[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR192.3]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                       TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 192--TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE: MINIMUM FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 192.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    Abandoned means permanently removed from service.
    Administrator means the Administrator of the Research and Special 
Programs Administration or any person to whom authority in the matter 
concerned has been delegated by the Secretary of Transportation.
    Distribution line means a pipeline other than a gathering or 
transmission line.
    Exposed pipeline means a pipeline where the top of the pipe is 
protruding above the seabed in water less than 15 feet (4.6 meters) 
deep, as measured from the mean low water.
    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.
    Gulf of Mexico and its inlets means the waters from the mean high 
water mark of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and its inlets open to the 
sea (excluding rivers, tidal marshes, lakes, and canals) seaward to 
include the territorial sea and Outer Continental Shelf to a depth of 15 
feet (4.6 meters), as measured from the mean low water.
    Hazard to navigation means, for the purpose of this part, a pipeline 
where the top of the pipe is less than 12 inches (305 millimeters) below 
the seabed in water less than 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep, as measured 
from the mean low water.
    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.
    Line section means a continuous run of transmission line between 
adjacent compressor stations, between a compressor station and storage 
facilities, between a compressor station and a block valve, or between 
adjacent block valves.
    Listed specification means a specification listed in section I of 
appendix B of this part.
    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.

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    Maximum actual operating pressure means the maximum pressure that 
occurs during normal operations over a period of 1 year.
    Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) means the maximum 
pressure at which a pipeline or segment of a pipeline may be operated 
under this part.
    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.
    Outer Continental Shelf means all submerged lands lying seaward and 
outside the area of lands beneath navigable waters as defined in Section 
2 of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1301) and of which the subsoil 
and seabed appertain to the United States and are subject to its 
jurisdiction and control.
    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.
    Petroleum gas means propane, propylene, butane, (normal butane or 
isobutanes), and butylene (including isomers), or mixtures composed 
predominantly of these gases, having a vapor pressure not exceeding 208 
psi (1434 kPa) gage at 100  deg.F (38  deg.C).
    Pipe means any pipe or tubing used in the transportation of gas, 
including pipe-type holders.
    Pipeline means all parts of those physical facilities through which 
gas moves in transportation, including pipe, valves, and other 
appurtenance attached to pipe, 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 a listed 
specification, the yield strength specified as a minimum in that 
specification; or
    (2) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown or 
unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with 
Sec. 192.107(b).
    State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, 
and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    Transmission line means a pipeline, other than a gathering line, 
that:
    (a) Transports gas from a gathering line or storage facility to a 
distribution center, storage facility, or large volume customer that is 
not downstream from a distribution center;
    (b) Operates at a hoop stress of 20 percent or more of SMYS; or
    (c) Transports gas within a storage field. A large volume customer 
may receive similar volumes of gas as a distribution center, and 
includes factories, power plants, and institutional users of gas.
    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.

[Amdt. 192-13, 38 FR 9084, Apr. 10, 1973, as amended by Amdt. 192-27, 41 
FR 34605, Aug. 16, 1976; Amdt. 192-58, 53 FR 1635, Jan. 21, 1988; Amdt. 
192-67, 56 FR 63771, Dec. 5, 1991; Amdt. 192-72, 59 FR 17281, Apr. 12, 
1994; Amdt. 192-78, 61 FR 28783, June 6, 1996; Amdt. 192-81, 62 FR 
61695, Nov. 19, 1997; Amdt. 192-85, 63 FR 37501, July 13, 1998; Amdt. 
192-89, 65 FR 54443, Sept. 8, 2000]