Virginia Administrative Code › Title 20 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS › Agency 5 - STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION › Chapter 360 - LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER TO EXERCISE RESPONSIBLE CHARGE OVER CERTAIN NATURAL GAS ENGINEERING PROJECTS › Section 20VAC5-360-20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
Terms used in this chapter shall have the same meaning and
				  effect as in the federal pipeline safety laws under 49 USC § 60101 et seq. and
				  49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 195, and 199. In addition, the following words and
				  terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the
				  context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means Chapter 822 of the 2020 Acts of Assembly.
"Bypass" means a pipeline connection or control mechanism
				  installed in order to allow construction, maintenance, or repair work, thus
				  altering the flow of gas or hazardous liquid to different facilities other than
				  those transporting the gas prior to installation of the pipeline connection or
				  control mechanism.
"Commission" means the Virginia State Corporation
				  Commission.
"Commission's pipeline safety standards" means standards for
				  gas and hazardous liquid pipeline facilities adopted, prescribed, or enforced
				  by the commission pursuant to §§ 56-257.2 and 56-555 of the Code of Virginia;
				  49 USC § 60101 et seq.; and 20VAC5-300-70, 20VAC5-307-10, and
				  20VAC5-308-10.
"Compressor stations" means pipeline facilities that compress
				  natural gas, increasing the pressure and providing the energy needed to move
				  the gas through the pipeline.
"District regulator stations" means a pressure regulating
				  station that controls pressure to a high-pressure or low-pressure distribution
				  main.
"Emergency work" means nonroutine maintenance or repair work,
				  such as repairs to hazardous leaks, that should be performed immediately.
				  Examples include third party damages, repairs, work to maintain priority
				  service, reduce customer outages as a matter of safety, and compromises to
				  system integrity as a cause of overpressurization.
"Engineered structures" means distribution mains vertically
				  attached to buildings, overpasses, or water crossings.
"Gate station" means pressure regulating stations where
				  custody of natural gas or hazardous liquid is transferred from an interstate
				  supplier to a Virginia public service company.
"Maintenance" means any repair or rehabilitation activity
				  performed on a pipeline facility or prescribed by 49 CFR 192, Subpart M.
"MAOP" means maximum allowable operating pressure.
"O&M Procedures" means any operations or maintenance
				  procedures or processes prepared by the operator for conducting operations and
				  maintenance activities or emergency response, as prescribed by 49 CFR 192,
				  Subpart L.
"Peak shaving facilities" means pipeline storage facilities
				  designed to house natural gas or propane gas for reintroduction into an
				  operator's system at times of peak demand. These facilities may store liquefied
				  natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
"P.E. stamp" means a professional seal as prescribed by
				  18VAC10-20-760, pertaining to use of seal.
"Public right-of-way" means any portion of a designated
				  interstate or limited access expressway or freeway as defined in the Federal
				  Highway Administration's Highway Functional Classification Concepts, Criteria
				  and Procedures. Section 3.1 (see:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/processes/statewide/related/highway_functional_classifications/fcauab.pdf
).
"Professional engineer" or "P.E." means a person who is
				  qualified to practice engineering by reason of special knowledge and use of
				  mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences and the principles and methods
				  of engineering analysis and design acquired by engineering education and
				  experience, and whose competence has been attested by the Board for Architects.
				  Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers and
				  Landscape Architects through licensure as a professional engineer.
"PSIG" means pounds per square inch, gauge.
"Repair" means any activity on a distribution main or
				  transmission line that calls for removing the leak by cutting out and replacing
				  a cylindrical piece of pipe, installing a pressure-carrying full encirclement
				  welded split sleeve of appropriate design, or any other permanent repair that
				  is consistent with 49 CFR § 192.717.
"Tie-in" means any process of connecting a newly installed
				  pipeline to either an existing pipeline or another newly installed pipeline by
				  means of joining.
"Uprating" means the act of increasing maximum allowable
				  operating pressures for pipelines.
Statutory Authority: §§ 12.1-13 and 56-257.2:1 of the Code
					 of Virginia.