As used in this Article:
1. "Arizona Office of Pipeline Safety" means
the Commission personnel assigned to perform the Commission's day-to-day
activities under A.R.S. Title 40, Chapter 2, Article 10, who are headquartered
at 1300 W. Washington Street, Suite 220 Phoenix, AZ 85007 and whose contact
information is available at
http://www.azcc.gov/Divisions/Safety.
2. "AZOPS" means "Arizona Office of Pipeline
Safety," as defined herein.
1.3. "Building" means any
structure intended for supporting or sheltering any occupancy.
2.4.
"Commission" means the Arizona Corporation Commission.
3.5.
"Discontinuation of service" means an interruption in service expected to
exceed four hours, occurring after an operator tests a service line or meter
set assembly and determines that additional actions are necessary to restore
service because of a leak or hazardous operating condition.
4.6.
"DOT" means the U.S. Department of Transportation.
5.7. "Evacuation" means
denying entry into or the organized clearing of a building or buildings,
involving:
a. One hundred or more individuals
from any number of buildings;
b.
All of the individuals present from five or more buildings;
c. All of the individuals present from five
or more businesses within a single building such as a strip mall; or
d. A nonresidential building known or
discovered to be occupied by individuals who are confined, are of impaired
mobility, or would be difficult to evacuate because of their age or physical or
mental condition or capabilities, such as a hospital, prison, school, daycare
facility, retirement facility, or assisted living facility.
6.
8. "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or toxic or
corrosive gas and includes LPG and LNG that is vaporized.
7.9.
"Hazardous liquid" means:
a.
Petroleum,
b. A petroleum product,
or
c. Anhydrous ammonia.
8.10. "Independent
laboratory" means a laboratory that is not owned or operated by the operator
and that has no affiliation with the operator through ownership, familial
relationship, or contractual or other relationship that results in the
laboratory being controlled by or under common control with the
operator.
9.11. "Intrastate
pipeline" means all pipeline facilities included in the definition of "pipeline
system" that are used by a provider to transport gas, LNG, or a hazardous
liquid within Arizona and that are not used to transport gas, LNG, or a
hazardous liquid in interstate or foreign commerce. This includes, without
limitation, any equipment, facility, building, or other property used or
intended for use in transporting gas, LNG, or a hazardous liquid.
10.12.
"Liquefied natural gas" means natural gas or synthetic gas having as its major
constituent methane (CH4) that has been changed to a liquid.
11.13.
"LNG" means liquefied natural gas.
12.14. "LNG facility"
means those portions of a pipeline system that are used for transporting or
storing LNG or for LNG conversion.
13.15. "LPG" means
liquefied petroleum gas.
14.16. "MAOP" means
maximum allowable operating pressure, the maximum pressure at which a gas or
LPG pipeline or segment of pipeline may be operated.
15.17. "Master meter
system" means physical facilities for distributing gas within a definable area
where the operator purchases metered gas from a provider to provide gas service
to two or more buildings other than at a single -family residence.
16. "Office of Pipeline Safety"
means the Commission personnel assigned to perform the Commission's day-to-day
activities under A.R.S. Title 40, Chapter 2, Article 10, who are headquartered
at 1300 W. Washington Street, Suite 220 Phoenix, AZ 85007 and whose contact
information is available at
http://www.azcc.gov/Divisions/Safety
17.18. "Operator" means a
person that owns or operates a pipeline system or master meter system.
18. "OPS" means "Office of
Pipeline Safety," as defined herein.
19. "Outage" means an unplanned and
unscheduled discontinuation of service:
a.
Concurrently to 250 or more residential customer accounts or to 10 or more
commercial customer accounts; or
b.
To a nonresidential building known or discovered to be occupied by individuals
who are confined, are of impaired mobility, or would be difficult to evacuate
or relocate because of age or physical or mental condition or capabilities,
such as a hospital, prison, school, daycare facility, retirement facility, or
assisted living facility.
20. "Person" means any individual, firm,
joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative association,
joint stock association, trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal
representative, or the state or any political subdivision of the
state.
21. "PHMSA" means the U.S.
Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
22. "Pipeline
system" means all parts of the physical facilities of a public service
corporation or provider through which gas, LPG, LNG, or a hazardous liquid
moves in transportation, including but not limited to pipes, compressor units,
metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders, fabricated
assemblies, and other equipment, buildings, and property so used.
23. "Provider" means any intrastate gas
pipeline operator, public service corporation, or municipality that provides
natural gas or LPG service to a master meter customer.
24. "PSIG" means pounds per square inch
gauge.
25. "Public service
corporation" has the same meaning as in Article 15, § 2 of the Arizona
Constitution.
10. "Office of Pipeline Safety"
means the Pipeline Safety personnel for the
Commission.
26.
"Sandy type soil" means sand no larger than "coarse" as defined by the American
Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM D-2487-83, Standard Practice for
Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes (1983), including no future
editions or amendments, which is incorporated by reference; on file with the
Office of Pipeline Safety; and published by and available from ASTM
International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, P.O. Box C700, West Conshocken, PA,
19428-2959.
27. "Sour gas" means
natural gas that contains the corrosive sulfur-bearing compound hydrogen
sulfide (H2S) in a concentration that exceeds a minimum
threshold of 0.25 grain of hydrogen sulfide per 100 cubic feet (5.8
milligrams/m3) under standard operating conditions
(4 parts per million).
28. "Sour
oil" means crude oil containing the impurity sulfur in a concentration greater
than 0.5 percent.
29. "State" means
the state of Arizona and all lands within its boundaries.
30. "Structure" means something that is built
or constructed, or any piece of work artificially composed of parts joined
together in some definite manner.
31. "Transport" or "transportation" of gas,
LNG, or a hazardous liquid means the gathering, transmission, distribution, or
storage of gas, LNG, or a hazardous liquid using a pipeline system within the
state.
32. "Unknown failure" means
an occurrence in which a portion of a pipeline system fails, and:
a. The cause cannot be attributed to any
observable corrosion, third-party damage, natural or other outside force,
construction or material defect, equipment malfunction, or incorrect
operations; or
b. The operator and
the Office of Pipeline Safety disagree as to the cause.