Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-16 - Gas Pipeline Safety › Section 4901:1-16-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Chief" means  of the gas pipeline safety
			 program manager on staff at
								 the commission or his/her
			 designee.
(B) "Commission" means
			 the public utilities commission of Ohio.
(C) "Contiguous property" includes, but is
			 not limited to, a manufactured home park as defined in section
			 4781.01 of the Revised Code; a
			 public or publicly subsidized housing project; an apartment complex; a
			 condominium complex; a college or university; an office complex; a shopping
			 center; a hotel; an industrial park; and a race track.
(D) "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas,
			 or gas which is toxic or corrosive.
(E)
			 "Gas pipeline safety (GPS) proceeding" means a commission-ordered investigation
			 of any incident, violation, or possible noncompliance with the pipeline safety
			 code.
(F)
			 "Incident" has the same meaning as in the Natural Gas
			 Pipeline Safety Act.
(G) "Intrastate gas
			 pipeline facility" includes any new and existing pipelines, rights-of-way, and
			 any equipment, facility, or building used in the transportation of gas either
			 wholly or partly within this state or from an interstate gas pipeline in Ohio
			 to a direct sales customer in Ohio buying gas for its own
			 consumption.
(H) "MAOP" means the
			 maximum pressure at which a pipeline or segment of a pipeline may be operated
			 under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act or under sections
			 4905.90 to
			 4905.96 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I) "Master meter
			 system" means a pipeline system that distributes gas within a contiguous
			 property for which the system operator purchases gas for resale to consumers,
			 including tenants. Such pipeline system supplies consumers who purchase the gas
			 directly through a meter, or by paying rent, or by other means. The term
			 includes a master meter system as defined in
			 49 C.F.R.
			 191.3, as effective on the date referenced in
			 paragraph (D) of rule
			 4901:1-16-02 of the
			 Administrative Code. The term excludes a pipeline within a manufactured home,
			 mobile home, or a building.
(J) "Natural Gas
			 Pipeline Safety Act" means the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, 82
			 Stat. 720, 49 U.S.C.A. App. 1671 et. seq., as amended, and the rules adopted by
			 the United States department of transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas
			 Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, including
			 49 C.F.R.
			 40,
			 191,
			 192, and
			 199 as effective on the date
			 referenced in paragraph (D) of rule
			 4901:1-16-02 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(K) "Operator" means:
(1) A gas company as defined by division (D)
			 of section 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(2) A natural gas company,
			 including a producer of gas which does business as a natural gas company
			 pursuant to division (E) of section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(3) A pipeline company, when
			 engaged in the business of transporting gas by pipeline as defined by division
			 (F) of section 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(4) A public utility that is
			 excepted from the definition of "public utility" under division (A)(2) or
			 (A)(3) of section 4905.02 of the Revised Code,
			 when engaged in supplying or transporting gas by pipeline within this
			 state.
(5) Any person who owns,
			 operates, manages, controls, leases, or maintains an intrastate gas pipeline
			 facility or who engages in the transportation of gas. This includes, but is not
			 limited to, a person who owns, operates, manages, controls, leases, or
			 maintains a master meter system within this state.
"Operator" does not include an ultimate consumer who owns a
				service line on the real property of that ultimate consumer
				.