CSR 45-42-2. Definitions

§45-42-2. Definitions. 2.1. “Air pollutants” means solids, liquids, or gases which, if discharged into the air, may result in statutory air pollution. 2.2. “Air pollution” or “statutory air pollution” means and is limited to the discharge into the air by the act of man substances (liquid, solid, gaseous, organic or inorganic) in a locality, manner and amount as to be injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property, or which would interfere with the enjoyment of life or property. 2.3. “Anthropogenic” means a direct result of human activities or the result of natural processes that have been influenced by human activities. 2.4. “Area source” means, for purposes of this rule, a collection of similar sources of air pollutants within a geographic area. Area sources collectively represent individual sources that are small and numerous, and that typically have not been inventoried as a stationary or mobile source. 2.5. “Biogenic” means a naturally occurring biological source or process that is not significantly affected by human actions or activity. 2.6. “Capture” means the collection of greenhouse gas emissions from a stationary source. 2.7. “De minimis” means emissions from a stationary source that are equal to or less than ten thousand tons per year for carbon dioxide, four hundred seventy-six tons per year for methane, thirty-two and six tenths tons per year for nitrous oxide, eight hundred fifty-five thousandths tons per year for hydrofluorocarbons, one and nine hundredths tons per year for perfluorocarbons and forty-two hundredths tons per year for sulfur hexafluoride. 2.8. “Emission” means the release, escape or discharge of regulated air pollutants or greenhouse gases into the air. 2.9. “Greenhouse gas” means the gaseous compounds: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). 2.10. “Mobile source” means a variety of onroad and nonroad vehicles, engines, locomotives, marine vessels, airplanes and other equipment that generate air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions, and that move or can be moved from place to place. 2.11. “Regulated air pollutant” means, for purposes of this rule, any air pollutant regulated under rules promulgated by the Secretary pursuant to W. Va. Code §22-5-4. 2.12. “Reservoir” means a geological site where a greenhouse gas is securely stored. 2.13. “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection or such other person to whom the Secretary has delegated authority or duties pursuant to W. Va. Code §§22-1-6 or 22-1-8. 2.14. “Sequestration” means the physical process by which emissions of a greenhouse gas are directly captured for storage in a reservoir, or the biologic process by which a greenhouse gas is indirectly removed from the atmosphere for storage in a sink. 2.15. “Sink” means any process, activity or mechanism which removes a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Forests are considered sinks because they remove carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. 2.16. “Source” means, for purposes of this rule, any process or activity which releases a greenhouse gas into the air. 2.17. “Stationary source” means any building, structure, facility, installation, stationary process or process equipment which emits or may emit any regulated air pollutant or greenhouse gas. 2.18. “Ton” means a short ton, or 2000 pounds. 2.19. Other words and phrases used in this rule, unless otherwise indicated, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in W. Va. Code §22-5-1 et seq.