West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 196 - Diesel Equipment Commission › Title 196 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DIESEL EQUIPMENT COMMISSION › Series 196-01 - Rules For Operating Diesel Equipment In Underground Mines In WV › Section 196-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. For the purposes of this article, the
				words or phrases defined in this part 2 have the meanings ascribed to them.
				These definitions are applicable unless a different meaning clearly appears
				from the context.
2.2. When used in
				this article, the words and phrases defined in section two, article one of this
				chapter have the meaning ascribed to them in that section. Those definitions
				are applicable to this article unless a different meaning clearly appears from
				the context in which the word or phrase is used in this article.
2.3. "Board" means the board of coal mine
				health and safety continued by section three, article six of this
				chapter.
2.4. "Certificate of
				approval" means a formal document issued by MSHA stating that a complete
				assembly has met the requirements of part 36, title thirty of the code of
				federal regulations,  30 C.F.R. §36.1, et seq., for mobile diesel-powered
				transportation equipment and authorizing the use and attachment of an official
				approval plate so indicating.
2.5.
				"Commission" means the West Virginia diesel equipment commission created under
				the provisions of section three hundred one of this article.
2.6. "Diesel fuel tank" means a closed metal
				vessel specifically designed for the storage or transport of diesel
				fuel.
2.7. Diesel fuel
				transportation unit" means a self-propelled or portable wheeled vehicle used to
				transport a diesel fuel tank.
2.8.
				"Diesel engine" means any compression ignition internal combustion engine using
				the basic diesel cycle where combustion results from the spraying of fuel into
				air heated by compression.
2.9.
				"Diesel power package" means a diesel engine with an intake system, exhaust
				system, and a safety shutdown system installed that meets the specific
				requirements for MSHA approval of diesel power packages intended for use in
				approved equipment in areas of underground coal mines where electric equipment
				is required to be permissible.
2.10. "Exhaust emission" means any substance
				emitted to the atmosphere from the exhaust port of the combustion chamber of a
				diesel engine.
2.11. "Exhaust
				emissions control and conditioning system" means a device or combination of
				devices that will collect and treat diesel exhaust emissions at the exhaust
				port of the engine, and will reduce the volume of, or eliminate emissions of,
				diesel particulate matter, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen in accordance
				with the requirements and standards of the commission established in accordance
				with the provisions of section four hundred three of this article.
2.12. "MSHA" means the mine safety and health
				administration of the United States Department of Labor.
2.13. "Permanent underground diesel fuel
				storage facility" means a facility designed and constructed to remain at one
				location for the storage or dispensing of diesel fuel, which does not move as
				mining progresses.
2.14. "Safety
				can" means a metal container intended for storage, transport or dispensing of
				diesel fuel, with a nominal capacity of five gallons, listed or approved by a
				nationally recognized independent testing laboratory.
2.15. "Temporary underground diesel fuel
				storage area" means an area of a mine provided for the short-term storage of
				diesel fuel in a fuel transportation unit, which moves as mining
				progresses.