B.C. Reg. 48/2024, deposited March 6, 2024, under the ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT [sections 72, 73, 138 and 139]. Order in Council 97/2024, approved and ordered March 6, 2024.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Cleaner Gasoline Regulation, B.C. Reg. 498/95, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— G. HEYMAN, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy; B. RALSTON, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 Section 1 of the Cleaner Gasoline Regulation, B.C. Reg. 498/95, is amended

(a) by repealing paragraph (a) of the definition of "additive compliance record" and substituting the following:

(a) the certification and records of volumes required by section 6.23.1 of the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.5‑2021 Automotive gasoline in order to show that deposit control additive has been added to the gasoline to meet the requirements of section 6.23 of that Standard, or , and

(b) in the definition of "deposit control additive" by striking out "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB–3.5–2004 Unleaded Automotive Gasoline" and substituting "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.5‑2021 Automotive gasoline".

2 Section 4 is amended

(a) by repealing subsection (1) (c) and substituting the following:

(c) meets the requirements of Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.511‑2021 Oxygenated automotive gasoline containing ethanol (E1‑E10 and E11‑E15). , and

(b) in subsection (2) by striking out "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" and substituting "the sum of 7 kiloPascals plus the maximum vapour pressure referred to in Table 3A of the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.511‑2021 Oxygenated automotive gasoline containing ethanol (E1‑E10 and E11‑E15)".

3 Section 9 (1) is amended

(a) in paragraph (a) by striking out "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB–3.5–2004 Unleaded Automotive Gasoline" and substituting "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.5‑2021 Automotive gasoline",

(b) in paragraph (b) by striking out "10%" and substituting "15%" and by striking out "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB–3.511–2005 Oxygenated Unleaded Automotive Gasoline Containing Ethanol" and substituting "Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.511‑2021 Oxygenated automotive gasoline containing ethanol (E1‑E10 and E11‑E15)", and

(c) by repealing paragraph (c) and substituting the following:

(c) if the gasoline contains an amount of ethanol that is 20 to 25% or 50 to 85% by volume of the amount of gasoline, the analytical methods referred to in the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.512‑2023 Automotive ethanol fuel (E50‑E85 and E20‑E25) must be used in addition to the analytical methods set out in paragraph (a).

4 Section 1 of Schedule 1 is repealed and the following substituted:

1  For the purposes of the definition of "gasoline standard" and for the purposes of section 3 (1), the gasoline standards are as follows:

(a) the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.5‑2021 Automotive gasoline;

(b) the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.511‑2021 Oxygenated automotive gasoline containing ethanol (E1‑E10 and E11‑E15);

(c) the Canadian General Standards Board Standard CAN/CGSB‑3.512‑2023 Automotive ethanol fuel (E50‑E85 and E20‑E25).

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