Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Title 291 - NEBRASKA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Chapter 9 - NATURAL GAS AND PIPELINE RULES AND REGULATIONS
Section 291-9-001 - GENERAL

001.01A Affiliate: A person or entity that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a jurisdictional utility or competitive natural gas provider. A voting interest of 10 percent or more creates a rebuttable presumption of control.

001.01B Aggregator: A person who combines retail end users into a group and arranges for the acquisition of competitive natural gas services without taking title to those services.

001.01C Competitive Natural Gas Provider or "CNGP": A person who takes title to natural gas and sells it for consumption by a retail end-user in the state of Nebraska, and for purposes of this section also means an aggregator as defined in LB 790 [2003], Sec. 48(1). CNGP includes an affiliate of a Nebraska natural gas public utility. CNGP does not include the following

001.01D Consumer Choice Program: A program offered by a jurisdictional utility that allows ratepayers, other than high-volume ratepayers, to purchase their gas supplies from a person other than the local gas utility.

001.01E Extension or Enlargement of a Service Area: The proposed extension or enlargement of a natural gas service area, natural gas mains, or natural gas services by an investor-owned utility or by a metropolitan utilities district.

001.01F Facility: New and existing pipelines, rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used in the transportation of liquid or gas or in the treatment of gas during the course of transportation.

001.01GJurisdictional Utility: A natural gas utility subject to the jurisdietion of the Commission. Jurisdictional utility shall not mean a natural gas public utility not subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission pursuant to LB 790, Sec. 3 [2003].

001.01H Major Oil Pipeline: For purposes of Section 023, a major oil pipeline shall mean a pipeline which is larger than six inches (6") in inside diameter and which is constructed in Nebraska for the transportation of petroleum, or petroleum components, products, or wastes, including crude oil or any fraction of crude oil, within, through, or across Nebraska, but does not include in-field and gathering lines or major oil pipelines otherwise exempt under the Major Oil Pipeline Siting Act.

001.01I Metropolitan Utilities District A district constituted by an area as defined in Neb. Rev. Stat. Section 14-2101 (Reissue 1997) .

001.01J Natural Gas Public Utility: Any corporation, company, individual, or association of persons or their trustees, lessees, or receivers that owns, controls, operates, or manages, except for private use, any equipment, plant, or machinery, or any part thereof, for the conveyance of natural gas through pipelines in or through any part of this state. Natural gas public utility does not mean a natural gas utility owned or operated by a city or a metropolitan utilities district. Natural gas public utility does not include any activity of an otherwise jurisdictional corporation, company, individual, or association of persons or their trustees, lessees, or receivers as to the marketing or sale of compressed natural gas for end use as motor vehicle fuel. Natural gas public utility does not include any gas gathering system or interstate pipeline.

001.01K Pipeline: For purposes of Section 023, pipeline shall mean a pipe used to transport, transmit, convey, or store liquid or gas for hire in Nebraska intrastate commerce other than a major oil pipeline, a gathering pipeline, distribution pipeline, or service line.

001.01L Pipeline Carrier: For purposes of Section 023, pipeline carrier shall mean a person that engages in owning, operating, or managing a major oil pipeline.

001.01M Prudent: Prudent shall mean that in making a decision a natural gas public utility has acted as any reasonable utility management would have acted in good faith, based upon the facts known or which should have been known at the time the decision was made.

001.01N Retail End-user: Any person or entity, including any manufacturer or producer of any product, purchasing natural gas for its own consumption, and not for resale or consumption by any other person or entity, without restriction based upon volume of gas consumed.

001.01O Safety Data SheetSafety data sheet means written or printed material concerning a hazardous chemical that is prepared in accordance with paragraph 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200(g) as it existed on October 1, 2012.

001.01P Seasonal Disconnection Charge: A charge applied by a jurisdictional utility to a ratepayer who disconnects and reconnects service at the same premises within a twelve-month period requiring the ratepayer to pay in whole or in part charges for the months he or she was disconnected.

001.01Q Test Year: Either a consecutive twelve-month period commencing on the proposed effective date of the rate increase or a base year adjusted for known and measurable changes.

001.01R Supplier: A CNGP that participates in a consumer choice program.