Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 258 - MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL SPECIFICATIONS › Section 340-258-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The definitions in OAR
				340-200-0020,
				340-204-0010  and this
				rule apply to this division. If the same term is defined in this rule and
				340-200-0020 or
				340-204-0010, the
				definition in this rule applies to this division.
(1) "Attest Engagement" means a review of
			 nonfinancial records by a CPA.
(2)
			 "Averaging Period" means the period of time over which all gasoline sold or
			 dispensed for use in a control area by any control area responsible party must
			 comply with the average oxygen content standard.
(3) "Blend" means regular, unleaded, supreme
			 or other trade names for gasoline products containing differing levels of
			 octane.
(4) "Blender Control Area
			 Responsible Party (Blender CAR)" means a person who owns oxygenated gasoline
			 which is sold or dispensed from a control area oxygenate blending
			 facility.
(5) "Bulk gasoline
			 terminal" means a gasoline storage facility which receives gasoline from
			 refineries primarily by pipeline, ship, or barge, and delivers gasoline to bulk
			 gasoline plants or to commercial or retail accounts primarily by tank
			 truck.
(6) "Carrier" means any
			 person who transports, stores, or causes the transportation or storage of
			 gasoline at any point in the gasoline distribution network, without taking
			 title to or otherwise having ownership of the gasoline and without altering the
			 quality or quantity of the gasoline.
(7) "Control Area" means a geographic area
			 listed in OAR
			 340-204-0090  in which only gasoline that meets the requirements of
			 340-258-0110  through
			 340-258-0310  may be sold or dispensed.
(8)
			 "Control Area Oxygenate Blending Facility" means any facility or truck at which
			 oxygenate is added to gasoline that is intended for use in any control area,
			 and at which the quality and quantity of gasoline is not otherwise altered,
			 except through the addition of deposit-control additives.
(9) "Control Area Responsible Party (CAR)"
			 means a person who owns gasoline and/or oxygenates that is sold or dispensed
			 from a control area terminal.
(10)
			 "Control Area Terminal" means a terminal storage facility that is capable of
			 receiving gasoline in bulk by pipeline or marine vessel, or at which gasoline
			 is altered either in quantity or quality, excluding the addition of deposit
			 control additives. Gasoline that is intended for use in any control area is
			 sold or dispensed into trucks at these control area terminals.
(11) "Control Period" means the period from
			 November 1 through February 29, during which oxygenated gasoline must be sold
			 or dispensed within the control area.
(12) "Department" means the Department of
			 Environmental Quality.
(13)
			 "Distributor" means a person who transports or stores or causes the
			 transportation or storage of gasoline at any point between a gasoline refinery
			 or importer's facility and any retail outlet or wholesale purchaser-consumer's
			 facility.
(14) "EPA" means the U.S.
			 Environmental Protection Agency.
(15) "EPA Substantially Similar Ruling" means
			 a fuel or fuel additive for general use in light-duty vehicles manufactured
			 after the model year 1974, that is substantially similar to a fuel or fuel
			 additive used to certify a model year 1975 or newer vehicle or engine under
42 U.S.C. 7525
(Clean Air Act, Section 206), as amended through
			 November 15, 1990 and any amendments or modifications thereto, and as specified
			 in EPA's Interpretative Ruling at
56 Federal Register 5352 - 5356
,
			 revised through February 11, 1991, and that the EPA has ruled meets the
			 following criteria:
(a) The fuel contains
			 carbon, hydrogen, and any or all of the elements of oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur
			 exclusively, with the exception of trace levels of impurities which produce
			 gaseous combustion products, in the form of some combination of:
(A) Hydrocarbons;
(B) Aliphatic ethers;
(C) Aliphatic alcohols other than
			 methanol;
(D) Up to 0.3 percent
			 methanol by volume;
(E) Up to
			 2.75percent methanol by volume with an equal amount of butanol, or high
			 molecular weight alcohol; or
(F) A
			 fuel additive at a concentration of no more than 0.25 percent by weight which
			 contributes no more than 15 ppm sulfur by weight to the fuel.