Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 15 - Fuel Inspection › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 165:15-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In addition to the terms defined in 17 O.S. §§ 301
				  et seq., the following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have
				  the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"API (American Petroleum Institute) gravity
				  scale"
means the gravity scale in general use by the petroleum industry
				  in the United States.
"ASTM"
means the American Society for Testing
				  and Materials. The latest ASTM revision must be the test used and is expressly
				  incorporated in this Chapter.
"ATG"
means an automatic tank gauging
				  system.
"Aboveground storage tank"
or
"AST"
means a "Storage tank" as defined in 17 O.S. § 303(40) that has more than
				  ninety percent (90%) of its volume above the surface of the ground.
"Airport"
means landing facility for aircraft
				  that is routinely available for public use (whether routinely used or not).
				  Airports as used in this Chapter do not include private residential airstrips
				  or private airports.
"Analog type"
means an indicating element or a
				  system of indication or recording in which values are presented as a series of
				  numbered graduations in combination with an index, and in which the most
				  sensitive element of the indicating system moves continuously during the
				  operation of the device.
"Ancillary equipment"
means any device
				  including, but not limited to, devices such as piping, fittings, flanges,
				  valves, and pumps that are used to distribute, meter, or control the flow of
				  regulated substances to or from a petroleum storage tank.
"Aviation gasoline"
means a volatile hydrocarbon
				  fuel suitable for use in an aircraft internal combustion engine.
"Bulk plant"
means a petroleum storage tank
				  facility where regulated substances are received by tank vessels, pipelines,
				  tank cars or tank vehicles and are stored or blended in mass quantities or bulk
				  for the purpose of distribution by a tank vessel, pipeline, tank car, tank
				  vehicle, portable tank or other container, for wholesale or retail sale.
"Calibrate"
or
"Calibration"
means
				  the comparison of the indicated volume to the volume actually delivered by a
				  retail or wholesale device into a certified test measure, prover, or through a
				  second accurate meter.
"Cathodic protection"
means a technique designed
				  to prevent the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an
				  electrochemical cell. For example, protection can be accomplished with an
				  impressed current system or a galvanic anode system.
"Computing type"
means a device designed to
				  indicate and measure the total money value of product for one of a series of
				  unit prices.
"Digital type"
means a system of indicating or
				  recording that advances intermittently in which all values are presented
				  digitally and without graduations.
"Face of the dispenser"
means that side of a
				  measuring device that displays the quantity measured. The face must include an
				  indicator and a series of graduations or present values digitally. It is the
				  side of the dispenser where the unit price, volume dispensed, and dollar amount
				  of the sale appear.
"Fuel Specialist"
means any field inspector
				  employed by the Compliance and Inspection Department of the Petroleum Storage
				  Tank Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
"Formal Enforcement Action"
means the process of
				  ensuring compliance with Commission regulations, rules, orders, requirements,
				  standards, and/or state law when a violation occurs and PSTD initiates an
				  enforcement Complaint under the contempt procedure in OAC 165:5 Subchapter 19
				  to be heard at the Commission by an Administrative Law Judge or the
				  Commissioners.
"Gasoline"
means a volatile unleaded fuel that
				  is suitable for use in a spark ignition, internal combustion engine.
"Gum"
means the evaporation residue of aircraft
				  gasoline or the heptane insoluble portion of the evaporation residue of motor
				  gasoline.
"Important building"
means a building that is
				  considered not expendable in an exposure fire.
"Index of an indicator"
means that particular
				  portion of an indicator that is directly used in making a reading.
"Indicating element"
means that component
				  located on the face of the dispenser that signifies the amount relative to a
				  quantity measured by a measuring device.
"Kerosene"
means a refined hydrocarbon fuel
				  intended for use in heating and illumination.
"Liquid measuring device"
or
"liquid fuel
				  device"
means any and all measuring devices (retail, wholesale, or
				  vehicle tank measure) with which gasoline, motor fuel, kerosene, motor oil,
				  diesel fuel, or aviation gasoline is sold, dispensed, or delivered to the
				  public or to any person for any purpose.
"MtBE"
means methyl tertiary butyl used as a
				  component in gasoline.
"Maintenance"
means the normal operational
				  upkeep necessary to prevent a petroleum storage tank system from releasing
				  product.
"Measuring device"
or
"meter"
means
				  a measuring device as defined in 17 O.S. § 303(23).
"Observation well"
means a cased and screened
				  boring or drilled hole, installed within the tank excavation or piping trench
				  that can be used for the continuous or periodic evaluation of groundwater
				  quality or the detection of soil vapors as a method of release detection.
"Octane",
or
"octane number",
or
"octane rating"
means the antiknock quality of gasoline as
				  determined by either the ASTM Research Method or the ASTM Motor Method.
"Oxygenate"
means ethyl alcohol, MtBE, TAME, or
				  other oxygen-containing, ashless organic compounds.
"Permanent out of use"
or
"POU"
means a petroleum storage tank system that is not in service/use, does not
				  contain regulated substances, and is not intended to be placed back in
				  service/use.
"Petroleum"
means the substances as set forth in
				  17 O.S. § 303(31). It does not include 100% biodiesel, compressed natural
				  gas, liquid natural gas, methanol, or propane.
"Primary indicating elements"
or
"recording elements"
means those principal visual indicating
				  elements and recording elements that may be used by an owner or operator in the
				  normal commercial use of a device and which are readily visible to the public.
"Private airport"
means an airport used only by
				  its owner and regulated by PSTD as a fleet and commercial facility.
"PSTD"
means Petroleum Storage Tank
				  Division.
"(R+M)/2"
means the arithmetic mean of the ASTM
				  Research Method (R) and the ASTM Motor Method (M) octane numbers, and is the
				  octane rating.
"Regulated substance"
means antifreeze, motor
				  oil, motor fuel, gasoline, kerosene, diesel or aviation fuel as set forth in 17
				  O.S. § 305. It does not include compressed natural gas, liquid natural gas
				  or propane.
"Retail device"
means a measuring device or
				  mechanism designed for single deliveries of PSTD regulated substances to
				  individual land, air, and water vehicles.
"Retail facility "
means a service station,
				  convenience store or any other facility selling a PSTD regulated substance that
				  is open to the general public.
"SIR"
means Statistical Inventory
				  Reconciliation.
"Security Seal"
or
"seal"
or
"lock/locking mechanism"
means a lead and wire seal, lock or
				  locking device, or similar device, attached to a petroleum storage tank system
				  for protection against access, removal, or adjustment.
"TAME"
means tertiary amyl methyl ether for use
				  as a component in gasoline.
"Temporary out of use"
or
"TOU"
means the status of a petroleum storage tank system that has been taken out of
				  service/use with the intent to permanently close or return to service.
"Tolerance"
means a value fixing the limit of
				  allowable error or departure from the highest performance or value.
"Transport calibration"
or
"truck
				  calibration"
means the volume held to the designated marker as
				  determined by the addition of a calibration fluid to the compartment from an
				  accurate meter or from provers.
"Underground storage tank"
or
"UST"
means a "Storage tank" as defined in 17 O. S. § 303(40) that has 10
				  percent (10%) or more of its volume beneath the surface of the ground.
"Underground storage tank system"
means a
				  closed-plumbed system including, but not limited to the underground storage
				  tank(s), the individual storage tank compartments, the lines, dispenser for a
				  given product, containment sump, if any, and ancillary equipment or a delivery
				  truck that is connected to the storage tank system.
"Wet-hose type"
means a device designed to be
				  operated with the discharge hose full of liquid at all times.
"Wholesale device"
means any device other than a
				  retail device.
Amended at 9 Ok Reg
				  2329, eff 6-25-92; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 1052, eff 5-11-01; Amended at 19 Ok Reg
				  1603, eff 6-13-02; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 1650, eff
				  7-1-06