Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 807 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 5 - Utilities › Section 807 KAR 5:022 - Gas service

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				278.485
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				278.040(3) authorizes the
				Public Service Commission to adopt reasonable administrative regulations to
				implement the provisions of KRS Chapter 278 and to investigate methods and
				practices of utilities subject to commission jurisdiction.
				KRS
				278.280(2) requires the
				commission to prescribe rules for the performance of any service or the
				furnishing of any commodity by any utility. This administrative regulation
				establishes general rules which apply to gas utilities.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "British thermal unit (BTU)" means
			 quantity of heat that is required to be added to one (1) pound of pure water to
			 raise its temperature from fifty-eight and one-half (58.5) degrees Fahrenheit
			 to fifty-nine and one-half (59.5) degrees Fahrenheit at the absolute pressure
			 of a column of pure mercury thirty (30) inches high at thirty-two (32) degrees
			 Fahrenheit under standard gravity (32.174 ft. per sec-sec).
(2) "Commission" means the Public Service
			 Commission.
(3) "Cubic foot of gas"
			 means the following:
(a) If gas is supplied
			 and metered to customers at standard distribution pressure, a cubic foot of gas
			 means that volume of gas which, at the temperature and pressure existing in the
			 meter, occupies one (1) cubic foot.
(b) If gas is supplied to customers through
			 turbine, orifice, or positive displacement meters at other than standard
			 distribution pressure, a cubic foot of gas means that volume of gas which, at
			 sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and at absolute pressure of 14.73 pounds per
			 square inch, (thirty (30) inches of mercury), occupies one (1) cubic foot;
			 except if different bases that are considered by the commission to be fair and
			 reasonable are provided for in gas sales contracts or in rules or practices of
			 a utility, these different bases shall be effective.
(c) The standard cubic foot of gas for
			 testing the gas itself for heating value means the volume of gas that occupies
			 one (1) cubic foot if:
1. Saturated with water
			 vapor and at temperature of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit; and
2. Under pressure equivalent to that of
			 thirty (30) inches of mercury (mercury at thirty-two (32) degrees Fahrenheit
			 and under standard gravity) occupies one (1) cubic foot.
(4) "Meter" means any device used
			 to measure the quantity of gas delivered by utility to a customer.
(5) "Service line" means a distribution line
			 that:
(a) Transports gas from a common source
			 of supply to:
1. An individual
			 customer;
2. Two (2) adjacent or
			 adjoining residential or small commercial customers; or
3. Multiple residential or small commercial
			 customers served through a meter header or manifold; and
(b) Ends at the:
1. Outlet of the customer meter or connection
			 to a customer's piping, whichever is farther downstream; or
2. Connection to a customer's piping if there
			 is no customer meter.
(6) "State" means Commonwealth of
			 Kentucky.
(7) "Transmission line"
			 means a pipeline, other than a gathering line that:
(a) Transports gas from a gathering line or
			 storage facility to a distribution center, storage facility or large volume
			 customer that is not down-stream from a distribution center;
(b) Operates at a hoop stress of twenty (20)
			 percent or more of SMYS; or
(c)
			 Transports gas within a storage field.