[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1981.101]

[Page 219]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1981_PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING OF DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS 
 
 Subpart A_Complaints, Investigations, Findings, and Preliminary Orders
 
Sec. 1981.101  Definitions.

    ``Act'' or ``Pipeline Safety Act'' means section 6 of the Pipeline 
Safety Improvement Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107-355, December 17, 
2002, 49 U.S.C. 60129.
    ``Assistant Secretary'' means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health or the person or persons to whom he or 
she delegates authority under the Act.
    ``Complainant'' means the employee who filed a complaint under the 
Act or on whose behalf a complaint was filed.
    ``Employee'' means an individual presently or formerly working for a 
person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or 
subcontractor of such a person, an individual applying to work for a 
person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or 
subcontractor of such a person, or an individual whose employment could 
be affected by a person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a 
contractor or subcontractor of such a person.
    ``Employer'' means a person owning or operating a pipeline facility 
or a contractor or subcontractor of such a person.
    ``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 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.
    ``Named person'' means the person alleged to have violated the Act.
    ``OSHA'' means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of 
the United States Department of Labor.
    ``Person'' means a corporation, company, association, firm, 
partnership, joint stock company, an individual, a State, a 
municipality, and a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal 
representative of a person.
    ``Pipeline facility'' means a gas pipeline facility and a hazardous 
liquid pipeline facility.
    ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Labor or persons to whom 
authority under the Act has been delegated.