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Volume 53, No. 24

B.C. Reg. 346/2010

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 14, 2010

B.C. Reg. 346/2010 , deposited December 6, 2010, pursuant to the ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT [Sections 72, 73, 138 and 139]. Order in Council 811/2010, approved and ordered December 3, 2010.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) the Cleaner Gasoline Regulation, B.C. Reg. 498/95, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule, and

(

b) effective January 1, 2013,

section 4 (2) is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) A primary distributor must not possess for sale gasoline described in subsection (1) in the Lower Fraser Valley during the period starting on July 16 and ending on August 14 of each year unless the vapour pressure of the gasoline is less than or equal to the sum of the maximum vapour pressure referred to in

section 7.13 of the CAN/CGSB 3.511-2005 "Oxygenated Unleaded Automotive Gasoline Containing Ethanol" plus 7 kiloPascals.

— M. COELL, Minister of Environment ; S. BOND, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 1 is amended by adding the following

definitions:

"antiknock index" means the number determined by averaging the motor octane number and the research octane number for a type of gasoline;

"grade" means a grade of gasoline based on a minimum antiknock index;

"motor octane number" means a numerical indication of the resistance to knock of the fuel in a spark-ignition engine when compared with reference fuels tested by the method set out in a standard of the American Society for Testing Materials titled ASTM D2700 Standard Test Method for Motor Octane Number of Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel;

"research octane number" means a numerical indication of the resistance to knock of the fuel in a spark-ignition engine when compared with reference fuels tested by the method set out in the standard of the American Society for Testing Materials titled ASTM D2699 Standard Test Method for Research Octane Number of Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel; .

Section 2 (1) is repealed.

3 The following is added:

Determination of grade of gasoline

3.1 For the purposes of this regulation, a grade of gasoline referred to in column 1 of the following table is gasoline that has a minimum antiknock index referred to in column 2 opposite that grade and a maximum antiknock index that is less than the minimum antiknock index of the next higher grade of gasoline.

Item

Column 1

Grade of gasoline

Column 2

Minimum antiknock index

Grade 1

87.0

Grade 2

89.0

Grade 3

91.0

Grade 4

93.0

Section 4 is repealed and the following substituted:

Vapour pressure

(1) Section 3 does not apply to gasoline that

(

a) contains an amount of oxygen that is greater than 3.4% of the gasoline by weight,

(

b) contains oxygen that is supplied by one of the following:

(

i) alcohols produced wholly from biomass;

(ii) ethers where the alcohol component of the ether is produced wholly from biomass;

(iii) a combination of the alcohols and ethers referred to in subparagraphs (

i) and (ii), and

(

c) meets the requirements of CAN/CGSB–3.511–2005 Oxygenated Unleaded Automotive Gasoline Containing Ethanol.

(2) A primary distributor must not possess for sale gasoline described in subsection (1) with the grade set out in column 1 of the following table, in the area set out in column 2 opposite that grade for the period set out opposite in column 3, unless the vapour pressure of the gasoline is less than or equal to the sum of the maximum vapour pressure referred to in

section 7.13 of the CAN/CGSB 3.511–2005 Oxygenated Unleaded Automotive Gasoline Containing Ethanol plus 7 kiloPascals.

Item

Column 1

Grade

Column 2

Area

Column 3

Period of time

Grade 1 gasoline

Lower Fraser Valley

during the period starting on April 16 and ending on September 15 in each year

Grade 2, 3 or 4 gasoline

Lower Fraser Valley

during any portion of the calendar year

Grade 1, 2, 3 or 4 gasoline

the Province outside of the Lower Fraser Valley

during any portion of the calendar year

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