- abandoned
means permanently removed from service.
- damage prevention process
means a process that incorporates the principles described in sections 60114(b), 60114(d), and 60114(e).
- eligible applicant
means a nonprofit entity that—
- employer
means—
- gas
means natural gas, flammable gas, or toxic or corrosive gas;
- gas pipeline facility
includes a pipeline, a right of way, a facility, a building, or equipment used in transporting gas or treating gas during its transportation;
- hazardous liquid
means—
- hazardous liquid pipeline facility
includes a pipeline, a right of way, a facility, a building, or equipment used or intended to be used in transporting hazardous liquid;
- high consequence area
has the meaning given that term in section 195.450 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.
- high-consequence area
means an area described in section 60109(a).
- imminent hazard
means the existence of a condition relating to a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility that presents a substantial likelihood that death, serious illness, severe personal injury, or a substantial endangerment to health, property, or the environment may occur before the reasonably foreseeable completion date of a formal proceeding begun to lessen the risk of such death, illness, injury, or endangerment.
- interstate gas pipeline facility
means a gas pipeline facility—
- interstate hazardous liquid pipeline facility
means a hazardous liquid pipeline facility used to transport hazardous liquid in interstate or foreign commerce;
- intrastate gas pipeline facility
means a gas pipeline facility and transportation of gas within a State not subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.);
- intrastate hazardous liquid pipeline facility
means a hazardous liquid pipeline facility that is not an interstate hazardous liquid pipeline facility;
- liquefied natural gas
means natural gas in a liquid or semisolid state;
- liquefied natural gas accident
means a release, burning, or explosion of liquefied natural gas from any cause, except a release, burning, or explosion that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, does not pose a threat to public health or safety, property, or the environment;
- liquefied natural gas conversion
means conversion of natural gas into liquefied natural gas or conversion of liquefied natural gas into natural gas;
- low-stress hazardous liquid pipeline
means a hazardous liquid pipeline that is operated in its entirety at a stress level of 20 percent or less of the specified minimum yield strength of the line pipe.
- municipality
means a political subdivision of a State;
- new liquefied natural gas pipeline facility
means a liquefied natural gas pipeline facility except an existing liquefied natural gas pipeline facility;
- obstructs
includes actions that were known, or reasonably should have been known, to prevent, hinder, or impede an investigation without good cause.
- petroleum product
means oil of any kind or in any form, gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, any product obtained from refining or processing of crude oil, liquefied petroleum gases, natural gas liquids, petrochemical feedstocks, condensate, waste or refuse mixtures containing any of such oil products, and any other liquid hydrocarbon compounds.
- pipeline facility
includes an underwater abandoned pipeline facility.
- pipeline transportation
means transporting gas and transporting hazardous liquid;
- risk management
means the systematic application, by the owner or operator of a pipeline facility, of management policies, procedures, finite resources, and practices to the tasks of identifying, analyzing, assessing, reducing, and controlling risk in order to protect employees, the general public, the environment, and pipeline facilities;
- risk management plan
means a management plan utilized by a gas or hazardous liquid pipeline facility owner or operator that encompasses risk management;
- Secretary
means the Secretary of Transportation;
- solid waste
has the meaning given that term in section 1004(27) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903(27)).
- State
means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico;
- technical assistance
means engineering, research, and other scientific analysis of pipeline safety issues, including the promotion of public participation on technical pipeline safety issues in proceedings related to this chapter.
- transportation-related oil flow line
means a pipeline transporting oil off of the grounds of the well where it originated and across areas not owned by the producer, regardless of the extent to which the oil has been processed, if at all.
- underground natural gas storage facility
means a gas pipeline facility that stores natural gas in an underground facility, including—