Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-93 - Gas companiesSafety › Section 480-93-005 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
"Bar
			 hole"
means a hole made in the soil or paving for the specific purpose
			 of testing the subsurface atmosphere with a combustible gas
			 indicator.
(2)
"Building"
means any structure that is normally or occasionally
			 entered by humans for business, residential, or other purposes and where gas
			 could accumulate.
(3)
"Business district"
means an area where the public regularly
			 congregates or where the majority of the buildings on either side of the street
			 are regularly utilized, for financial, commercial, industrial, religious,
			 educational, health, or recreational purposes.
(4)
"C.F.R."
means the Code of
			 Federal Regulations.
(5)
"Combustible gas indicator" (CGI)
means a device capable of
			 detecting and measuring gas concentrations in air.
(6)
"Commission"
means the
			 Washington utilities and transportation commission.
(7)
"Enclosed space"
means any
			 subsurface structure of sufficient size that could accommodate a person and
			 within which gas could accumulate, e.g., vaults, catch basins, and
			 manholes.
(8)
"Emergency
			 notification line"
means 1-888-321-9144.
(9)
"Follow-up inspection"
means
			 an inspection performed after a repair has been completed in order to determine
			 the effectiveness of the repair.
(10)
"Gas"
means natural gas,
			 flammable gas, or gas that is toxic or corrosive.
(11)
"Gas associated
			 substructures"
means those devices or facilities utilized by a gas
			 pipeline company which are not intended for storing, transporting, or
			 distributing gas, such as valve boxes, vaults, test boxes, and vented casing
			 pipe.
(12)
"Gas
			 pipeline"
means all parts of a pipeline facility through which gas moves
			 in transportation including, but not limited to, line pipe, valves, and other
			 appurtenances connected to line pipe, compressor units, metering stations,
			 regulator stations, delivery stations, holders and fabricated assemblies. "Gas
			 pipeline" does not include any pipeline facilities, other than a master meter
			 system, owned by a consumer or consumers of the gas, located exclusively on the
			 consumer or consumers' property, and none of the gas leaves that property
			 through a pipeline.
(13)
"Gas
			 pipeline company"
means a person or entity constructing, owning or
			 operating a gas pipeline for transporting gas. "Gas pipeline company" includes
			 a person or entity owning or operating a master meter system. "Gas pipeline
			 company" does not include excavation contractors or other contractors that
			 contract with a gas pipeline company.
(14)
"High occupancy structure or
			 area"
means a building or an outside area (such as a playground,
			 recreation area, outdoor theater, or other place of public assembly) that is
			 occupied by 20 or more persons on at least five days a week for 10 weeks in any
			 12-month period. (The days and weeks need not be consecutive.)
(15)
"Indication"
means a
			 response indicated by a gas detection instrument that has not been verified as
			 a reading.
(16)
"LEL"
means the lower explosive limit of the gas being transported.
(17)
"Line pipe"
or
"pipe"
means a tube, usually cylindrical, through which a
			 hazardous liquid or gas is transported from one point to another.
(18)
"MAOP"
means maximum
			 allowable operating pressure.
(19)
"Master meters system"
means a pipeline system for distributing
			 gas within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a mobile home park,
			 housing project, or apartment complex, where the operator purchases metered gas
			 from an outside source for resale through a gas distribution pipeline system.
			 The gas distribution pipeline system supplies the ultimate consumer who either
			 purchases the gas directly through a meter or by any other means, such as by
			 rents.
(20)
"Prompt
			 action"
means to dispatch qualified personnel without undue
			 delay.
(21)
"Psig"
means pounds per square inch gauge.
(22)
"Reading"
means a
			 repeatable representation on a combustible gas indicator or equivalent
			 instrument expressed in percent LEL or gas-air ratio.
(23)
"Record(s)"
means any
			 electronic or paper document, map, database, report or drawing created by or
			 kept by a gas pipeline company.
(24)
"Sniff test"
means a
			 qualitative test utilizing both threshold and readily detectable methods for
			 determining proper concentrations of odorant.
(25)
"Transmission line"
means a
			 gas pipeline as defined in
			 49 C.F.R. §
									192.3 on the date specified in WAC
			 480-93-999.
(26)
"Weak link"
means a device
			 or method used when pulling polyethylene pipe to ensure that damage will not
			 occur to the pipeline by exceeding the maximum tensile stresses
			 allowed.
(27) Other terms that
			 correspond to those used in 49 C.F.R. Parts 191, 192, 193, 196, and 199
			 (Minimum Federal Safety Standards for Gas Pipelines) must be construed as used
			 therein on the date specified in WAC
			 480-93-999.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040,
				  80.04.060 and
				  81.88.040. 08-12-046 (Docket
				  PG-070975, General Order R-549), § 480-93-005, filed 5/30/08, effective
				  6/30/08. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040,
				  81.01.010, and
				  81.88.060. 07-18-010 (Docket
				  PG-061027, General Order R-544), § 480-93-005, filed 8/23/07, effective
				  9/23/07. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.04.160, 80.28.210(1), and
				  80.01.040(1).
				  05-23-174 (Docket No. PG-050933, General Order No. R-524), § 480-93-005,
				  filed 11/23/05, effective 12/24/05. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.04.160, 80.28.210, and
				  80.01.040. 05-10-055 (Docket No.
				  UG-011073, General Order No. R-520), § 480-93-005, filed 5/2/05, effective
				  6/2/05. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040,
				  80.04.160,
				  81.04.160, and
				  34.05.310. 01-20-061 (Docket No.
				  A-010827, General Order No. R-491), § 480-93-005, filed 9/28/01, effective
				  10/29/01. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040 and 80.28.210. 95-13-082 (Order
				  R-427, Docket No. UG-950061), § 480-93-005, filed 6/20/95, effective
				  7/21/95. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040. 92-16-100 (Order R-375, Docket No.
				  UG-911261), § 480-93-005, filed 8/5/92, effective 9/5/92; Order R-100,
				  § 480-93-005, filed 5/18/77. Formerly WAC
				  480-93-001.