New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle BB - State Energy Office
Chapter IV - Fuel Allocation And Energy Emergency Procedures
Subchapter D - Standby State Fuel Set-aside Program
Part 7900 - General Provisions
Section 7900.3 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
As used in this subchapter:
(a) Aviation fuels means jet fuel (kerosene-type), jet fuel (naphtha-type), and aviation gasoline.
(b) End-user means any person who is an ultimate consumer within New York State of a liquid fossil fuel.
(c) Liquid fossil fuel means aviation fuels, liquefied petroleum gases, middle distillates, motor gasoline, and residual fuel oils.
(d) Liquefied petroleum gases means propane, butane, and propane/butane mixes, but not ethane.
(e) Middle distillates means any derivatives of petroleum including kerosene, No. 1 and No. 2 home heating oils, range oil, stove oil, and diesel fuel, which have a fifty percent boiling point in the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) D86 standard distillation test falling between 371° and 700° F. Products specifically excluded from this definition are aviation fuels, residual fuel oils, and all specialty items such as solvents, lubricants, waxes and process oil.
(f) Motor gasoline means a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons, suitable for operation of an internal combustion engine, whose major components are hydrocarbons with boiling points ranging from 140° to 390° F and whose source is distillation of petroleum and cracking, polymerization, and other chemical reactions by which the naturally occurring petroleum hydrocarbons are converted to those that have superior fuel properties; and includes leaded and unleaded grades of motor gasoline, gasohol, and any other motor gasoline blends including non-petroleum derivatives.
(g) Person means any individual, trustee, agency, partnership, association, corporation, company, municipality, political subdivision or other legal entity.
(h) Prime supplier means any person who makes the first sale of any liquid fossil fuel into the New York State distribution system for consumption within the State.
(i) Residual fuel oils means the fuel oils commonly know as:
(j) State set-aside means the amount of liquid fossil fuel which is made available from the total supply of a prime supplier for utilization pursuant to this subchapter to resolve hardships and emergencies due to energy shortages.
(k) Wholesale purchaser-reseller means any person who purchases, receives through transfer, or otherwise obtains (as by consignment) one or more liquid fossil fuels and resells or otherwise transfers it to other purchasers within New York State without substantially changing its form.
