[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR281.203]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 281_NATURAL GAS CURTAILMENT UNDER THE NATURAL GAS POLICY ACT OF 
1978--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B_Permanent Curtailment Rule
 
Sec. 281.203  Definitions and cross references.

    (a) Definitions. For purposes of this subpart:
    (1) Direct sale customer means an essential agricultural user of 
high priority use which purchases natural gas directly from an 
interstate pipeline and consumes such natural gas for a high-priority 
use or an essential agricultural use.
    (2) Essential agricultural use means any use of natural gas which is 
certified by the Secretary of Agriculture as an ``essential agricultural 
use'' under section 401(c) of the NGPA, as identified in 7 CFR part 
2900, et seq.
    (3) Essential agricultural user means a person who uses natural gas 
for an essential agricultural use.
    (4) High-priority use means any use of natural gas which qualifies 
the user as a high-priority user.
    (5) High-priority user means any person who uses natural gas:
    (i) In a residence;
    (ii) In a small commercial establishment;
    (iii) In a school or a hospital; or
    (iv) For police protection, for fire protection, in a sanitation 
facility or a correctional facility.
    (6) End-use curtailment plan means a provision in the tariff of an 
interstate pipeline that requires that under circumstances of supply 
shortage natural gas deliveries will be curtailed based at least in part 
upon factors which consider the end-use of the natural gas.
    (7) Indirect sale customer of an interstate pipeline means an 
essential agricultural end-user served by a local distribution company 
which is served directly by the interstate pipeline.
    (8) Residence means a dwelling using natural gas predominantly for 
residential purposes such as space heating, air conditioning, hot water 
heating, cooking, clothes drying, and other residential uses and 
includes apartment buildings and other multi-unit buildings.
    (9) Small commercial establishment means any establishment 
(including institutions and local, state and Federal Government 
agencies) engaged primarily in the sale of goods or services where 
natural gas is used:
    (i) In amounts of less than 50 Mcf on a peak day; and
    (ii) For purposes other than those involving manufacturing or 
electric power generation.
    (10) Hospital means a facility, the primary function of which is 
delivering medical care to patients who remain at the facility including 
nursing and convalescent homes. Outpatient clinics or doctors' offices 
are not included in this definition.
    (11) School means a facility, the primary function of which is to 
deliver instruction to regularly enrolled students in attendance at such 
facility. Facilities used for both educational and noneducational 
activities are not included under this definition unless the latter 
activities are merely incidental to the delivery of instruction.
    (12) Local distribution company means a local distribution company 
served directly by an interstate pipeline.
    (13) Rolling base period means a time period in which entitlements 
of the customers of an interstate pipeline are established pursuant to 
the pipeline's currently effective curtailment plan and which is 
periodically updated to reflect recent gas requirements of such 
customers.
    (14) Entitlements of a direct sale customer or a local distribution 
company customer with respect to a particular interstate pipeline means 
the amount of natural gas that customer is permitted to receive under 
the interstate pipeline's currently effective curtailment plan.
    (15) Interstate pipeline purchaser means an interstate pipeline 
which received deliveries of natural gas from another interstate 
pipeline.

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    (16) Alternative fuel means alternative fuel as it is defined in 
Subpart C of this part.
    (b) Cross references. (1) Essential agricultural requirements are 
calculated in accordance with Sec. 281.208.
    (2) Index of entitlements is that index of entitlements prepared in 
accordance in Sec. 281.204(b).

[44 FR 26862, May 8, 1979, as amended by Order 29-C, 44 FR 61344, Oct. 
25, 1979; Order 55-B, 45 FR 54739, July 18, 1980]