Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The term allowance means a limited authorization for the production or the consumption, as applicable, of a regulated substance in accordance with this Act. The term consumption means, with respect to any regulated substance, the amount of that regulated substance produced in the United States, plus the amount imported, minus the amount exported. The term consumption baseline means the baseline established for consumption of regulated substances under section 5(a)(2).
The term destroy means destruction by process or technology as defined by regulation by the Administrator. The term exchange value means, for each regulated substance and each substance referenced in paragraph (1)(B), (1)(C), (2)(B), or (2)(C) of section 5(a), the value by which the mass of such substance shall be multiplied for purposes of calculations under this Act. The term export means the transport of a regulated substance from any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to any place not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
The term import means to land on, bring into, or introduce into, or attempt to land on, bring into, or introduce into, any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, whether or not such landing, bringing, or introduction constitutes an importation within the meaning of the customs laws of the United States. The term person has the meaning given to such term in section 302 of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7602 ). The terms produce , produced , and production refer to the manufacture in the United States of a regulated substance from any raw material or feedstock chemical, but such terms do not include— the manufacture of a regulated substance that is used and entirely consumed (except for trace quantities) in the manufacture of other chemicals; or the reuse or recycling of a regulated substance.
The term production baseline means the baseline established for production of regulated substances under section 5(a)(1). The terms reclaim , reclaimed , and reclaiming mean the reprocessing of a recovered regulated substance to, at a minimum, the purity specified by and verified in accordance with the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute
(AHRI)Standard 700–2016 (or an appropriate successor standard adopted by the Administrator). The terms recover and recovered mean the removal of a regulated substance in any condition from equipment and the storage of such regulated substance in an external container without necessarily testing or processing such regulated substance in any way. The term regulated substance means a substance on the list published pursuant to section 3. The term United States means any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
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