Ariz. Admin. Code § 3-7-701

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R3-7-701 - Definitions

In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. § 3-3401 and R3-7-101, the following definitions apply to this Article unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Address" means a street number, street name, city, state, and zip code.

2. "Arizona CBG" means Arizona cleaner burning gasoline, and is a gasoline blend that meets the requirements of this Article for gasoline produced and shipped to or within Arizona and sold or offered for sale for use in motor vehicles within the CBG-covered area, except as provided under A.R.S. §§ 3-3493(I) and 3-3494(H).

3. "AZRBOB" means "Arizona Reformulated Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending" and is a combination of gasoline blendstocks that is intended to be or represented to constitute Arizona CBG upon the addition of a specified amount (or range of amounts) of an oxygenate not prohibited by A.R.S. § 3-3491(E) after the blendstock is supplied from the facility at which it was produced or imported.

4. "Batch" means a quantity of motor fuel or AZRBOB that is homogeneous for motor fuel properties specific for the motor fuel standards applicable to that motor fuel or AZRBOB.

5. "Biodiesel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

6. "Biodiesel blend" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401. Per ASTM D975, diesel fuel may contain 5% or less biodiesel and is not considered to be a biodiesel blend.

7. "Biofuel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

8. "Biofuel blend" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

9. "Biofuel blender" means a person that modifies a motor fuel by adding a biofuel.

10. "Biofuel producer" means a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a facility at which biofuel is produced.

11. "Biofuel Supplier" means a marketer or jobber of a biofuel or biofuel blend.

12. "Biomass" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

13. "Biomass-based diesel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

14. "Biomass-based diesel blend" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

15. "Blendstock" means any liquid compound that is blended with another liquid compound to produce a motor fuel, including Arizona CBG. A deposit-control or similar additive registered under 40 CFR 79 is not a blendstock.

16. "CARBOB Model" means the requirements and procedures incorporated by reference in R3-7-702(12) and (13).

17. "CBG Blender" means a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises any facility, other than a refinery or transmix processing facility, where AZRBOB or Arizona CBG is produced by combining blendstocks or by combining blendstocks with fuel. Types of blending facilities include, but are not limited to, terminals, storage tanks, plants, tanker trucks, retail outlets, and marine vessels.

18. "CBG-covered area" means:

a. A county with a population of 1,200,000 or more persons according to the most recent United States decennial census;

b. Any portion of a county within area A; and

c. Any portion of a county within area C from June 1 through September 30 of each year.

19. "Conventional gasoline" means gasoline that conforms to the requirements of this Chapter for sale or use in Arizona, but does not meet the requirements of Arizona CBG or AZRBOB.

20. "Diesel fuel" or "Diesel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401. Per ASTM D975, diesel fuel may contain 5% or less biodiesel.

21. "Duplicate" means a portion of a sample that is treated the same as the original sample to determine the accuracy and precision of an analytical method.

22. "E15" means gasoline that contains more than 10 and no more than 15 volume percent ethanol.

23. "EPA waiver" means a waiver granted by EPA as described in "Waiver Requests under Section 211(f) of the Clean Air Act," which is incorporated by reference in R3-7-702(6).

24. "Ethanol" means an alcohol of the chemical formula C2H5OH. Ethanol is provided in gasoline-ethanol blends by blending denatured fuel ethanol.

25. "Ethanol flex fuel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

26. "Final destination" means the name and address of the location to which a transferee will deliver motor fuel for further distribution or final consumption.

27. "Final distribution facility" means a stationary motor-fuel transfer point at which motor fuel or AZRBOB is transferred into a cargo tank truck, pipeline, or other delivery vessel from which the motor fuel or AZRBOB will be delivered to a motor-fuel dispensing site. A cargo tank truck is a final distribution facility if the cargo tank truck transports motor fuel or AZRBOB and carries documentation that the type and amount or range of amounts of oxygenates designated by the registered supplier will be or have been blended directly into the cargo tank truck before delivery of the resulting motor fuel to a motor-fuel dispensing site.

28. "Fleet" means at least 25 motor vehicles owned or leased by the same person.

29. "Fleet vehicle fueling facility" means a facility or location where a motor fuel is dispensed for final use by a fleet.

30. "Fuel ethanol" means denatured ethanol that meets the requirements in ASTM D4806, which is incorporated by reference in R3-7-702(4).

31. "Fuel property" means any characteristic listed in R3-7-751(A)(1) through (8), R3-7-751(B)(1) through (7), R3-7-751(D), or any other motor fuel standard referenced in this Article.

32. "Gasoline" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

33. "Isobutanol" means butanol isomer 2-methyl-1-propanol that meets the requirements in ASTM D7862, which is incorporated by reference in R3-7-702(9).

34. "Jobber" means a person that distributes a motor fuel from a bulk storage plant or terminal to the owner or operator of an underground or above-ground storage tank.

35. "Marketer" means a person engaged in selling or offering for sale motor fuels.

36. "Motor Fuel" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

37. "Motor fuel dispensing site" means a facility or location where a motor fuel is dispensed into commerce for final use.

38. "Motor vehicle" means a vehicle equipped with a spark-ignited or compression-ignition internal combustion engine except:

a. A vehicle that runs on or is guided by rails, or

b. A vehicle designed primarily for travel through air or water.

39. "MTBE" means methyl tertiary butyl ether.

40. "Neat" means pure or 100%.

41. "NOx" means oxides of nitrogen.

42. "Octane" or "octane rating" means the anti-knock characteristic of gasoline as determined by the resulting arithmetic test average of ASTM D2699 and ASTM D2700.

43. "Oxygenate" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

44. "Oxygenate blender" means a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises an oxygenate-blending facility, or that owns or controls the blendstock or gasoline used, or the gasoline produced, at an oxygenate-blending facility.

45. "Oxygen content" means the percentage by weight of oxygen contained in a gasoline oxygenate blend as determined under ASTM D4815.

46. "Pipeline" means a transporter that owns or operates an interstate common-carrier pipe or is subject to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission tariffs to transport motor fuels into Arizona.

47. "PM" means predictive model.

48. "Predictive Model Procedures" means CARB's "California Procedures for Evaluating Alternative Specifications for Phase 2 Reformulated Gasoline Using the California Predictive Model," as adopted April 20, 1995.

49. "Premium diesel" means a diesel fuel meeting the requirements in ASTM D975 and in Handbook 130, Uniform Engine Fuels and Automotive Lubricants Regulations, Section 2.2.1(a) through 2.2.1(f).

50. "Producer" means a refiner, CBG blender, or other person that produces a motor fuel, including Arizona CBG or AZRBOB.

51. "Production facility" means a facility at which a motor fuel, including Arizona CBG or AZRBOB, is produced. Upon request of a producer, the associate director may designate, as part of the producer's production facility, a physically separate bulk storage facility that:

a. Is owned or leased by the producer;

b. Is operated by or at the direction of the producer; and

c. Is used to store or distribute motor fuels, including Arizona CBG or AZRBOB, that are supplied only from the production facility.

52. "Product transfer document" has the same meaning as prescribed under A.R.S. § 3-3401.

53. "Refiner" means a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a refinery in the United States, including its trust territories.

54. "Refinery" means a facility that produces a liquid fuel, including Arizona CBG or AZRBOB, by distilling petroleum, or a transmix facility that produces a motor fuel offered for sale or sold into commerce as a finished motor fuel.

55. "Reproducibility" means the testing method margin of error as provided in the ASTM specification or other testing method required under this Article.

56. "Supply" means to provide or transfer motor fuel to a physically separate facility, vehicle, or transportation system.

57. "Terminal" means an owner or operator of a motor fuel storage tank facility that accepts custody, but not necessarily ownership, of a motor fuel from a registered supplier, oxygenate blender, pipeline, or other terminal and relinquishes custody of the motor fuel to a transporter or another terminal.

58. "Test result" means any document that contains a result of testing including all original test measures, all subsequent test measures that are not identical to the original test measure, and all worksheets on which calculations are performed.

59. "Transferee" means a person that receives title to or custody of a motor fuel.

60. "Transferor" means a person that relinquishes title to or custody of a motor fuel to a transporter, marketer, jobber, or motor fuel dispensing site.

61. "Transmix" means a mixture of petroleum distillate fuel and gasoline that does not meet the Arizona standards for either petroleum distillate fuels or gasoline.

62. "Transmix facility" means a facility at which transmix is processed into its components and then the components either are combined with a finished product or further processed to produce a finished motor fuel.

63. "Transporter" means a person that causes motor fuels, including Arizona CBG or AZRBOB, to be transported into or within Arizona.

64. "Vapor pressure" means dry vapor pressure equivalent of gasoline or blendstock as measured according to ASTM D5191.

65. "VOC" means volatile organic compound.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R3-7-701

Adopted by final rulemaking at 23 A.A.R. 2280, effective 10/2/2017. Amended by final rulemaking at 24 A.A.R. 2666, effective 11/10/2018. Amended by final rulemaking at 29 A.A.R. 441, effective 3/5/2023.