[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR191.3]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                       TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 191_TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE; ANNUAL REPORTS, 
INCIDENT REPORTS, AND SAFETY-RELATED CONDITION REPORTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 191.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part and the RSPA Forms referenced in this part--
    Administrator means the Administrator, Research and Special Programs 
Administration or his or her delegate
    Gas means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or 
corrosive;
    Incident means any of the following events:
    (1) An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline or of 
liquefied natural gas or gas from an LNG facility and
    (i) A death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient 
hospitalization; or
    (ii) Estimated property damage, including cost of gas lost, of the 
operator or others, or both, of $50,000 or more.
    (2) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG 
facility.
    (3) An event that is significant, in the judgement of the operator, 
even though it did not meet the criteria of paragraphs (1) or (2).
    LNG facility means a liquefied natural gas facility as defined in 
Sec. 193.2007 of part 193 of this chapter;
    Master Meter System means a pipeline system for distributing gas 
within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a mobile home 
park, housing project, or apartment complex, where the operator 
purchases metered gas from an outside source for resale through a gas 
distribution pipeline system. The gas distribution pipeline system 
supplies the ultimate consumer who either purchases the gas directly 
through a meter or by other means, such as by rents;
    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 includes any trustee, receiver, 
assignee, or personal representative thereof;
    Pipeline or Pipeline System means all parts of those physical 
facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including, but not 
limited to, pipe, valves, and other appurtenance attached to pipe, 
compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery 
stations, holders, and fabricated assemblies.
    State includes each of the several States, the District of Columbia, 
and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
    Transportation of gas means the gathering, transmission, or 
distribution of gas by pipeline, or the storage of gas in

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or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.

[35 FR 320, Jan. 8, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 191-5, 49 FR 18960, May 3, 
1984; Amdt. 191-10, 61 FR 18516, Apr. 26, 1996; Amdt. 191-12, 62 FR 
61695, Nov. 19, 1997; 68 FR 11749, Mar. 12, 2003]