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1. These Standards may be cited as the Oil Barge Standards.

Interpretation ^

2. (1) In these Standards,

"Act" means the Canada Shipping Act;

"approved classification society" means the American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, Det norske Veritas or Lloyd's Register of Shipping;

"Board" means the Board of Steamship Inspection;

"bulk oil" means oil that is loaded directly into the barge or its permanently mounted independent tanks, and is confined only by the permanent structures thereof, without intermediate packaging;

"cargo area" means that part of an oil barge that includes

1. the cargo tanks into which bulk oil is intentionally introduced, and holds containing such tanks,
   
2. all intervening space within, between, below or outboard of the tanks and holds described in paragraph (a), and
   
3. the deck area, over the length and full breadth of the oil barge, above the tanks, holds and spaces described in paragraphs (a) and (b);
   

"cargo control station" means a space from which a person is able to control the loading, discharging or transferring of liquid cargo;

"Class A oil barge" means an oil barge that carries bulk oil having

1. a flashpoint not exceeding 60ºC, and
   
2. a Reid vapour pressure that is below atmospheric pressure;

"Class B oil barge" means an oil barge that carries bulk oil having a flashpoint exceeding 60ºC;

"deadweight" means the difference in tonnes between the displacement of an oil barge when floating at its load waterline, and the lightweight of the oil barge;

"existing oil barge" means an oil barge that is not a new oil barge;

"flashpoint" means the temperature in degrees Celsius at which a liquid will give off enough flammable vapour to be ignited, as determined by the Pensky Marten closed cup test;

"independent cargo tank" means a cargo containment envelope that is not contiguous with, or part of, the hull structure;

"inspector" means a person appointed as a steamship inspector pursuant to section 301 of the Act;

"integrated tug and oil barge combination" means a tug and oil barge combination in which the tug normally pushes the oil barge and is physically locked to it by a locking arrangement other than or additional to chain or rope.

"length (L)", in respect of an oil barge, means 96 per cent of the total length on a waterline at 85 percent of the least moulded depth, measured from the top of the keel;

"lightweight" means the displacement of an oil barge in tonnes, without cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, fresh water and feed water in tanks;

"machinery space" means any enclosed space containing boilers, steam or internal combustion engines, generators, oil pumps, major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating machinery and any similar spaces, and includes any trunk to a machinery space;

"new oil barge" means an oil barge the construction contract for which was placed, which was transferred into Canadian registry from a registry other than in Canada, or which is subjected to major conversion after the coming into force of these Standards;

"oil" means oil of any kind or in any form and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, and oil refuse;

"oil barge" means any description of non­self propelled vessel, other than an oil or gas offshore drilling unit or production unit, that is constructed or converted to carry bulk oil as cargo;

"pressure-vacuum relief valve" means a device or assembly that automatically regulates the pressure or vacuum existing within an enclosed space;

"Reid vapour pressure" means the vapour pressure as determined by the American Society for Testing of Materials, Test number D 323­89, Standard Method of Test for Vapour Pressure of Petroleum Products (Reid Method);

"Regional Manager" means the Ship Safety manager of a Canadian Coast Guard Region;

"service space" includes any galley, pantry containing cooking appliances, laundry, locker and store-room, workshop other than a workshop forming part of a machinery space, and any other similar space and any trunk to such space;

"spark arrester" means a device or assembly that retains or quenches sparks in the exhaust piping of an internal combustion engine.

(2) Unless specifically defined in subsection 2(1), all words and expressions used in these Standards have the same meaning as in the Canada Shipping Act.

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