Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-424 - Clean fuels program rule › Part 1 - OVERVIEW › Section 173-424-110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, the definitions
				  in this section apply throughout the chapter:
(1) "Above the rack" means sales of
				transportation fuel at pipeline origin points, pipeline batches in transit,
				barge loads in transit, and at terminal tanks before the transportation fuel
				has been loaded into trucks.
(2)
				"Advance credits" refers to credits advanced under WAC
				173-424-550 for actions that will
				result in reductions of the carbon intensity of Washington's transportation
				fuels.
(3) "Aggregation indicator"
				means an identifier for reported transactions that are a result of an
				aggregation or summing of more than one transaction in Washington fuels
				reporting system (WFRS). An entry of "true" indicates that multiple
				transactions have been aggregated and are reported with a single transaction
				number. An entry of "false" indicates that the transaction record represent a
				single fuel transaction.
(4)
				"Aggregator" or "credit aggregator" means a person who registers to participate
				in the clean fuels program, described in WAC
				173-424-140(3),
				on behalf of one or more credit generators to facilitate credit generation and
				to trade credits.
(5) "Aggregator
				designation form" means an ecology-approved document that specifies that a
				credit generator has designated an aggregator to act on its behalf.
(6) "Alternative fuel" means any
				transportation fuel that is not gasoline or a diesel fuel, including those
				fuels specified in WAC
				173-424-120(2).
(7) "Alternative fuel portal" or "AFP" means
				the portion of the WFRS where fuel producers can register their production
				facilities and submit fuel pathway code applications and physical pathway
				demonstrations.
(8) "Alternative
				jet fuel" means a fuel made from petroleum or nonpetroleum sources that can be
				blended and used with conventional petroleum jet fuels without the need to
				modify aircraft engines and existing fuel distribution infrastructure. To
				generate credits under this CFP, such fuel must have a lower carbon intensity
				than the applicable annual carbon intensity standard in Table 2 of WAC
				173-424-900. Alternative jet fuel
				includes those jet fuels derived from co-processed feedstocks at a conventional
				petroleum refinery.
(9) "Animal
				fat" means the inedible fat that originates from a rendering facility as a
				product of rendering the by-products from meat processing facilities including
				animal parts, fat, and bone. "Yellow grease" must be reported under an
				applicable animal fat pathway if evidence is not provided to the verifier or
				ecology to confirm the quantity that is animal fat and the quantity that is
				used cooking oil.
(10)
				"Application" means the type of vehicle where the fuel is consumed in terms of
				LDV/MDV for light-duty vehicle/medium-duty vehicle or HDV for heavy-duty
				vehicle.
(11) "Backstop aggregator"
				means a qualified entity approved by ecology under WAC
				173-424-220 to aggregate credits
				for electricity used as a transportation fuel, when those credits would not
				otherwise be generated.
(12) "Base
				credits" refers to electricity credits that are generated by the carbon
				reduction between the gasoline or diesel standard and the carbon intensity of
				utility electricity.
(13) "Battery
				electric vehicle" or "BEV" means any vehicle that operates solely by use of a
				battery or battery pack, or that is powered primarily through the use of an
				electric battery or battery pack but uses a flywheel or capacitor that stores
				energy produced by the electric motor or through regenerative braking to assist
				in vehicle operation.
(14) "Below
				the rack" means sales of clear or blended gasoline or diesel fuel where the
				fuel is being sold as a finished fuel for use in a motor vehicle.
(15) "Bill of lading" means a document issued
				that lists goods being shipped and specifies the terms of their
				transport.
(16) "Bio-CNG" means
				biomethane which has been compressed to CNG. Bio-CNG has equivalent performance
				characteristics when compared to fossil CNG.
(17) "Biodiesel" means a motor vehicle fuel
				consisting of mono alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from
				vegetable oils, animal fats, or other nonpetroleum resources, not including
				palm oil, designated as B100 and complying with ASTM D6751.
(18) "Biodiesel blend" means a fuel comprised
				of a blend of bio-diesel with petroleum-based diesel fuel, designated BXX. In
				the abbreviation BXX, the XX represents the volume percentage of biodiesel fuel
				in the blend.
(19) "Bio-L-CNG"
				means biomethane which has been compressed, liquefied, regasified, and
				recompressed into L-CNG, and has performance characteristics at least
				equivalent to fossil L-CNG.
(20)
				"Bio-LNG" means biomethane which has been compressed and liquefied into LNG.
				Bio-LNG has equivalent performance characteristics when compared to fossil
				LNG.
(21) "Biogas" means gas
				comprised primarily of methane and carbon dioxide, produced by the anaerobic
				decomposition of organic matter in a landfill, lagoon, or constructed reactor
				(digester). Biogas often contains a number of other impurities, such as
				hydrogen sulfide, and it cannot be directly injected into natural gas pipelines
				or combusted in most natural-gas-fueled vehicles unless first upgraded to
				biome-thane. It can be used as a fuel in boilers and engines to produce
				electrical power.
(22) "Biomass"
				means nonfossilized and biodegradable organic material originating from plants,
				animals, or microorganisms, including: Products, by-products, residues and
				waste from agriculture, forestry, and related industries; the nonfossilized and
				biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes; and gases
				and liquids recovered from the decomposition of nonfossilized and biodegradable
				organic material.
(23)
				"Biomass-based diesel" means a biodiesel or a renewable diesel.
(24) "Biomethane" means methane derived from
				biogas, or synthetic natural gas derived from renewable resources, including
				the organic portion of municipal solid waste, which has been upgraded to meet
				standards for injection to a natural gas common carrier pipeline, or for use in
				natural gas vehicles, natural gas equipment, or production of renewable
				hydrogen. Biomethane contains all of the environmental attributes associated
				with biogas and can also be referred to as renewable natural gas.
(25) "Blendstock" means a fuel component that
				is either used alone or is blended with one or more other components to produce
				a finished fuel used in a motor vehicle. Each blendstock corresponds to a fuel
				pathway in the Washington Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use
				in Transportation version 3.0 (WA-GREET 3.0) model, (November 28, 2022), which
				is incorporated herein by reference. A blendstock that is used directly as a
				transportation fuel in a vehicle is considered a finished fuel.
(26) "British thermal unit" or "Btu" means a
				measure of the heat content of fuels or energy sources. It is the quantity of
				heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of liquid water by one
				degree Fahrenheit at the temperature that water has its greatest density
				(approximately 39 degrees Fahrenheit).
(27) "Brown grease" means an emulsion of fat,
				oil, grease, solids, and water separated from wastewater in a grease
				interceptor (grease trap) and collected for use as a fuel feedstock. Brown
				grease must be reported under an applicable used cooking oil (UCO) pathway,
				i.e., reported as "unprocessed UCO" only if evidence is provided to the
				verifier or ecology to confirm that it has not been processed prior to receipt
				by the fuel production facility.
(28) "Bulk system" means a fuel distribution
				system consisting 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.
(29) "Business partner" refers to the second
				party that participates in a specific transaction involving the regulated
				party. This can either be the buyer or seller of fuel, whichever applies to the
				specific transaction.
(30)
				"Buy/sell board" means a section of the WFRS where registered parties can post
				that they are interested in buying or selling credits.
(31) "Carbon intensity" or "CI" means the
				amount of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy of fuel
				expressed in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule
				(gCO2e/MJ).
(32) "Cargo handling equipment" or "CHE"
				means any off-road, self-propelled vehicle or equipment, other than yard
				trucks, used at a port or intermodal rail yard to lift or move container, bulk,
				or liquid cargo carried by ship, train, or another vehicle, or used to perform
				maintenance and repair activities that are routinely scheduled or that are due
				to predictable process upsets. Equipment includes, but is not limited to,
				rubber-tired gantry cranes, top handlers, side handlers, reach stackers,
				loaders, aerial lifts, excavators, tractors, and dozers.
(33) "Carryback credit" means a credit that
				was generated during or before the prior compliance period that a regulated
				party acquires between January 1st and April 30th of the current compliance
				period to meet its compliance obligation for the prior compliance
				period.
(34) "Clean fuel standard"
				or "low carbon fuel standard" means the annual average carbon intensity a
				regulated party must comply with, as listed in Table 1 under WAC
				173-424-900 for gasoline and
				gasoline substitutes and in Table 2 under WAC
				173-424-900 for diesel fuel and
				diesel substitutes.
(35) "Clear
				diesel" means a light middle or middle distillate grade diesel fuel derived
				from crude oil that has not been blended with a renewable fuel.
(36) "Clear gasoline" means gasoline derived
				from crude oil that has not been blended with a renewable fuel.
(37) "Compliance period" means each calendar
				year during which regulated parties must demonstrate compliance under WAC
				173-424-140.
(38) "Compressed natural gas" or "CNG" means
				natural gas stored inside a pressure vessel at a pressure greater than the
				ambient atmospheric pressure.
(39)
				"Conventional jet fuel" means aviation turbine fuel including commercial and
				military jet fuel. Commercial jet fuel includes products known as Jet A, Jet
				A-1, and Jet B. Military jet fuel includes products known as JP-5 and
				JP-8.
(40) "Co-processing" means
				the processing and refining of renewable or alternative low-carbon feedstocks
				intermingled with crude oil and its derivatives at petroleum
				refineries.
(41) "Credit
				facilitator" means a person in the WFRS that a regulated party designates to
				initiate and complete credit transfers on behalf of the regulated
				party.
(42) "Credit generator"
				means a person eligible to generate credits by providing clean fuels for use in
				Washington and who voluntarily registers to participate in the clean fuels
				program.
(43) "Credits" and
				"deficits" mean the units of measure used for determining a regulated entity's
				compliance with the average carbon intensity requirements in WAC
				173-424-900. Credits and deficits
				are denominated in units of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
				(CO2e), and are calculated pursuant to WAC
				173-424-540 and
				173-424-560.
(44) "Crude oil" means any naturally
				occurring flammable mixture of hydrocarbons found in geologic
				formations.
(45) "Day" means a
				calendar day unless otherwise specified as a business day.
(46) "Deferral" means a delay or change in
				the applicability of a scheduled applicable clean fuel standard for a period of
				time, accomplished pursuant to an order issued under WAC
				173-424-720 or
				173-424-730 as directed under
				RCW
				   70A.535.110 and
				70A.535.120.
(47) "Deficit generator" means a fuel
				reporting entity who generates deficits in the CFP program.
(48) "Denatured fuel ethanol" or "ethanol"
				means nominally anhydrous ethyl alcohol meeting ASTM D4806 standards. It is
				intended to be blended with gasoline for use as a fuel in a spark-ignition
				internal combustion engine. Before it is blended with gasoline, the denatured
				fuel ethanol is first made unfit for drinking by the addition of substances
				approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
(49) "Diesel fuel" or "diesel" means either:
(a) A light middle distillate or middle
				distillate fuel suitable for compression ignition engines blended with not more
				than five volume percent biodiesel and conforming to the specifications of ASTM
				D975; or
(b) A light middle
				distillate or middle distillate fuel blended with at least five and not more
				than 20 volume percent biodiesel suitable for compression ignition engines
				conforming to the specifications of ASTM D7467.