Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L01230:reg:33
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L01230
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 33
Character Range: 46290–48096

33  Monitoring requirements—fugitive leak measurement period
 (1) If an oil or gas fugitives (RTF) project includes a flare device at which only fugitive leak emissions are flared, the project proponent may choose a period that starts at or after the start of the first reporting period for the project to be the fugitive leak measurement period for the flare device.
Note: If there is no fugitive leak measurement period for the flare device, it must be continuously monitored (see section 19).
 (2) In choosing a period under subsection (1), the project proponent must ensure that the period:
 (a) covers the full range of operating conditions for the flare device that are likely to exist during the reporting periods for the project; and
 (b) is long enough to allow samples to be collected on enough occasions to produce a representative sample.
 (3) The project proponent must measure the gas quantity (the fugitive leak measurement gas quantity) passing through the flare device during the fugitive leak measurement period in accordance with section 31.
 (4) A period is to be disregarded for the purposes of working out the fugitive leak measurement gas quantity and the duration of the fugitive leak measurement period if the period is not a monitored operating period for the flare device.
 (5) If:
 (a) the fugitive leak measurement period in relation to a flare device has ended; and
 (b) there is a significant change in the equipment from which the fugitive leak emissions occur;
the flare device is taken not to have a fugitive leak measurement period at and after the time the change occurs.
 (6) Subsection (5) does not prevent the project proponent choosing a new period that starts at or after the time the change occurs to be the fugitive leak measurement period for the flare device.