Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 77 - TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE; MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL › Section 6-77-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the
					 State or any person to whom it has delegated authority in the matter
					 concerned.
"Distribution line" means a pipeline other than a gathering
					 or transmission line.
"Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is
					 toxic or corrosive.
"Gathering line" means a pipeline that transports gas from
					 a current production facility to a transmission line or main.
"High pressure distribution system" means a distribution
					 system in which the gas pressure in the main is higher than the pressure
					 provided to the customer.
"Incident" means any of the following events:
(1) An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline
					 or of liquefied natural gas or gas from an LNG facility and
(A) A death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient
					 hospitalization; or
(B) Estimated property damage, including cost of gas lost,
					 of the operator or others, or both, of $50,000 or more.
(2) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an
					 LNG facility;
(3) An event that is significant, in the judgement of the
					 operator, even though it did not meet the criteria of paragraphs (1) or (2).
"Listed specification" means a specification listed in
					 section I of Appendix B of this chapter.
"LNG facility" means a liquefied natural gas facility as
					 defined in section 193.2007 of Part 193 of the Code of Federal Regulations
					 (C.F.R.).
"Low-pressure distribution system" means a distribution
					 system in which the gas pressure in the main is substantially the same as the
					 pressure provided to the customer.
"Main" means a distribution line that serves as a common
					 source of supply for more than one service line.
"Master meter system" means a pipeline system for
					 distributing gas within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a mobile
					 home park, housing project, or apartment complex, where the operator purchases
					 metered gas from an outside source for resale through a gas distribution
					 pipeline system. The gas distribution pipeline system supplies the ultimate
					 consumer who either purchases the gas directly through a meter or by other
					 means, such as by rents.
"Maximum actual operating pressure" means the maximum
					 pressure that occurs during normal operations over a period of one year.
"Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP)" means the
					 maximum pressure at which a pipeline may be operated under this chapter.
"Municipality" means a city, county, or any other political
					 subdivision of a state.
"Offshore" means beyond the line of ordinary low water
					 along that portion of the coast of the United States that is in direct contact
					 with the open seas and beyond the line marking the seaward limit of inland
					 waters.
"Operator" means a person who engages in the transportation
					 of gas.
"Person" means any individual, firm, joint venture,
					 partnership, corporation, association, state, municipality, cooperative
					 association, or joint stock association, and including any trustee, receiver,
					 assignee, or personal representative thereof.
"Pipe" means any pipe or tubing used in the transportation
					 of gas, including pipe-type holders.
"Pipeline" or "pipeline system" means all parts of those
					 physical facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including, but
					 not limited to, pipe, valves, and other appurtenances attached to pipes,
					 compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations,
					 holders, and fabricated assemblies.
"Pipeline facility" means new and existing pipelines,
					 rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used in the
					 transportation of gas or in the treatment of gas during the course of
					 transportation.
"Service line" means a distribution line that transports
					 gas from a common source of supply to
(1) A customer meter or the connection to a customer's
					 piping, whichever is farther downstream; or
(2) The connection to a customer's piping if there is no
					 customer meter. A customer meter is the meter that measures the transfer of gas
					 from an operator to a consumer.
"SMYS" means specified minimum yield strength is:
(1) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an
					 unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance
					 with section
					 6-77-30(b);
(2) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an
					 unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance
					 with section
					 6-77-30(b).
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Transmission line" means a pipeline, other than a
					 gathering line, that:
(1) Transports gas from a gathering line or storage
					 facility to a distribution center or storage facility;
(2) Operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more
					 SMYS; or
(3) Transports gas within a storage field.
"Transportation of gas" means the gathering, transmission,
					 or distribution of gas by pipeline or the storage of gas, in or affecting
					 interstate or foreign commerce.