- Commissioner
means the Federal Power Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
- conservation measures
means such energy conservation measures, as determined by the Commission, as were implemented after the base period established under the curtailment plan in effect on November 9, 1978.
- contractual interests
means the right to receive natural gas under contract as affected by an applicable curtailment plan filed with the Commission or the appropriate State regulatory authority.
- Corporation
includes any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or receivers, trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall not include municipalities as hereinafter defined.
- curtailment plan
means a plan (including any modification of such plan required by the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 [15 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.]), in effect under the Natural Gas Act or State law, which provides for recognizing and implementing priorities of service during periods of curtailed deliveries by any local distribution company, intrastate pipeline, or interstate pipeline.
- facility
means any electric powerplant, or major fuel burning installation, as such terms are defined in the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 [42 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.].
- heavy petroleum fuel oil
means number 4, 5, or 6 fuel oil which is domestically refined.
- high priority use
means any—
- high-priority use
means any use of natural gas (other than its use for the generation of steam for industrial purposes or electricity) identified by the Commission as a high priority use for which the Commission determines a substitute fuel is not reasonably available.
- Interstate commerce
means commerce between any point in a State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the same State but through any place outside thereof, but only insofar as such commerce takes place within the United States.
- interstate pipeline
means any person engaged in natural gas transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.].
- intrastate pipeline
means any person engaged in natural gas transportation (not including gathering) which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Natural Gas Act.
- local distribution company
means any person engaged in the transportation, or local distribution, of natural gas and the sale of natural gas for ultimate consumption.
- Municipality
means a city, county, or other political subdivision or agency of a State.
- Natural gas
means either natural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.
- Natural-gas company
means a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
- Person
includes an individual or a corporation.
- petroleum products
means crude oil, or any product derived from crude oil other than propane.
- State
means a State admitted to the Union, the District of Columbia, and any organized Territory of the United States.
- State commission
means the regulatory body of the State or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality.
- Vehicular natural gas
means natural gas that is ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.