California Code of Regulations
Title 17 - Public Health
Division 3 - Air Resources
Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board
Subchapter 10 - Climate Change
Article 5 - California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms
Subarticle 3 - Applicability
Section 95812 - Inclusion Thresholds for Covered Entities

Universal Citation: 17 CA Code of Regs 95812

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) The inclusion threshold for each covered entity is based on the subset of greenhouse gas emissions that generate a compliance obligation for that entity as specified in section 95852. The entity must report and verify annual emissions pursuant to sections 95100 through 95157 of MRR.

(b) If an entity's reported or reported and verified annual emissions in any data year from 2009 through 2012 from the categories specified in section 95852(a) or (b) equal or exceed the thresholds identified below, that entity is classified as a covered entity as of January 1, 2013, and for all future years until any requirement set forth in section 95835(c) is met.

(1) Operators of Facilities. The applicability threshold for a facility is 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e per data year.

(2) First Deliverers of Electricity.

(A) Electricity Generating Facilities. The applicability threshold for an electricity generating facility is based on the annual emissions from which the electricity originated. The applicability threshold for an electricity generating facility is 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e per data year.

(B) Electricity importers. The applicability threshold for an electricity importer is based on the annual emissions from each of the electricity importer's sources of delivered electricity.

1. All emissions reported for imported electricity from specified sources of electricity that emit 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e per year are considered to be above the threshold.

2. All emissions reported for imported electricity from unspecified sources are considered to be above the threshold.

(3) Carbon Dioxide Suppliers. The applicability threshold for a carbon dioxide supplier is 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e per year. For purpose of comparison to this threshold, the supplier must include the sum of the CO2 that it captures from its production process units for purposes of supplying CO2 for commercial applications or that it captures from a CO2 stream to utilize for geologic sequestration, and the CO2 that it extracts or produces from a CO2 production well for purposes of supplying for commercial applications or that it extracts or produces to utilize for geologic sequestration.

(4) Petroleum and Natural Gas Facilities. The applicability threshold for a petroleum and natural gas facility is 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e per data year. This threshold is applied for each facility type specified in section 95852(h).

(d) If an entity's annual, assigned, or reported and verified emissions from any data year between 2011-2014 equal or exceed the thresholds identified below from the categories specified in sections 95851(a) or (b), then that entity is classified as a covered entity as of January 1, 2015, for the year in which the threshold is reached and for all future years until all requirements set forth in section 95835(c) are met.

(1) Fuel Suppliers. The threshold for a fuel supplier is 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2e annually of GHG emissions that would result from full combustion or oxidation of the quantities of the fuels, identified in section 95811(c) through (g), which are imported and/or delivered to California.

(2) Electricity importers. The threshold for an electricity importer of specified source of electricity is zero metric tons of CO2e per year and for unspecified sources is zero MWh per year as of January 1, 2015.

1. New section filed 12-13-2011; operative 1-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2011, No. 50).
2. Amendment of subsection (b) filed 8-29-2012; operative 9-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2012, No. 35).
3. Amendment of subsections (b), (d) and (d)(1) and new subsections (d)(3) and (f)-(g)(3)(C) filed 6-26-2014; operative 7-1-2014 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2014, No. 26).
4. Amendment of subsections (b), (c)(4) and (d)-(d)(1) and repealer of subsections (e)-(g)(3)(C) filed 9-18-2017; operative 10-1-2017 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2017, No. 38).
5. Amendment of subsection (d) and repealer of subsection (d)(3) filed 3-29-2019; operative 3-29-2019 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2019, No. 13).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 38510, 38560, 38562, 38570, 38571, 38580, 39600 and 39601, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 38530, 38560.5, 38564, 38565, 38570 and 39600, Health and Safety Code.

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