California Code of Regulations › Title 19 - Public Safety › Division 1 - State Fire Marshal › Chapter 14 - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety › Article 7 - Requirements for New or Replacement Pipeline near Environmentally and Ecologically Sensitive Areas in the Coastal Zone; Plan to Retrofit Existing Pipelines; Notification to State Fire Marshal of New Construction or Retrofit of Pipeline; Consultation with Office of Spill Prevention and Response › Section 2100 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Definitions applicable to this Article:
(1)
				  Automatic Shutoff System means an automated system not dependent upon human
				  interaction capable of shutting down a pipeline system.
(2) Best Available Technology means
				  technology that provides the greatest degree of protection by limiting the
				  quantity of release in the event of a spill, taking into consideration whether
				  the processes are currently in use and could be purchased anywhere in the
				  world.
(3) Check valve means a
				  valve that permits fluid to flow freely in one direction and contains a
				  mechanism to automatically prevent flow in the other direction.
(4) Coastal zone means the same as defined in
				  the California Coastal Act, Public Resource Code, Division 20, Sections
				  30000 et seq. The coastal zone
				  includes the area of jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
				  Development Commission, established pursuant to Title 7.2, commencing with
				  Section
				  66600 of
				  the Government Code.
(5)
				  Computational Pipeline Monitoring means a software-based monitoring tool that
				  alerts the pipeline operator of a possible pipeline operating anomaly that may
				  be indicative of a commodity release.
(6) Emergency flow restriction device means a
				  check valve or remote control valve.
(7) Environmentally and ecologically
				  sensitive area means environmentally and ecologically sensitive areas
				  identified in the State oil spill contingency plan, as developed by the
				  Administrator of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response pursuant to
				  subdivision (d) of Section
				  8574.7 of
				  the California Government Code.
(8)
				  Leak Detection System means an end-to-end application of one technique that may
				  be internally based or externally based and continuous or
				  non-continuous.
(9) Near means
				  within half a mile.
(10) New
				  Construction means the act of building a new pipeline or replacement
				  pipeline.
(11) New Pipeline means a
				  pipeline that is installed in a location where a pipeline did not
				  exist.
(12) Oil means hazardous
				  liquid as defined in Section
				  195.2 of Title 49 of the Code of
				  Federal Regulations, which includes petroleum, petroleum products, anhydrous
				  ammonia, or ethanol. Petroleum means crude oil, condensate, natural gasoline,
				  natural gas liquids, and liquefied petroleum. Petroleum product means
				  flammable, toxic, or corrosive products obtained from distilling and processing
				  of crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, blend stocks and other
				  miscellaneous hydrocarbon compounds.
(13) Operator means a person who owns or
				  operates pipeline facilities.
(14)
				  Remote control valve means any valve that is operated from a location remote
				  from where the valve is installed. It is usually operated by the supervisory
				  control and data acquisition system with a linkage between the pipeline control
				  center and the valve by fiber optic, microwave, telephone line, or
				  satellite.
(15) Replacement
				  Pipeline means the construction of a new pipeline to take the place of a
				  previously existing pipeline.
(16)
				  Retrofit means adding the best available technology to an existing
				  pipeline.
(17) Supervisory Control
				  and Data Acquisition system means a computer-based system or systems used by a
				  controller in a control room that collects and displays information about a
				  pipeline facility and may have the ability to send commands back to the
				  pipeline facility.
(18) State
				  Waters means the same as defined in Section
				  8670.3 of
				  the California Government Code.