[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 14]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR80.2]
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TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
PART 80--REGULATION OF FUELS AND FUEL ADDITIVES--Table of Contents
Subpart A--General Provisions
Sec. 80.2 Definitions.
As used in this part:
(a) Act means the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1857 et
seq.).
(b) Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
(c) Gasoline means any fuel sold in any State \1\ for use in motor
vehicles and motor vehicle engines, and commonly or commercially known
or sold as gasoline.
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\1\ State means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
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(d) Previously certified gasoline, or PCG, means gasoline or RBOB
that previously has been included in a batch for purposes of complying
with the standards in Subparts D, E, H, and J of this part, as
appropriate.
(e) Lead additive means any substance containing lead or lead
compounds.
(f) [Reserved]
(g) Unleaded gasoline means gasoline which is produced without the
use of any lead additive and which contains not more than 0.05 gram of
lead per gallon and not more than 0.005 gram of phosphorus per gallon.
(h) Refinery means any facility, including but not limited to, a
plant, tanker truck, or vessel where gasoline or diesel fuel is
produced, including any facility at which blendstocks are combined to
produce gasoline or diesel fuel, or at which blendstock is added to
gasoline or diesel fuel.
(i) Refiner means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls,
or supervises a refinery.
(j) Retail outlet means any establishment at which gasoline, diesel
fuel, methanol, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas is sold or
offered for sale for use in motor vehicles.
(k) Retailer means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls,
or supervises a retail outlet.
(l) Distributor means any person who transports or stores or causes
the transportation or storage of gasoline or diesel fuel at any point
between any gasoline or diesel fuel refinery or importer's facility and
any retail outlet or wholesale purchaser-consumer's facility.
(m) Lead additive manufacturer means any person who produces a lead
additive or sells a lead additive under his own name.
(n) Reseller means any person who purchases gasoline or diesel fuel
identified by the corporate, trade, or brand name of a refiner from such
refiner or a distributor and resells or transfers it to retailers or
wholesale purchaser-consumers displaying the refiner's brand, and whose
assets or facilities are not substantially owned, leased, or controlled
by such refiner.
(o) Wholesale purchaser-consumer means any organization that is an
ultimate consumer of gasoline, diesel fuel, methanol, natural gas or
liquefied petroleum gas and which purchases or obtains gasoline, diesel
fuel, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas from a supplier for use in
motor vehicles and, in the case of gasoline, diesel fuel, methanol or
liquefied petroleum gas, receives delivery of that product into a
storage tank of at least 550-gallon capacity substantially under the
control of that organization.
(p)-(q) [Reserved]
(r) Importer means a person who imports gasoline, gasoline blending
stocks or components, or diesel fuel from a foreign country into the
United States (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands).
(s) Gasoline blending stock, blendstock, or component means any
liquid compound which is blended with other liquid compounds to produce
gasoline.
(t) Carrier means any distributor who transports or stores or causes
the
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transportation or storage of gasoline or diesel fuel without taking
title to or otherwise having any ownership of the gasoline or diesel
fuel, and without altering either the quality or quantity of the
gasoline or diesel fuel.
(u) Ethanol blending plant means any refinery at which gasoline is
produced solely through the addition of ethanol to gasoline, and at
which the quality or quantity of gasoline is not altered in any other
manner.
(v) Ethanol blender means any person who owns, leases, operates,
controls, or supervises an ethanol blending plant.
(w) Cetane index or ``Calculated cetane index'' is a number
representing the ignition properties of diesel fuel oils from API
gravity and mid-boiling point as determined by ASTM standard method D
976-80, entitled ``Standard Methods for Calculated Cetane Index of
Distillate Fuels''. ASTM test method D 976-80 is incorporated by
reference. This incorporation by reference was approved by the Director
of the Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR
part 51. A copy may be obtained from the American Society for Testing
and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy may be
inspected at the Air Docket Section (A-130), Room M-1500, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Docket No. A-86-03, 401 M Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20460 or at the Office of the Federal Register, 800 North
Capitol Street, NW., suite 700, Washington, DC.
(x) Diesel fuel means any fuel sold in any state or Territory of the
United States and suitable for use in diesel motor vehicles, diesel
motor vehicle engines or diesel nonroad engines, and which is commonly
or commercially known or sold as diesel fuel.
(y) Motor vehicle diesel fuel means any diesel fuel, or any
distillate product, that is used, intended for use, or made available
for use,
(z) Aromatic content is the aromatic hydrocarbon content in volume
percent as determined by ASTM standard test method D 1319-88, entitled
``Standard Test Method for Hydrocarbon Types in Liquid Petroleum
Products by Fluorescent Indicator Adsorption''. ASTM test method D 1319-
88 is incorporated by reference. This incorporation by reference was
approved by the Director of the Federal Register in accordance with 5
U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. A copy may be obtained from the
American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy may be inspected at the Air Docket
Section (A-130), room M-1500, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Docket No. A-86-03, 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460 or at the
Office of the Federal Register, 800 North Capitol Street, NW., suite
700, Washington, DC.
(aa) [Reserved]
(bb) Sulfur percentage is the percentage of sulfur in diesel fuel by
weight, as determined using the applicable sampling and testing
methodologies set forth in Sec. 80.580.
(cc) Designated Volatility Nonattainment Area means any area
designated as being in nonattainment with the National Ambient Air
Quality Standard for ozone pursuant to rulemaking under section
107(d)(4)(A)(ii) of the Clean Air Act.
(dd) Designated Volatility Attainment Area means an area not
designated as being in nonattainment with the National Ambient Air
Quality Standard for ozone pursuant to rulemaking under section
107(d)(4)(A)(ii) of the Clean Air Act.
(ee) Reformulated gasoline means any gasoline whose formulation has
been certified under Sec. 80.40, which meets each of the standards and
requirements prescribed under Sec. 80.41, and which contains less than
the maximum concentration of the marker specified in Sec. 80.82 that is
allowed for reformulated gasoline under Sec. 80.82.
(ff) Conventional gasoline means any gasoline which has not been
certified under Sec. 80.40.
(gg) Batch of gasoline means a quantity of gasoline that is
homogeneous with regard to those properties that are specified for
conventional or reformulated gasoline.
(hh) Covered area means each of the geographic areas specified in
Sec. 80.70 in which only reformulated gasoline may be sold or dispensed
to ultimate consumers.
(ii) Reformulated gasoline credit means the unit of measure for the
paper transfer of oxygen or benzene content resulting from reformulated
gasoline
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which contains more than 2.1 weight percent of oxygen or less than 0.95
volume percent benzene.
(jj) Oxygenate means any substance which, when added to gasoline,
increases the oxygen content of that gasoline. Lawful use of any of the
substances or any combination of these substances requires that they be
``substantially similar'' under section 211(f)(1) of the Clean Air Act,
or be permitted under a waiver granted by the Administrator under the
authority of section 211(f)(4) of the Clean Air Act.
(kk) Reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending, or
RBOB means a petroleum product which, when blended with a specified type
and percentage of oxygenate, meets the definition of reformulated
gasoline, and to which the specified type and percentage of oxygenate is
added other than by the refiner or importer of the RBOB at the refinery
or import facility where the RBOB is produced or imported.
(ll) Oxygenate blending facility means any facility (including a
truck) at which oxygenate is added to gasoline or blendstock, and at
which the quality or quantity of gasoline is not altered in any other
manner except for the addition of deposit control additives.
(mm) Oxygenate blender means any person who owns, leases, operates,
controls, or supervises an oxygenate blending facility, or who owns or
controls the blendstock or gasoline used or the gasoline produced at an
oxygenate blending facility.
(nn) Batch of motor vehicle diesel fuel means a quantity of diesel
fuel which is homogeneous with regard to those properties that are
specified for motor vehicle diesel fuel under subpart I of this part.
(oo) Liquefied petroleum gas means a liquid hydrocarbon fuel that is
stored under pressure and is composed primarily of species that are
gases at atmospheric conditions (temperature = 25 deg.C and pressure =
1 atm), excluding natural gas.
(pp) Control area means a geographic area in which only oxygenated
gasoline under the oxygenated gasoline program may be sold or dispensed,
with boundaries determined by section 211(m) of the Act.
(qq) Control period means the period during which oxygenated
gasoline must be sold or dispensed in any control area, pursuant to
section 211(m)(2) of the Act.
(rr) Oxygenated gasoline means gasoline which contains a measurable
amount of oxygenate.
(ss) Tank truck means a truck and/or trailer used to transport or
cause the transportation of gasoline or diesel fuel, that meets the
definition of motor vehicle in section 216(2) of the Act.
(tt) Natural gas means a fuel whose primary constituent is methane.
(uu) Methanol means any fuel sold for use in motor vehicles and
commonly known or commercially sold as methanol or MXX, where XX is the
percent methanol (CH3OH) by volume.
(vv) Opt-in area. An area which becomes a covered area under
Sec. 80.70 pursuant to section 211(k)(6) of the Clean Air Act.
(ww) [Reserved]
(xx) Motor vehicle diesel fuel additive means any substance not
composed solely of carbon and/or hydrogen, or of diesel blendstocks,
that is added, intended for adding, used, or offered for use in motor
vehicle diesel fuel subsequent to the production of diesel fuel by
processing crude oil from refinery processing units, or in diesel motor
vehicle fuel systems.
(Sec. 211, (Sec. 223, Pub. L. 95-95, 91 Stat. 764, 42 U.S.C. 7545(g))
and sec. 301(a) 42 U.S.C. 7602(a), formerly 42 U.S.C. 1857g(a)) of the
Clean Air Act, as amended)
[38 FR 1255, Jan. 10, 1973]
Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting Sec. 80.2,
see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids
section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.