Pennsylvania Code › Title 67 - TRANSPORTATION › Part I - Department of Transportation › Subpart A - Vehicle Code Provisions › Article VII - Vehicle Characteristics › Chapter 190 - LETTER OF LOCAL DETERMINATION-STATEMENT OF POLICY › Section 190.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Act 13
-The act of February 14, 2012 (P.
						L. 87, No. 13).
At-risk industry sector
-Industry sectors
						defined by the Department of Labor and Industry as having experienced a 20% or
						more decline in Statewide employment between March 2002 and March 2011 and
						additional industry sectors that the Department determines, in consultation
						with the Department of Labor and Industry, to show evidence of economic
						decline.
Commercial establishment
-A place
						including the rooms, buildings and interior or exterior places where
						commodities or services are exchanged, bought or sold.
Commercial site
-The location of a
						commercial establishment.
Department
-The Department of
						Transportation of the Commonwealth.
Develop
-The processes associated with
						conventional and unconventional oil and gas development.
Extract
-The processes associated with
						gathering or removal of minerals, wind and other natural resources from the
						air, surface or subsurface, including, but not limited to, coal, stone, water
						and related site preparation, construction and onsite stockpiling.
Harvest
-The processes associated with
						the cutting, gathering, stacking or removal of timber and other similar natural
						resources for future use, whether cultivated or wild, including, but not
						limited to, site excavation, grading and construction activities.
Industry sector
-A sector included in the
						North American Industry Classification System.
Natural resource
-
(i) Material from nature having potential
					 economic value including, but not limited to, timber, minerals, oil, gas, wind
					 and water.
(ii) The term does not
					 include trees grown specifically for use in landscaping or as Christmas trees,
					 or food crops, animals or animal products intended for human or animal
					 consumption such as corn, wheat and milk.
Permanent coal reprocessing or preparation
						plant
-
(i) One or more
					 permanent facilities located adjacently on a single roadway where coal is
					 delivered directly from the natural resource extraction site and is subjected
					 to chemical or physical processing or cleaning, concentrating, or other
					 processing or preparation. Stockpile or storage facilities located on the same
					 posted highway as the processing facility may be included.
(ii) The term does not include ancillary
					 facilities located separately from the initial processing facility site or at
					 the coal extraction site.
Permanent forest product processing
						mill
-
(i) One or more
					 permanent facilities located adjacently on a single roadway where logs,
					 pulpwood, wood chips or other forest products are delivered directly from the
					 natural resource harvest site to undergo processing. Processing includes bark
					 removal, sawing, resawing, slicing, chipping, pelletizing, edging, trimming,
					 planing or machining.
(ii) The term
					 includes log stockpile facilities.
(iii) The term does not include log landing
					 sites or portable sawmills unless the portable sawmill has become permanently
					 affixed to the real estate.
Unconventional oil and gas
						development
-
(i) The
					 activities associated with unconventional oil or gas well construction
					 including site preparation and reclamation, drilling, completion and pipeline
					 construction on oil and gas gathering pipelines, not including transmission and
					 distribution pipelines.
(ii) The
					 term shall be read consistently with "unconventional formation" and
					 "unconventional gas well" as defined in Act 13.
(iii) The terms "gathering," "transmission"
					 and "distribution pipelines" shall be read consistently with the definitions of
					 those terms in the Federal pipeline safety regulations of the United States
					 Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
					 Administration in 49 CFR
					 192.3 (relating to
					 definitions).
The provisions of this §
													190.2 amended under section 7 of
						  the act of February 14, 2012 (P. L. 87, No. 13), the act of November 25, 2013
						  (P. L. 974, No. 89) and the Vehicle Code,
						  75 Pa.C.S. §§
														4902 and
						  6103.