Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE
Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Chapter 77 - TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE; MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL
Section 6-77-2 - Definitions
"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the State or any person to whom it has delegated authority in the matter concerned.
"Distribution line" means a pipeline other than a gathering or transmission line.
"Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or corrosive.
"Gathering line" means a pipeline that transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line or main.
"High pressure distribution system" means a distribution system in which the gas pressure in the main is higher than the pressure provided to the customer.
"Incident" means any of the following events:
(1) An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline or of liquefied natural gas or gas from an LNG facility and
(A) A death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient hospitalization; or
(B) Estimated property damage, including cost of gas lost, of the operator or others, or both, of $50,000 or more.
(2) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG facility;
(3) An event that is significant, in the judgement of the operator, even though it did not meet the criteria of paragraphs (1) or (2).
"Listed specification" means a specification listed in section I of Appendix B of this chapter.
"LNG facility" means a liquefied natural gas facility as defined in section 193.2007 of Part 193 of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.).
"Low-pressure distribution system" means a distribution system in which the gas pressure in the main is substantially the same as the pressure provided to the customer.
"Main" means a distribution line that serves as a common source of supply for more than one service line.
"Master meter 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 other means, such as by rents.
"Maximum actual operating pressure" means the maximum pressure that occurs during normal operations over a period of one year.
"Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP)" means the maximum pressure at which a pipeline may be operated under this chapter.
"Municipality" means a city, county, or any other political subdivision of a state.
"Offshore" means beyond the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast of the United States that is in direct contact with the open seas and beyond the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters.
"Operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of gas.
"Person" means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, state, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and including any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
"Pipe" means any pipe or tubing used in the transportation of gas, including pipe-type holders.
"Pipeline" or "pipeline system" means all parts of those physical facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including, but not limited to, pipe, valves, and other appurtenances attached to pipes, compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders, and fabricated assemblies.
"Pipeline facility" means new and existing pipelines, rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used in the transportation of gas or in the treatment of gas during the course of transportation.
"Service line" means a distribution line that transports gas from a common source of supply to
(1) A customer meter or the connection to a customer's piping, whichever is farther downstream; or
(2) The connection to a customer's piping if there is no customer meter. A customer meter is the meter that measures the transfer of gas from an operator to a consumer.
"SMYS" means specified minimum yield strength is:
(1) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with section 6-77-30(b);
(2) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with section 6-77-30(b).
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Transmission line" means a pipeline, other than a gathering line, that:
(1) Transports gas from a gathering line or storage facility to a distribution center or storage facility;
(2) Operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more SMYS; or
(3) Transports gas within a storage field.
"Transportation of gas" means the gathering, transmission, or distribution of gas by pipeline or the storage of gas, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
