South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-62 - Air Pollution Control Regulations and Standards › Subchapter 61-62.68 - Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions › Subpart A - General › Section 61-62.68.A.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
Terms used in Regulation 61-62.68 that are not defined
					 below or in Regulation 61-62.1, Section I, have the meaning given to them in
					 the Clean Air Act and in 40 CFR Part 68, Subpart A.
(a)
Accidental release
means an
				  unanticipated emission of a regulated substance or other extremely hazardous
				  substance into the ambient air from a stationary source.
(b)
Administrative controls
mean
				  written procedural mechanisms used for hazard control.
(c)
Administrator
means the
				  administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(d)
AIChE/CCPS
means the
				  American Institute of Chemical Engineers/Center for Chemical Process
				  Safety.
(e)
API
means
				  the American Petroleum Institute.
(f)
Article
means a manufactured
				  item, as defined under
				  29 CFR
				  1910.1200(b), that is formed
				  to a specific shape or design during manufacture, that has end use functions
				  dependent in whole or in part upon the shape or design during end use, and that
				  does not release or otherwise result in exposure to a regulated substance under
				  normal conditions of processing and use.
(g)
ASME
means the American
				  Society of Mechanical Engineers.
(h)
CAS
means the Chemical
				  Abstracts Service.
(i)
Catastrophic release
means a major uncontrolled emission, fire, or
				  explosion, involving one or more regulated substances that presents imminent
				  and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment.
(j)
CBI
means confidential
				  business information.
(k)
Classified information
means "classified information" as defined
				  in the Classified Information Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3, Section
				  1(a) as "any
				  information or material that has been determined by the United States
				  Government pursuant to an executive order, statute, or regulation, to require
				  protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national
				  security."
(l)
Condensate
means hydrocarbon liquid separated from natural gas
				  that condenses due to changes in temperature, pressure, or both, and remains
				  liquid at standard conditions.
(m)
Covered process
means a process that has a regulated substance
				  present in more than a threshold quantity as determined under Section
				  68.115.
(n)
Crude oil
means any naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum liquid.
(o)
DOT
means the United States
				  Department of Transportation.
(p)
Environmental receptor
means natural areas such as national or
				  state parks, forests, or monuments; officially designated wildlife sanctuaries,
				  preserves, refuges, or areas; and Federal wilderness areas, that could be
				  exposed at any time to toxic concentrations, radiant heat, or overpressure
				  greater than or equal to the endpoints provided in Section 68.22(a), as a
				  result of an accidental release and that can be identified on local U.S.
				  Geological Survey maps.
(q)
Field gas
means gas extracted from a production well before the
				  gas enters a natural gas processing plant.
(r)
Hot work
means work
				  involving electric or gas welding, cutting, brazing, or similar flame or
				  spark-producing operations.
(s)
Injury
means any effect on a human that results either from direct
				  exposure to toxic concentrations; radiant heat; or overpressures from
				  accidental releases or from the direct consequences of a vapor cloud explosion
				  (such as flying glass, debris, and other projectiles) from an accidental
				  release and that requires medical treatment or hospitalization.
(t)
LEPC
means local emergency
				  planning committee as established under
				  42
				  U.S.C. 11001(c).
(u)
Major change
means
				  introduction of a new process, process equipment, or regulated substance, an
				  alteration of process chemistry that results in any change to safe operating
				  limits, or other alteration that introduces a new hazard.
(v)
Mechanical integrity
means
				  the process of ensuring that process equipment is fabricated from the proper
				  materials of construction and is properly installed, maintained, and replaced
				  to prevent failures and accidental releases.
(w)
Medical treatment
means
				  treatment, other than first aid, administered by a physician or registered
				  professional personnel under standing orders from a physician.
(x)
Mitigation or mitigation system
means specific activities, technologies, or equipment designed or
				  deployed to capture or control substances upon loss of containment to minimize
				  exposure of the public or the environment. Passive mitigation means equipment,
				  devices, or technologies that function without human, mechanical, or other
				  energy input. Active mitigation means equipment, devices, or technologies that
				  need human, mechanical, or other energy input to function.
(y)
NAICS
means North American
				  Industry Classification System.
(z)
Natural gas processing plant (gas plant)
means any processing site
				  engaged in the extraction of natural gas liquids from field gas, fractionation
				  of mixed natural gas liquids to natural gas products, or both, classified as
				  North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code 211112 (previously
				  Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code 1321).
(aa)
NFPA
means the National
				  Fire Protection Association.
(bb)
Offsite
means areas beyond the property boundary of the stationary
				  source, and areas within the property boundary to which the public has routine
				  and unrestricted access during or outside business hours.
(cc)
OSHA
means the U.S.
				  Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(dd)
Owner or operator
means any
				  person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a stationary
				  source.
(ee)
Petroleum
				  refining process unit
means a process unit used in an establishment
				  primarily engaged in petroleum refining as defined in NAICS code 32411 for
				  petroleum refining (formerly SIC code 2911) and used for the following:
				  Producing transportation fuels (such as gasoline, diesel fuels, and jet fuels),
				  heating fuels (such as kerosene, fuel gas distillate, and fuel oils), or
				  lubricants; separating petroleum; or separating, cracking, reacting, or
				  reforming intermediate petroleum streams. Examples of such units include, but
				  are not limited to, petroleum based solvent units, alkylation units, catalytic
				  hydrotreating, catalytic hydrorefining, catalytic hydrocracking, catalytic
				  reforming, catalytic cracking, crude distillation, lube oil processing,
				  hydrogen production, isomerization, polymerization, thermal processes, and
				  blending, sweetening, and treating processes. Petroleum refining process units
				  include sulfur plants.
(ff)
Population
means the public.
(gg)
Process
means any activity
				  involving a regulated substance including any use, storage, manufacturing,
				  handling, or on-site movement of such substances, or combination of these
				  activities. For the purposes of this definition, any group of vessels that are
				  interconnected, or separate vessels that are located such that a regulated
				  substance could be involved in a potential release, shall be considered a
				  single process.
(hh)
Produced
				  water
means water extracted from the earth from an oil or natural gas
				  production well, or that is separated from oil or natural gas after
				  extraction.
(ii)
Public
means any person except employees or contractors at the stationary
				  source.
(jj)
Public receptor
means offsite residences, institutions (e.g., schools, hospitals),
				  industrial, commercial, and office buildings, parks, or recreational areas
				  inhabited or occupied by the public at any time without restriction by the
				  stationary source where members of the public could be exposed to toxic
				  concentrations, radiant heat, or overpressure, as a result of an accidental
				  release.
(kk)
Regulated
				  substance
means any substance listed pursuant to Section 112(r)(3) of
				  the Clean Air Act as amended, in Section 68.130.
(ll)
Replacement in kind
means a
				  replacement that satisfies the design specifications.
(mm)
Retail facility
means a
				  stationary source at which more than one-half of the income is obtained from
				  direct sales to end users or at which more than one-half of the fuel sold, by
				  volume, is sold through a cylinder exchange program.
(nn)
RMP
means the risk
				  management plan required under Subpart G.
(oo)
Stationary source
means any
				  buildings, structures, equipment, installations, or substance emitting
				  stationary activities which belong to the same industrial group, which are
				  located on one or more contiguous properties, which are under the control of
				  the same person (or persons under common control), and from which an accidental
				  release may occur. The term stationary source does not apply to transportation,
				  including storage incident to transportation, of any regulated substance or any
				  other extremely hazardous substance under the provisions of Regulation
				  61-62.68. A stationary source includes transportation containers used for
				  storage not incident to transportation and transportation containers connected
				  to equipment at a stationary source for loading or unloading. Transportation
				  includes, but is not limited to, transportation subject to oversight or
				  regulation under 49 CFR Parts 192, 193, or 195, or a state natural gas or
				  hazardous liquid program for which the state has in effect a certification to
				  DOT under
				  49 U.S.C. Section
				  60105. A stationary source does not include
				  naturally occurring hydrocarbon reservoirs. Properties shall not be considered
				  contiguous solely because of a railroad or pipeline right-of-way.
(pp)
Threshold quantity
means
				  the quantity specified for regulated substances pursuant to Section 112(r)(5)
				  of the Clean Air Act as amended, listed in Section 68.130 and determined to be
				  present at a stationary source as specified in Section 68.115.
(qq)
Typical meteorological conditions
means the temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, and atmospheric
				  stability class, prevailing at the site based on data gathered at or near the
				  site or from a local meteorological station.
(rr)
Vessel
means any reactor,
				  tank, drum, barrel, cylinder, vat, kettle, boiler, pipe, hose, or other
				  container.
(ss)
Worst-case
				  release
means the release of the largest quantity of a regulated
				  substance from a vessel or process line failure that results in the greatest
				  distance to an endpoint defined in Section 68.22(a).