California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 3 - Air Resources Board
Chapter 5 - Standards for Motor Vehicle Fuels
Article 1 - Standards for Gasoline
Subarticle 2 - Standards for Gasoline Sold Beginning March 1, 1996
Section 2266 - Certified Gasoline Formulations Resulting in Equivalent Emission Reductions Based on Motor Vehicle Emissions Testing

(a) Certification of test-certified alternative gasoline formulations. Following application by a producer or importer, the executive officer may certify, and identify alternative specifications for, a test-certified alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to the Air Resources Board's "California Procedures for Evaluating Alternative Specifications for Gasoline Using Vehicle Emissions Testing," as last amended April 25, 2001, which is incorporated herein by reference. Notwithstanding section 2265.5(a), a producer or an importer that produces gasoline that has elected to be subject to a test-certified alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to section 2266 shall offset its emissions associated with permeation by complying with sections 2265.5(b)-(i).

(b) Prohibited activities regarding test-certified alternative gasoline formulations.

(c) Notification regarding sales and supplies of a test-certified alternative gasoline formulation. A producer or importer intending to sell or supply a final blend of California gasoline from its production facility or import facility as a test-certified alternative gasoline formulation shall notify the Executive Officer in accordance with this section (c). The notification shall identify the final blend and the identification name of the test-certified alternative gasoline formulation. The notification shall be received by the Executive Officer before the start of physical transfer of the gasoline from the production or import facility, and in no case less than 12 hours before the producer or importer either completes physical transfer or commingles the final blend. A producer or importer intending to have a series of its final blends be a specific test-certified alternative gasoline formulation may enter into a protocol with the Executive Officer for reporting such blends as long as the Executive Officer reasonably determines the reporting under the protocol would provide at least as much notice to the Executive Officer as notification pursuant to the express terms of this section (c).