New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 27E - GREENHOUSE GAS MONITORING AND REPORTING › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 7:27E-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Air-conditioning" means any stationary, non-residential appliance, including a computer-room air conditioner, that provides cooling to a space for the purpose of cooling objects or occupants, but excludes chillers.
"Air contaminant" means any substance, other than water or distillates of air, present in the atmosphere as solid particles, liquid particles, vapors, or gases.
"Appliance" means any device that contains and uses a high-GWP refrigerant, including any refrigerator, chiller, freezer, or refrigeration system.
"CFR" means the United States Code of Federal Regulations.
"Chiller" means a system of equipment used for chilling consisting of one or more compressors, condensers, and evaporators, with interconnections and accessories, including controls, designed for the purpose of cooling or heating water or a heat transfer fluid. A chiller is a machine specifically designed to make use of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle or absorption refrigeration cycle to transfer heat from a cold water or heat transfer fluid circulating system to the air, a heat transfer fluid, or other heat exchange media. Chillers can be water-cooled, air-cooled, or evaporatively cooled. Chillers include, but are not limited to, rotary chillers, centrifugal chillers, and positive displacement chillers, including reciprocating, scroll, and screw chillers. "Chiller" includes those used for comfort cooling, space and area cooling, or industrial process cooling.
"Chlorofluorocarbon" or "CFC" means a class of compounds primarily used as refrigerants, consisting of only chlorine, fluorine, and carbon.
"Commercial refrigeration" means a refrigeration appliance used in the retail food and cold storage warehouse sectors. For purposes of this definition, "retail food" includes supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, and other food service establishments. "Cold storage" includes the storage of meat, produce, dairy products, and other perishable goods.
"Component," for purposes of N.J.A.C. 7:27E-2, means part of a refrigeration system or appliance (including condensing units, compressors, condensers, evaporators, and receivers) and all of its connections and subassemblies, without which the refrigeration system or appliance will not properly function or will be subject to failure.
"Construct" or "construction" means to fabricate or erect equipment or control apparatus at a facility where it is intended to be used, but shall not include the dismantling of existing equipment or control apparatus, site preparation, the ordering, receiving, temporary storage, installation of equipment or control apparatus, or the pouring of footings or placement of a foundation where equipment or control apparatus is intended to be used.
"Consumer Price Index" or "CPI" means the annual average percent change reflecting the change in the average index for all 12 months of one year to the average index for all months the next year, as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Control apparatus" means any device that prevents or controls the emission of any air contaminant, directly or indirectly, into the outdoor atmosphere.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
"Distillates of air" means helium (He), nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), and xenon (Xe).
"Equipment" means any device capable of causing the emission of an air contaminant, and any stack or chimney, conduit, flue, duct, vent, or similar device connected or attached to, or serving the equipment.
"Equipment type" means commercial refrigeration, industrial process refrigeration, or other refrigeration.
"Facility" means the combination of all structures, buildings, equipment, control apparatus, storage tanks, source operations, and other operations that are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and that are under common control of the same person or persons.
"Facility contact person" means any person that will serve as a point of communication with the Department and is knowledgeable about the facility's refrigeration system.
"Facility identification number" means a unique identifier assigned by the Department when a facility is registered pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:27E-2.
"Full charge" means the amount of refrigerant required in the refrigerant circuit for normal operating characteristics and conditions of a refrigeration system or appliance, as determined by using one of the following three methods:
1. The equipment manufacturer's specifications of the full charge;
2. A calculation based on component size, density of refrigerant, volume of piping, seasonal variances, and other relevant considerations; or
3. The midpoint of an established range for full charge based on the best available data regarding the normal operating characteristics and conditions for the system.
"Gas public utility" means a public utility, as that term is defined at N.J.S.A. 48:2-13, that distributes natural gas to end users within the State.
"Global warming potential" or "GWP" means the radiative forcing impact of one mass-based unit of a given greenhouse gas relative to an equivalent unit of carbon dioxide over a given period of time.
"Global warming potential value" or "GWP value" means the 100-year GWP value published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its report, IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4), and if not in AR4, the GWP value means the 100-year GWP value published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its report, IPCC, 2013: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (September 2013) (AR5). The 100-year GWP values are published in table 2.14 of the 2007 IPCC AR4, which table is incorporated by reference and available at
http://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter2-1.pdf
, and in Chapter 8, pp. 731-37, Appendix 8.A, which table is incorporated by reference and available at http://archive.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment- report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter08_FINAL.
"Grade 1 leak" means the grade classification of a leak that represents an existing or probable hazard to persons or property and requires prompt action, immediate repair, or continuous action until the conditions are no longer hazardous.
"Grade 2 leak" means the grade classification of a leak that is recognized as being not hazardous at the time of detection, but justifies scheduled repair, based on the potential for creating a future hazard.
"Grade 3 leak" means the grade classification of a leak that is not hazardous at the time of detection and can reasonably be expected to remain not hazardous.
"Grade classification" means the ranking of leaks and their probable hazard and need for repair.
"High-GWP refrigerant" means a compound used as a heat transfer fluid or gas that is a chlorofluorocarbon, a hydrochlorofluorocarbon, a hydrofluorocarbon, a perfluorocarbon, or any compound or blend of compounds with a 100-year GWP value equal to or greater than 150.
"Hydrochlorofluorocarbon" or "HCFC" means a class of compounds primarily used as refrigerants, consisting of only hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, and carbon.
"Hydrofluorocarbon" or "HFC" means a class of compounds primarily used as refrigerants, consisting of only hydrogen, fluorine, and carbon.
"Industrial process refrigeration" means complex customized appliances used in the chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries that are directly linked to the industrial process. "Industrial process refrigeration" includes industrial ice machines, appliances used directly in the generation of electricity, and ice rinks. Where one appliance is used for both industrial process refrigeration and other applications, it will be considered industrial process refrigeration equipment if 50 percent or more of its operating capacity is used for industrial process refrigeration.
"Initial refrigerant charge" means the quantity, in pounds, of high-GWP refrigerant added to a refrigeration system or appliance in order to bring the system to a full charge upon initial installation of a refrigeration system.
"Install" or "installation" means to carry out final setup activities necessary to provide equipment with the capacity for use or service. This term includes, but is not limited to, connection of equipment, associated utilities, piping, ductwork, or conveyor systems. This term does not include "construction," nor the reconfiguration of equipment to an alternate configuration specified in a permit application and approved by the Department. This term includes relocation of existing equipment.
"Leak identification number" means a unique identification number assigned by the gas public utility to each leak at a gas public utility. The leak identification number is comprised of the gas public utility identification number followed by a hyphen, followed by a three-digit number starting with 001 sequentially assigned to each unique leak at a gas public utility. For example, if a gas public utility has an identification number of 12345, then the leak identification number for the first leak would be 12345-001.
"Low temperature refrigeration system" means a commercial or industrial refrigeration system used for frozen products.
"Main" has the meaning defined for this term at 49 CFR 192.3. A main is a type of distribution line.
"Medium temperature refrigeration system" means a commercial or industrial refrigeration system used for chilled products.
"Normal operating characteristics and conditions" means a refrigeration system's operating temperatures, pressures, fluid flows, speeds, and other characteristics, including full charge of the refrigeration system, that would be expected for a given process load and ambient condition during operation. Normal operating characteristics and conditions are marked by the absence of atypical conditions affecting the operation of the refrigeration system.
"Operating" or "in operation," for the purposes of N.J.A.C. 7:27E-2, means the use of a refrigeration system for cooling or freezing. A refrigeration system is considered to be operating, or in operation for, the entirety of any calendar month where it is used for cooling or freezing in any manner for more than a total of 24 hours.
"Other refrigeration" means any stationary, non-residential appliance that is used for an application other than industrial process refrigeration, commercial refrigeration, or air-conditioning, or is used for two or more applications including industrial process refrigeration, commercial refrigeration, or air-conditioning.
"Perfluorocarbon" or "PFC" means a class of compounds consisting only of carbon and fluorine.
"Person" means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society, joint stock company, international entity, institution, county, municipality, state, interstate body, the United States of America, or any agency, board, commission, employee, agent, officer, or political subdivision of a state, an interstate body, or the United States of America.
"Pipeline" has the meaning defined for this term at N.J.A.C. 14:7-1.1A.
"Reclaim" has the meaning defined for this term at 40 CFR 82.152.
"Recover" means to remove refrigerant in any condition from an appliance and to store it in an external container without necessarily testing or processing it in any way.
"Refrigerant circuit" means the parts of a refrigeration system that are normally connected to each other (or are separated by isolation valves) and are designed to contain a high-GWP refrigerant. A single refrigerant circuit is defined by all piping and components that use refrigerant from a common reservoir of a high-GWP refrigerant.
"Refrigerant leak" means any discharge of refrigerant into the atmosphere from a refrigeration system.
"Refrigeration system" means stationary, non-residential equipment that is an industrial process refrigeration, commercial refrigeration, or other refrigeration appliance, with a single refrigerant circuit that requires 50 pounds or more of any combination of high-GWP refrigerant to maintain normal operating characteristics and conditions. Refrigeration system does not include an airconditioning appliance.
"Refrigeration system identification number" means a unique identification number that the owner or operator gives to each refrigeration system at a facility. The refrigeration system identification number is comprised of the facility identification number followed by a hyphen, followed by a threedigit number starting with 001 sequentially assigned to each unique refrigeration system at a facility. For example, if a facility has a facility identification number of 12345, then the identification number for the first refrigeration system would be 12345-001.
"Residential" means a residential dwelling containing four or fewer dwelling units on one lot or parcel.
"Responsible official" has the meaning defined for this term at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"Service line" has the meaning defined for this term at 49 CFR 192.3. A gas service line is a type of distribution line.
"Source operation" means any process, or any identifiable part thereof, that emits, or can reasonably be anticipated to emit, any air contaminant, either directly or indirectly, into the outdoor atmosphere. A source operation may include one or more pieces of equipment or control apparatus.
"Stationary" means meeting at least one of the following conditions:
1. Installed in a building, structure, or facility;
2. Attached to a foundation or, if not so attached, will reside in the same location for more than 12 consecutive months; or
3. Located at the same single location for at least two consecutive years and operates at that single location at least three months each year.