Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 515 - RULES OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 515-7 - GAS UTILITIES › Subject 515-7-5 - UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND › Rule 515-7-5-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
As used in this Utility Rule 515-7-5, the following terms and
				  phrases shall have the following definitions:
(a) "Act" means the Natural Gas Competition
				and Deregulation Act as provided for in O.C.G.A. §
									46-4-150
et
				seq.
(b) "Ancillary
				service" means a service that is ancillary to the receipt or delivery of
				natural gas, including without limitation, storage, balancing, peaking and
				customer services.
(c) "Commission"
				means the Georgia Public Service Commission.
(d) "Commodity sales service" means the sale
				of natural gas exclusive of any distribution or ancillary service.
(e) "Customer service" means a function
				related to serving a retail customer including, without limitation, billing,
				meter reading, turnon service, and turn-off service.
(f) "Distribution service" means the delivery
				of natural gas by and through the intrastate instrumentalities and facilities
				of a gas company or of a marketer certificated pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
									46-4-153, regardless of the party
				having title to the natural gas.
(g) "Delivery Group" means a set of
				individual delivery points on one or more interstate pipeline suppliers to a
				gas company that may be aggregated and utilized for the distribution of gas to
				a particular set of retail customers.
(h) "Electing distribution company" means a
				gas company that elects to become subject to the provisions of the Act and
				satisfies the requirements of O.C.G.A. §
									46-4-154.
(i) "Emergency" means imminent threats to
				public health, safety or welfare.
(j) "Expand" means to increase facilities in
				size, quantity, or scope. This term does not include any activities relating to
				the maintenance, repair, and/or replacement of facilities already in
				existence.
(k) "Extend" means to
				enlarge the area or scope of facilities. This term does not include any
				activities relating to the maintenance, repair, and/or replacement of
				facilities already in existence.
(l) "Facilities" mean all property, means,
				and instrumentalities owned, operated, leased, licensed, used, furnished, or
				supplied for, by, or in connection with the delivery of natural gas service to
				the public.
(m) "Firm" means a type
				of distribution service which ordinarily is not subject to interruption or
				curtailment.
(n) "Gas" means
				natural gas.
(o) "Gas company"
				means any person to whom a certificate of public convenience and necessity has
				been issued by the Commission to construct or operate any pipeline or
				distribution system, or any extension thereof, for the sale of natural
				gas.
(p) "Group 1 Consumers" means
				low-income residential consumers served by a regulated provider of natural
				gas.
(q) "Group 2 Consumers" means
				firm natural gas consumers served by a regulated provider of natural gas who
				had been unable to obtain or maintain natural gas commodity service or whose
				utility payment history was cited by the regulated provider of natural gas as
				reason for transfer from Group 1 to Group 2.
(r) "Interruptible" means a type of
				distribution service which is subject to interruption or curtailment.
(s) "Low-income residential customer" means
				any person who meets the definition of a person who is qualified for the Low
				Income Home Energy Assistance Program, as promulgated by the Department of
				Human Resourses, pursuant to Code Section
				46-1-5.
(t) "Marketer" means any person certificated
				by the Commission to provide commodity sales service or distribution service
				pursuant to O.C.G.A. §
									46-4-153 or ancillary services
				incident thereto.
(u) "Person"
				means any corporation, whether public or private; company; individual; firm;
				partnership; or association.
(v)
				"Regulated gas service" means gas service provided by a regulated provider of
				natural gas.
(w) "Regulated
				provider of natural gas" means the entity selected by the Commission to provide
				to consumers natural gas commodity service and ancillary services thereto in
				accordance with Code Section
				46-4-166.
(x) "Retail customer" or "retail purchaser"
				means a person who purchases commodity sales service or distribution service
				and such purchase is not for the purpose of resale.
(y) "Service" means the act or means of
				supplying natural gas to the public.
O.C.G.A. Sec.
				  46-5-152.