Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 215 - OREGON GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING PROGRAM › Section 340-215-0020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The definitions in OAR 340-200-0020  and this rule apply to this
				division. If the same term is defined in this rule and OAR 340-200-0020, the
				definition in this rule applies to this division.
(1) "Asset-controlling supplier" or "ACS"
			 means a person that owns or operates inter-connected electricity generating
			 facilities or has exclusive rights to claim electricity from these facilities
			 even though it does not own them, and that has been designated by DEQ as an
			 asset-controlling supplier under OAR 340-215-0120(7)  and received a
			 DEQ-published emission factor. Asset controlling suppliers are specified
			 sources.
(2) "Biogas" means gas
			 that is produced from the breakdown of biomass in the absence of oxygen,
			 including anaerobic digestion, anaerobic decomposition, and thermochemical
			 decomposition.
(3) "Biogenic CO2
			 emissions" means carbon dioxide emissions generated as the result of biomass or
			 biomass-derived fuel combustion or oxidation.
(4) "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 matter.
(5) "Biomass fuels" or "biofuels" or
			 "biomass-derived fuels" means fuels derived from biomass.
(6) "Biomethane" means refined biogas, or
			 another synthetic stream of methane produced from biomass feedstock, that has
			 been upgraded to meet pipeline quality standards or transportation fuel grade
			 requirements, such that it may blend with, or substitute for, natural
			 gas.
(7) "Book and Claim" refers to
			 the accounting methodology where the environmental attributes of an energy
			 source are detached from the physical molecules when they are commingled into a
			 common transportation and distribution system for that form of energy. The
			 detached attributes are then assigned by the owner to the same form and amount
			 of energy when it is used. For the purposes of this division, the common
			 transportation and distribution system must be connected to Oregon and must
			 allow for the transport of the specific form of energy that is booked and
			 claimed.
(8) "Bulk
			 transfer/terminal system" means a fuel distribution system consisting of one or
			 more 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.
(9) "Busbar" means a power conduit of a
			 facility with electricity generating units that serves as the starting point
			 for the electricity transmission system.
(10) "Carbon dioxide supplier" means a
			 facility with production process units or production wells that capture,
			 extract, or produce CO2 for on-site use, commercial
			 application, or 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. The definition does not include
			 transportation, distribution, purification, compression, or processing of
			 CO2.
(11) "Cease to operate" for
			 the purposes of this division means the regulated entity did not operate any
			 GHG -emitting processes for an entire year. Continued operation of space
			 heaters and water heaters as necessary until operations are restarted in a
			 subsequent year does not preclude a source from meeting this
			 definition.
(12) "C.F.R." means
			 Code of Federal Regulations and unless otherwise expressly identified refers to
			 the December 9, 2016 edition.
(13)
			 "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.
(14)
			 "Compressed natural gas" or "CNG" means natural gas stored inside a pressure
			 vessel at a pressure greater than the ambient atmospheric pressure outside of
			 the vessel, (though not to the point of liquefaction), typically to pressures
			 ranging from 2900 to 3600 pounds per square inch.
(15) "Consumer-owned utility" means a
			 people's utility district organized under ORS Chapter 261, a municipal utility
			 organized under ORS Chapter 225, or an electric cooperative organized under ORS
			 Chapter 62.
(16) "Data year" means
			 the calendar year in which emissions occurred.
(17) "Designated representative" means the
			 person responsible for certifying, signing, and submitting a greenhouse gas
			 emissions data report, and any registration or report required to be submitted
			 under this division, on behalf of a regulated entity. For owners or operators
			 of Oregon Title V Operating Permits the designated representative is the
			 responsible official and certification must be consistent with OAR
			 340-218-0040(5).
(18) "Direct
			 emissions" means emissions from a stationary source, including but not limited
			 to fuel combustion activities, process related emissions, and fugitive
			 emissions.
(19) "EIA" means the
			 Energy Information Administration. The Energy Information Administration (EIA)
			 is a statistical agency of the United States Department of Energy.
(20) "Electricity 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.
(21) "Electricity
			 service supplier" has the meaning given that term in ORS
			 757.600.
(22) "Electricity supplier" means persons
			 that import, sell, allocate, or distribute electricity to end users in the
			 state, including but not limited to the following types of entities:
(a) Investor-owned utilities;
(b) Electricity service suppliers;
			 and
(c) Consumer-owned
			 utilities.