New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter III - AIR RESOURCES › Subchapter A - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR CONTAMINATION AND AIR POLLUTION › Part 242 - CO[2] Budget Trading Program › Subpart 242-10 - CO[2] EMISSIONS OFFSET PROJECTS › Section 242-10.2 - CO[2] emissions offset definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) 'Anaerobic digester'. A device that
					 promotes the decomposition of organic material to simple organics and gaseous
					 biogas products, in the absence of elemental oxygen, usually accomplished by
					 means of controlling temperature and volume, and including a methane recovery
					 system.
(b) 'Anaerobic digestion'.
					 The decomposition of organic material including manure brought about through
					 the microorganisms in the absence of elemental oxygen.
(c) 'Anaerobic storage'. Storage of organic
					 material in an oxygen-free environment, or under oxygen-free conditions,
					 including but not limited to, holding tanks, ponds, and lagoons.
(d) 'ANSI'. American National Standards
					 Institute.
(e) 'Biogas'. Gas
					 resulting from the decomposition of organic matter under anaerobic conditions.
					 The principle constituents are methane and carbon dioxide.
(f) 'CO2e'.
					 CO2e means carbon dioxide equivalent.
(g) 'Conflict of interest'. A situation that
					 may arise with respect to an individual in relation to any specific project
					 sponsor, CO2 emissions offset project or category of
					 offset projects, such that the individual's other activities or relationships
					 with other persons or organizations render or may render the individual
					 incapable of providing an impartial certification opinion, or otherwise
					 compromise the individual's objectivity in performing certification
					 functions.
(h) 'Cooperating
					 regulatory agency'. A regulatory agency in a state or United States
					 jurisdiction that is not a participating state that has entered into a
					 memorandum of understanding with the appropriate regulatory agencies of all
					 participating states to carry out certain obligations relative to
					 CO2 emissions offset projects in that state or United
					 States jurisdiction, including but not limited to the obligation to perform
					 audits of offset project sites, and report violations of this
					 Subpart.
(i) 'Independent
					 verifier'. An individual that has been approved by the department or its agent
					 to conduct verification activities.
(j) 'Market penetration rate'. A measure of
					 the diffusion of a technology, product, or practice in a defined market, as
					 represented by the percentage of annual sales for a product or practice, or as
					 a percentage of the existing installed stock for a product or category of
					 products, or as the percentage of existing installed stock that utilizes a
					 practice. The department may determine an appropriate market definition and
					 market penetration metric for a category of technology, product or practice,
					 and may issue guidance specifying the technologies, products or practices that
					 meet a specified market penetration rate.
(k) 'Offset project'. An offset project
					 includes all equipment, materials, items, or actions directly related to the
					 reduction of CO2 equivalent emissions or the
					 sequestration of carbon specified in a consistency application submitted
					 pursuant to section
					 242-10.4  of
					 this Part. Equipment, materials, items, or actions unrelated to an offset
					 project reduction of CO2 equivalent emissions or the
					 sequestration of carbon, but occurring at a location where an offset project
					 occurs, shall not be considered part of an offset project, unless specified at
					 section
					 242-10.5 
					 of this Subpart.
(l) 'Permanently
					 retired'. A greenhouse gas allowance or credit has been "permanently retired"
					 if it has been placed in a retirement account controlled by the jurisdiction
					 that generated the allowance or credit, or has been placed in an allowance
					 retirement account controlled by the department, or is otherwise determined by
					 the department to have been rendered unusable.
(m) 'Project commencement'. For an offset
					 project involving physical construction, other work at an offset project site,
					 or installation of equipment or materials, the date of the beginning of such
					 activity. For an offset project that involves the implementation of a
					 management activity or protocol, the date on which such activity is first
					 implemented or such protocol first utilized.
(n) 'Regional-type anaerobic digester'. An
					 anaerobic digester using feedstock from more than one agricultural operation,
					 or importing feedstock from more than one agricultural operation. Also commonly
					 referred to as a "community digester" or "centralized digester."
(o) 'Renewable portfolio standard'. A
					 statutory or regulatory requirement that a load-serving entity provide a
					 certain portion of the electricity it supplies to its customers from renewable
					 energy sources, or any other statutory or regulatory requirement that a certain
					 portion of electricity supplied to the electricity grid be generated from
					 renewable energy sources.
(p)
					 'System benefit fund'. Any fund collected directly from retail electricity or
					 natural gas ratepayers.
(q) 'Total
					 solids'. Total solids are the total of all solids in a sample. They include the
					 total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, and volatile suspended
					 solids.
(r) 'Transmission and/or
					 distribution entity'. The assets and equipment used to transmit and distribute
					 electricity from an electric generator to the electrical load of a customer.
					 Includes all related assets and equipment located within the service territory
					 of the entity, defined as the service territory of a load-serving entity
					 specified by the applicable state department.
(s) 'Verification'. The determination by an
					 independent verifier that certain parts of a CO2
					 emissions offset project consistency application and/or measurement, monitoring
					 or verification report conform to the requirements of this Subpart.
(t) 'Volatile solids'. The fraction of total
					 solids that is comprised primarily of organic matter as defined in U.S. EPA
					 Method Number 160.4, Methods for the Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes
					 (MCAWW) (EPA/600/4-79/020)(see Table 1, section
					 200.9  of this
					 Title).