  Part 75, (July 1, 2009), which is hereby incorporated by reference, without
						  unscheduled maintenance, repair, or adjustment.
"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.
"RBOB-summer" or "reformulated blendstock for oxygenate
						  blending-summer" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified
						  type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of
						  reformulated-summer.
"RBOB-winter" or "reformulated blendstock for oxygenate
						  blendingwinter" means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified
						  type and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of
						  reformulatedwinter.
"Reasonable assurance" means a high degree of
						  confidence that submitted data and statements are valid.
"Reciprocating compressor" means a piece of equipment
						  that increases the pressure of a process natural gas or
						  CO2 by positive displacement, employing linear movement
						  of a shaft driving a piston in a cylinder.
"Reciprocating compressor rod packing" means a series
						  of flexible rings in machined metal cups that fit around the reciprocating
						  compressor piston rod to create a seal limiting the amount of compressed
						  natural gas or CO2 that escapes to the
						  atmosphere.
"Reciprocating internal combustion engine" or "RICE" or
						  "piston engine" means an engine that uses heat from the internal combustion of
						  fuel to create pressure that drives one or more reciprocating pistons, creating
						  mechanical energy.
"Re-condenser" means heat exchangers that cool
						  compressed boil-off gas to a temperature that will condense natural gas to a
						  liquid.
"Refiner" means, for purposes of this article, an
						  individual entity or a corporate-wide entity that delivers transportation fuels
						  to end users in California that were produced by petroleum refineries owned by
						  that entity or a subsidiary of that entity.
"Refinery fuel gas" or "still gas" means gas generated
						  at a petroleum refinery or any gas generated by a refinery process unit, and
						  that is combusted separately or in any combination with any type of gas or used
						  as a chemical feedstock.
"Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate
						  Blending" or "RBOB" has the same meaning as defined in title 13 of the
						  California Code of Regulations, section
						  2260(a).
"Reformulated-summer" means finished gasoline
						  formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which
						  meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by
						  the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under
						  40 CFR §
																80.40 and
						  40 CFR §
																80.41, and summer RVP standards required
						  under 40 CFR §
																80.27 or as specified by the state.
						  Reformulated gasoline excludes RBOB as well as other blendstock.
"Reformulated-winter" means finished gasoline
						  formulated for use in motor vehicles, the composition and properties of which
						  meet the requirements of the reformulated gasoline regulations promulgated by
						  the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under
						  40 CFR §
																80.40 and
						  40 CFR §
																80.41, but which do not meet summer RVP
						  standards required under 40
						  CFR §
																80.27 or as specified by the
						  state.
NOTE: This category includes Oxygenated Fuels Program
						  Reformulated Gasoline (OPRG). Reformulated gasoline excludes RBOB as well as
						  other blendstock.
"Regular grade gasoline" is gasoline having an
						  antiknock index, i.e., octane rating, greater than or equal to 85 and less than
						  88. This definition applies to the regular grade categories of
						  conventional-summer, conventional-winter, reformulated-summer, and
						  reformulated-winter. For regular grade categories of RBOB-summer, RBOB-winter,
						  CBOB-summer, and CBOB-winter, this definition refers to the expected octane
						  rating of the finished gasoline after oxygenate has been added to the RBOB or
						  CBOB.
"Relative Accuracy Test Audit" means a method of
						  determining the correlation of continuous emissions monitoring system data to
						  simultaneously collected reference method test data, for example as required in
						  40 CFR Part 60 (July 1, 2009) and 40 CFR Part 75 (July 1, 2009).
"Rendered animal fat" or "tallow" means fats extracted
						  from animals which are generally used as a feedstock in making
						  biodiesel.
"Renewable diesel" means a motor vehicle fuel or fuel
						  additive that is all of the following:
Registered as a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive
						  under 40 CFR Part 79 ;
Not a mono-alkyl ester;
Intended for use in engines that are designed to run on
						  conventional diesel fuel; and
Derived from nonpetroleum renewable resources.
"Renewable energy" means energy from sources that
						  constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible.
						  Renewable energy includes energy derived from solar, wind, geothermal,
						  hydroelectric, wood, biomass, tidal power, sea currents, and ocean thermal
						  gradients.
"Renewable Energy Credit" or "REC" has the same meaning
						  defined in the California Energy Commission's "Renewable Portfolio Standard
						  Eligibility," 7th edition, Commission Guidebook,
						  April, 2013; CEC-300-2013-005-ED7-CMF.
"Renewable liquid fuels" means fuel ethanol,
						  biomass-based diesel fuel, other renewable diesel fuel and other renewable
						  fuels.
"Reporting entity" means a facility operator, supplier,
						  or electric power entity subject to the requirements of this article.
"Reporting period" means the calendar year which
						  coincides with the data year for the GHG report.
"Reporting year" or "report year" means data
						  year.
"Reservoir" means a porous and permeable underground
						  natural formation containing crude oil or gas. A reservoir is characterized by
						  a single natural pressure.
"Residual fuel oil" means a general classification for
						  the heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that remain after the
						  distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled away in refinery
						  operations.
"Residue gas and residue gas compression" means,
						  respectively, production lease natural gas from which gas liquid products and,
						  in some cases, non-hydrocarbon components have been extracted such that it
						  meets the specifications set by a pipeline transmission company, and/or a
						  distribution company; and the compressors operated by the processing facility,
						  whether inside the processing facility boundary fence or outside the
						  fence-line, that deliver the residue gas from the processing facility to a
						  transmission pipeline.
"Retail end-use customer" or "retail end user" means a
						  residential, commercial, agricultural, or industrial electric customer who buys
						  electricity to be consumed as a final product and not for resale.
"Retail provider" means an entity that provides
						  electricity to retail end users in California and is an electric corporation as
						  defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  218,
						  electric service provider as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  218.3,
						  local publicly owned electric utility as defined in Public Utilities Code
						  section
						  224.3,
						  a community choice aggregator as defined in Public Utilities Code section
						  331.1,
						  or the Western Area Power Administration. For purposes of this article,
						  electric cooperatives, as defined by Public Utilities Code section
						  2776,
						  are excluded.
"Retail sales" means electricity sold to retail end
						  users.
"Sales oil" means produced crude oil or condensate
						  measured at the production lease automatic custody transfer (LACT) meter or
						  custody transfer tank gauge.
"Secondary Vessel," for purposes of Appendix B means a
						  separator or tank that receives crude oil, condensate, produced water, natural
						  gas, or emulsion from one or more primary vessel separators or tanks.
"Sector" means a broad industrial categorization such
						  as specified in section
						  95101.
"Sector specific verifier" means a verifier accredited
						  pursuant to section
						  95132(b)(5)(A) as
						  one or more of the following types of specialists defined pursuant to this
						  section: a transactions specialist, an oil and gas systems specialist, or a
						  process emissions specialist.
"Separator" means a sump or vessel used to separate
						  crude oil, condensate, natural gas, produced water, emulsion or solids.
"Short ton" means a common international measurement
						  for mass, equivalent to 2,000 pounds.
"Shutdown" means the cessation of operation of an
						  emission source for any purpose.
"Simplified block diagram" means a diagram consisting
						  of boxes, shapes, lines, arrows, and labels that meets the requirements of
						  section 95112(a)(6) or
						  section 95105(c). A
						  simplified block diagram is not an architectural drawing or an engineering
						  drawing that shows the likeness of the physical objects being depicted and
						  their actual locations and sizes in scale; it is a simplified graphical
						  representation of the objects being depicted, their relative locations, and how
						  they are connected through flows of energy or energy carrier (e.g. steam,
						  water, electricity, or fuel).
"Sink" or "sink to load" or "load sink" means the sink
						  identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined points have been
						  established through the NERC Registry. Exported electricity is disaggregated by
						  the sink on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to as the final point of delivery on
						  the NERC e-Tag.
"Sorbent" means a material used to absorb or adsorb
						  liquids or gases.
"Sour natural gas" means natural gas that contains
						  significant concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
						  and/or carbon dioxide that exceed the concentrations specified for commercially
						  saleable natural gas delivered from transmission and distribution
						  pipelines.
"Source" means greenhouse gas source; any physical
						  unit, process, or other use or activity that releases a greenhouse gas into the
						  atmosphere.
"Source category" means categories of emission sources
						  as defined by Tables A-3, A-4, and A-5 of 40 CFR Part 98.
"Source of generation" or "generation source" means the
						  generation source identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined
						  points have been established through the NERC Registry. Imported electricity
						  and wheels are disaggregated by the source on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to
						  as the first point of receipt.
"Specified source of electricity" or "specified source"
						  means a facility or unit which is permitted to be claimed as the source of
						  electricity delivered. The reporting entity must have either full or partial
						  ownership in the facility/unit or a written power contract to procure
						  electricity generated by that facility/unit. Specified facilities/units include
						  cogeneration systems. Specified source also means electricity procured from an
						  asset-controlling supplier recognized by the ARB.
"SSM" means periods of startup, shutdown and
						  malfunction.
"Stand-alone electricity generating facility" means an
						  electricity generating facility whose primary business and sole industrial
						  operation is electricity generation, and is not a cogeneration or bigeneration
						  facility.
"Standard conditions" or "standard temperature and
						  pressure (STP)" means either 60 or 68 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per
						  square inch absolute.
"Standard cubic foot" or "scf" is a measure of quantity
						  of gas, equal to a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and either
						  14.696 pounds per square inch (1 atm) or 14.73 PSI (30 inches Hg) of
						  pressure.
"Steam generator" means equipment that produces steam
						  using an external heat source.
"Stationary" means neither portable nor self-propelled,
						  and operated at a single facility.
"Storage tank" means any tank, other container, or
						  reservoir used for the storage of organic liquids, excluding tanks that are
						  permanently affixed to mobile vehicles such as railroad tank cars, tanker
						  trucks or ocean vessels.
"Sub-facility" for purposes of reporting data
						  disaggregated pursuant to section
						  95156(a), means
						  the geographic area, or areas, within a single township or within a group of
						  contiguous or adjacent townships identified in the Public Land Survey System of
						  the United States, where operations and equipment are located. The operator may
						  disaggregate sub-facilities based on contiguous township areas to smaller
						  sub-facilities according to similar operational, geological, or geographical
						  characteristics. Sub-facility disaggregation may be retained from year to year,
						  or may be updated when some of the operations cease or equipment is
						  reconfigured within the previously designated sub-facilities. Sub-facility
						  disaggregation must be updated from previous reporting years if there are new
						  operations or equipment that lies outside previous township boundaries. The
						  Principal Meridian name, Township and Range designations, and the section
						  numbers that apply to each sub-facility, must be identified in the operator's
						  GHG Monitoring Plan required pursuant to section
						  95105(c). The
						  operator must also describe in the GHG Monitoring Plan any operational,
						  geological or geographical characteristics used to determine sub-facility
						  boundaries.
"Substitute power" or "substitute electricity" means
						  electricity that is provided to meet the terms of a power purchase contract
						  with a specified facility or unit when that facility or unit is not generating
						  electricity.
"Sulfur hexafluoride" or "SF6"
						  means a GHG consisting on the molecular level of a single sulfur atom and six
						  fluorine atoms.
"Sump," for purposes of Appendix B means a lined or
						  unlined surface impoundment or depression in the ground that, during normal
						  operations, is used for separating crude oil, condensate, produced water,
						  emulsion, or solids.
"Supplemental firing" means an energy input to the
						  cogeneration facility used only in the thermal process of a topping cycle
						  plant, or in the electricity generating or manufacturing process of a bottoming
						  cycle cogeneration facility.
"Supplier" means a producer, importer, exporter,
						  position holder, interstate pipeline operator, intrastate pipeline operator, or
						  local distribution company of a fossil fuel or an industrial greenhouse
						  gas.
"Sweet gas" means natural gas with low concentrations
						  of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and/or carbon dioxide
						  (CO2) that does not require (or has already had) acid
						  gas treatment to meet pipeline corrosion-prevention specifications for
						  transmission and distribution.
"Tactical support equipment" is as defined in title 17,
						  California Code of Regulations, section
						  93116.2(a)(36).
"Tank," for the purposes of Appendix B, means a
						  container, constructed primarily of non-earthen materials, used for holding or
						  storing crude oil, condensate, produced water, or emulsion.
"Tentatively Identified Compound List," for purposes of
						  Appendix B means a list of target compounds that laboratories can use to
						  evaluate uncommon gaseous compounds when performing a Gas Chromatograph/Mass
						  Spectrometry analysis.
"Terminal" means a motor vehicle fuel or diesel fuel
						  storage and distribution facility that is supplied by pipeline or vessel, and
						  from which fuel may be removed at a rack. "Terminal" includes a fuel production
						  facility where motor vehicle or diesel fuel is produced and stored and from
						  which fuel may be removed at a rack.
"Terminal operator" means any entity that owns,
						  operates or otherwise controls a terminal that is supplied by pipeline or
						  vessel and from which accountable fuel products may be removed at a
						  rack.
"Thermal energy" means the thermal output produced by a
						  combustion source used directly as part of a manufacturing process,
						  industrial/commercial process, or heating/cooling application, but not used to
						  produce electricity.
"Thermal host" means the user of the steam or heat
						  output of a cogeneration or bigeneration facility.
"Three-Phase Separator," for purposes of Appendix B,
						  means a pressurized vessel sealed from the atmosphere used to gravimetrically
						  separate crude oil, produced water and gases.
"Throughput" for the purposes of Appendix B, means the
						  average volume of liquid processed by a vessel over a period of time, such as
						  barrels per day. The throughput of crude oil or condensate may need to be
						  calculated using the Percent Water Cut. The throughput of crude oil or
						  condensate is calculated as the difference in volume between these liquids and
						  the produced water.
"Tier" means the level of calculation method from
						  40 CFR §
																98.33 that is required for a stationary
						  combustion source in section
						  95115 of this article.
"Tier 1" means a stationary combustion calculation
						  method that applies default values for emission factors and high heat value to
						  generate an emissions estimate, as specified in
						  40 CFR §
																98.33.
"Tier 2" means a stationary combustion calculation
						  method that applies a default value for an emission factor and a fuel's
						  measured high heat value (or a boiler efficiency for steam-generating solid
						  fuels) to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in
						  40 CFR §
																98.33.
"Tier 3" means a stationary combustion calculation
						  method that utilizes a fuel's measured carbon content to generate an emissions
						  estimate, as specified in 40
						  CFR §
																98.33.
"Tier 4" means a stationary combustion calculation
						  method that utilizes quality-assured data from a continuous emission monitoring
						  system to generate an emissions estimate, as specified in
						  40 CFR §
																98.33. This method may also capture process
						  emissions from a common stack.
"Tolling agreement" means an agreement whereby a party
						  rents a power plant from the owner. The rent is generally in the form of a
						  fixed monthly payment plus a charge for every MW generated, generally referred
						  to as a variable payment.
"Topping cycle" means a type of cogeneration system in
						  which the energy input to the plant is first used to produce electricity, and
						  at least some of the reject heat from the electricity production process is
						  then used to provide useful thermal output.
"Total thermal output" means the total amount of usable
						  thermal energy generated by a cogeneration or bigeneration unit that can
						  potentially be made available for use in any industrial or commercial
						  processes, heating or cooling applications, or delivered to other end users.
						  This quantity excludes the heat content of returned condensate and makeup
						  water, but includes the thermal energy used for supporting (but not directly
						  used for) power generation, thermal energy used in other on-site processes or
						  applications that are not in support of or a part of the electricity generation
						  system, thermal energy provided or sold to particular end-user, and thermal
						  energy that is otherwise not utilized. Thermal energy directly used for power
						  generation (e.g., steam used to drive a steam turbine generator for electricity
						  generation) is not included in total thermal output.
"Transactions specialist" means a verifier accredited
						  to meet the requirements of section
						  95131(a)(2) for
						  providing verification services to electric power entities; suppliers of
						  petroleum products and biofuels; suppliers of natural gas, natural gas liquids,
						  and liquefied petroleum gas; and suppliers of carbon dioxide.
"Transmission-distribution (T-D) transfer station"
						  means a metering-regulating station where a local distribution company takes
						  part or all of the natural gas from a transmission pipeline and puts it into a
						  distribution pipeline.
"Transmission pipeline" means a high pressure cross
						  country pipeline transporting saleable quality natural gas from production or
						  natural gas from processing to natural gas distribution pressure let-down,
						  metering, regulating stations, where the natural gas is typically odorized
						  before delivery to customers.
"Traceable" means that a standard used to calibrate a
						  device has an unbroken chain of comparisons to a stated reference (such as a
						  standard set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology), with each
						  comparison having a stated uncertainty
"Turbine" means any of various types of machines in
						  which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy
						  by causing a bladed rotor to rotate.
"Turbine meter" means a flow meter in which a gas or
						  liquid flow rate through the calibrated tube spins a turbine from which the
						  spin rate is detected and calibrated to measure the fluid flow rate.
"Two-Phase Separator," for purposes of Appendix B,
						  means a pressurized vessel sealed from the atmosphere used to gravimetrically
						  separate crude oil and produced water that still contain entrained
						  gases.
"Type of thermal energy product" means the form in
						  which energy is transferred from a facility producing thermal energy to another
						  facility, or if not transferred, the form in which the energy is used. Types of
						  thermal energy products include steam, hot water, chilled water, and distilled
						  water.
"Uncertainty" means the degree to which data or a data
						  system is deemed to be indefinite or unreliable.
"Uncontrolled blowdown system" means the use of a
						  blowdown procedure that does not result in the recovery of emissions for
						  flaring or re-injection.
"Unconventional wells" means crude oil or gas wells in
						  producing fields that employ hydraulic fracturing to enhance crude oil or gas
						  production volumes.
"United States parent company(s)" mean the
						  highest-level United States company(s) with an ownership interest in the
						  reporting entity as of December 31 of the reporting year.
"Unspecified source of electricity" or "unspecified
						  source" means a source of electricity that is not a specified source at the
						  time of entry into the transaction to procure the electricity.
"Upstream entity" means the last entity in the chain of
						  title prior to the fuel being received by the reporting entity.
"Urban waste" means waste pallets, crates, dunnage,
						  manufacturing and construction wood waste, tree trimmings, mill residues and
						  range land maintenance residues.
"U.S. EPA" means the United States Environmental
						  Protection Agency.
"Used oil" means a petroleum-derived or
						  synthetically-derived oil whose physical properties have changed as a result of
						  handling or use, such that the oil cannot be used for its original purpose.
						  Used oil consists primarily of automotive oils (e.g., used motor oil,
						  transmission oil, hydraulic fluids, brake fluid, etc.) and industrial oils
						  (e.g., industrial engine oils, metalworking oils, process oils, industrial
						  grease, etc.).
"Vapor recovery system" means any equipment located at
						  the source of potential gas emissions to the atmosphere or to a flare, that is
						  composed of piping, connections, and, if necessary, flow-inducing devices, and
						  that is used for routing the gas back into the process as a product and/or
						  fuel.
"Vegetable oil" means oils extracted from vegetation
						  that are generally used as a feedstock in making biodiesel.
"Vented emissions" means intentional or designed
						  releases of CH4 or CO2 containing
						  natural gas or hydrocarbon gas (not including stationary combustion flue gas),
						  including process designed flow to the atmosphere through seals or vent pipes,
						  equipment blowdown for maintenance, and direct venting of gas used to power
						  equipment (such as pneumatic devices).
"Verification" means a systematic, independent and
						  documented process for evaluation of a reporting entity's emissions data report
						  against ARB's reporting procedures and methods for calculation and reporting
						  GHG emissions and product data.
"Verification body" means a firm accredited by ARB that
						  is able to render a verification statement and provide verification services
						  for reporting entities subject to reporting under this article.
"Verification services" means services provided during
						  verification as specified in section
						  95131 beginning with the
						  development of the verification plan or first site visit, including but not
						  limited to reviewing a reporting entity's emissions data report, ensuring its
						  accuracy according to the standards specified in this article, assessing the
						  reporting entity's compliance with this article, and submitting a verification
						  statement(s) to the ARB.
"Verification statement" means the final statement
						  rendered by a verification body attesting whether a reporting entity's
						  emissions data report is free of material misstatement, and whether it conforms
						  to the requirements of this article. This definition applies to the emissions
						  data verification statement and the product data verification statement.
"Verification team" means all of those working for a
						  verification body, including all subcontractors, to provide verification
						  services for a reporting entity.
"Verified emissions data report" means an emissions
						  data report that has been reviewed by a third-party verifier and has a
						  verification statement, or statements, if applicable, submitted to the
						  ARB.
"Verifier" means an individual accredited by ARB to
						  carry out verification services as specified in section
						  95131.
"Verifier review" means a verifier conducts all reviews
						  and services in section
						  95131, except the material
						  misstatement assessment under section
						  95131(b)(12). If
						  some of the sources are selected for data checks based on the sampling plan,
						  the verifier will check for conformance with the requirements of this
						  article.
"Vertical well" means a well bore that is primarily
						  vertical but has some unintentional deviation to enter one or more subsurface
						  targets that are off-set horizontally from the surface location, intercepting
						  the targets either vertically or at an angle.
"Vessel," for the purposes of Appendix B, means any
						  container, constructed primarily of non-earthen materials, used to separate or
						  store crude oil, condensate, natural gas, produced water, or emulsion.
"Volatile organic compound" or "VOC" means any volatile
						  compound of carbon, excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid,
						  metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate, which participates in
						  atmospheric photochemical reactions.
"VOCC3-C9," for purposes of
						  Appendix B, means Volatile Organic Compounds with three to nine carbon
						  atoms.
"VOCC10+," for purposes of
						  Appendix B, means Volatile Organic Compounds with 10 or more carbon atoms. This
						  value is needed for laboratory and quality control purposes.
"Weighted monthly average" means the sum of the
						  products of two values measured during the same time period divided by the sum
						  of the values not being averaged. For weighted average HHV it would be the sum
						  of the products of volume and HHV measured during the same time period divided
						  by the sum of the volumes.
"Well completions" means the process that allows for
						  the flow of petroleum or natural gas from newly drilled wells to expel drilling
						  and reservoir fluids and test the reservoir flow characteristics, steps which
						  may vent produced gas to the atmosphere via an open pit or tank. Well
						  completion also involves connecting the well bore to the reservoir, which may
						  include treating the formation or installing tubing, packer(s), or lifting
						  equipment, steps that do not significantly vent natural gas to the atmosphere.
						  This process may also include high-rate flowback of injected gas, water, oil,
						  and proppant used to fracture or re-fracture and prop open new fractures in
						  existing lower permeability gas reservoirs, steps that may vent large
						  quantities of produced gas to the atmosphere.
"Well testing venting and flaring" means venting and/or
						  flaring of natural gas at the time the production rate of a well is determined
						  for regulatory, commercial, or technical purposes. If well testing is conducted
						  immediately after a well completion or workover, then it is considered part of
						  well completion or workover.
"Well workover" means the process(es) of performing one
						  or more of a variety of remedial operations on producing petroleum and natural
						  gas wells to try to increase production. This process also includes high-rate
						  flowback of injected gas, water, oil, and proppant used to re-fracture and
						  prop-open new fractures in existing low permeability gas reservoirs, steps that
						  may vent large quantities of produced gas to the atmosphere.
"Wellhead" means the piping, casing, tubing and
						  connected valves protruding above the Earth's surface for an oil and/or natural
						  gas well. The wellhead ends where the flow line connects to a wellhead valve.
						  Wellhead equipment includes all equipment, permanent and portable, located on
						  the improved land area (i.e. well pad) surrounding one or multiple
						  wellheads.
"Wet natural gas" means natural gas in which water
						  vapor exceeds the concentration specified for commercially saleable natural gas
						  delivered from transmission and distribution pipelines. This input stream to a
						  natural gas dehydrator is referred to as "wet gas".
"Wholesale sales" means sales to other
						  LDCs.