North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 02 - AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 42 - GAS AND OIL INSPECTION › Section .0100 - PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS › Section 42 .0102 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
Except as otherwise defined in Chapter 119, North Carolina
				  General Statutes, the definitions applicable in this Chapter are as
				  follows:
(1) "ASTM" means ASTM
				International.
(2) "Approved lead
				substitute" means an EPA registered gasoline additive formulated to reduce
				valve seat recession in engines designed to operate on leaded
				gasoline.
(3) "Biodiesel" means a
				fuel comprised of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from
				vegetable oils or animal fats, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of
				ASTM D 6751.
(4) "Biodiesel Blend"
				means a blend of biodiesel meeting ASTM D 6751 with petroleum-based diesel fuel
				meeting ASTM D 975 or fuel oil meeting ASTM D 396 and designated BXX, where XX
				represents the volume percentage of biodiesel in the blend.
(5) "Board" means the Gasoline and Oil
				Inspection Board.
(6) "Cetane
				number" means the relative ignition quality of diesel fuels by the ASTM Cetane
				Method D 613.
(7) "Denatured fuel
				ethanol" means ethanol meeting the provisions of ASTM D 4806, "Standard
				Specification for Denatured Fuel Ethanol to be Blended with Gasolines for Use
				as an Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel."
(8) "Director" means the Director of the
				Standards Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer
				Services.
(9) "Distributor" means
				any person who transports or stores or causes the transportation or storage of
				gasoline at any point between any gasoline refinery or importer's facility and
				any retail outlet or wholesale purchaser-consumer's facility.
(10) "E85" means a petroleum product that is
				a blend of denatured ethanol and gasoline or natural gasoline of which the
				ethanol portion is nominally 70 to 85 percent ethanol by volume and meeting the
				requirements of ASTM D 5798.
(11)
				"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(12) "Leaded" means any gasoline or
				gasoline-oxygenate blend which contains more than 0.05 gram lead per U.S.
				gallon (0.013 gram lead per liter) or contains an approved lead substitute
				which provides a lead equivalency of at least 0.10 gram lead per U.S. gallon
				(0.026 gram per liter).
(13)
				"Liquefied petroleum gas" means any material which is composed predominantly of
				any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of same: propane, propylene,
				butanes (normal or iso-butane), and butylenes.
(14) "Motor Octane Number" means the number
				describing the relative anti-knock characteristic of a motor fuel determined by
				ASTM Motor Method (D 2700).
(15)
				"NCWM" means the National Conference on Weights and Measures.
(16) "NIST" means the National Institute of
				Standards and Technology.
(17)
				"Octane Index" means the number obtained by adding the research octane number
				and the motor octane number and dividing the sum by two.
(18) "Oxygenate" means any substance which,
				when added to gasoline, increases the amount of oxygen in that gasoline, and
				which has been approved by EPA for use in gasoline.
(19) "Premium Diesel" means a refined middle
				distillate petroleum product that meets the specifications of ASTM D 975 and
				NIST Handbook 130, Uniform Engine Fuels, Petroleum Products and Automotive
				Lubricants Regulation, section 2.2.1.
(20) "Qualitative word or term" means any
				word or term used in a brand name which by definition or customary usage
				indicates a level of quality, classification, grade, or designation.
(21) "Regular" when used as part of a brand
				name or as a grade designation for gasoline or gasoline-oxygenate blend shall
				be construed to mean an unleaded regular grade commercial automotive gasoline
				or gasoline-oxygenate blend.
(22)
				"Renewable Diesel Fuel" means a fuel which is not a mono-alkyl ester; meets the
				registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the
				Environmental Protection Agency under section 7545 of the Clean Air Act; is
				intended for use in engines that are designed to run on conventional, petroleum
				derived diesel fuel; is derived from nonpetroleum renewable resources
				including, but not limited to, vegetable oil, animal wastes, including poultry
				fats and poultry wastes, and other waste materials, or municipal solid waste
				and sludges and oils derived from wastewater and the treatment of wastewater;
				and meets the latest version of ASTM specification D 975.
(23) "Research Octane Number" means the
				number describing the relative anti-knock characteristic of a motor fuel
				determined by ASTM Research Method (D 2699).
(24) "Retail" means the sale or offering for
				sale of gasoline to the ultimate consumer for use in a motor vehicle.
(25) "Substantially Similar" rule means the
				United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Substantially Similar" rule,
				Section 211 (f) (1) of the Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 7545(f)
				(1)].
(26) "Terminal" means a facility at which
				gasoline is dispensed into trucks for transportation to retail outlets or
				wholesale purchaser-consumer facilities.
(27) "Unleaded" means any gasoline or
				gasoline-oxygenate blend to which no lead or phosphorus compounds have been
				intentionally added and which contains not more than 0.05 gram lead per U.S.
				gallon (0.013 gram lead per liter) and not more than 0.005 gram phosphorus per
				U.S. gallon (0.0013 gram phosphorus per liter).
Authority
				  G.S.
				  119-26;
				  119-26.1;
Eff.
				  December 1, 1981;
Amended Eff. July 1, 2008; September 1, 1992; May
				  1, 1990; April 1, 1989; June 1, 1987;
Pursuant to
				  G.S.
				  150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
				  substantive public interest Eff. September 19,
				  2015.