Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 220 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES › Title 220 CMR 101.00 - Massachusetts Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Code › Section 101.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Except as otherwise specified in
		  220 CMR 101.00, all words
		  are as defined in 49 CFR Part 192, MFS Standards, § 192.3.
Department
. Department of Public
		  Utilities, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Distribution Line
. A pipeline other
		  than a gathering or transmission line.
Gas
. Natural gas, flammable gas, or
		  gas that is toxic or corrosive.
Gathering Line
. A pipeline that
		  transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line or
		  main.
Listed Specification
. A specification
		  listed in 49 CFR Part 192, Appendix B, § I.
Main
. A distribution line that serves
		  as a common source of supply for more than one service line.
Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure
		  (MAOP)
. The maximum pressure at which a pipeline or segment of a
		  pipeline may be operated under
		  220 CMR 101.00.
Municipality
. A city, county, or any
		  other political subdivision of a State.
Operator
. A person who engages in the
		  transportation of gas.
Person
. Any individual, firm, joint
		  venture, partnership, corporation, association, state agency, municipality,
		  cooperative association, or joint stock association, and including any trustee,
		  receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
Pipe
. Any pipe or tubing used in the
		  transportation of gas, including pipe-type holders.
Pipeline
. All parts of those physical
		  facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including pipe, valves,
		  and other appurtenance attached to pipe, compressor units, metering stations,
		  regulator stations, delivery stations, holders and fabricated
		  assemblies.
Secretary
. The U.S. Secretary of
		  Transportation or any person to whom he or she has delegated authority in the
		  matter concerned.
Service Line
. A distribution line that
		  transports gas from a common source of supply to an individual customer, to two
		  adjacent or adjoining residential or small commercial customers, or to multiple
		  residential or small commercial customers served through a meter header or
		  manifold. A service line ends:
(a) at the outlet of the customer meter or at the connection to
		  a customer's piping, whichever is further downstream; or
(b) at the connection to customer piping if there is no meter.
SMYS
(Specified Minimum Yield
		  Strength).
(a) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with a listed
		  specification, the yield strength specified as a minimum in that specification;
		  or
(b) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown
		  or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with
		  49 CFR
		  192.107(b).
State
. Each of the several states, the
		  District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Transmission Line
. A pipeline, other
		  than a gathering line, that:
(a) Transports gas from a gathering line or storage facility to
		  a distribution center or storage facility;
(b) Operates at a hoop stress of 20% or more of SMYS; or
(c) Transports gas within a storage field.
Transportation of Gas
. The gathering,
		  transmission, or distribution of gas by pipeline or the storage of gas in or
		  affecting interstate or foreign commerce.