Section 170IAC5-3-0.5. Definitions

  5. (a) Terms used in this rule, unless otherwise provided, have the meanings set forth in the following:

(1) 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, and 195.

(2) IC 8-1-22.5.

  (b) The following definitions apply throughout this rule:

(1) "Abnormal operation" means any of the following:

(A) An unintended closure of valves or shutdowns.

(B) An increase or decrease in pressure or flow rate outside normal operating limits.

(C) A loss of communications.

(D) The operation of a safety device.

(E) Another foreseeable malfunction of a component, deviation from normal operation, or personnel error that may result in a hazard to persons or property.

(2) "Accident" means a failure in a hazardous liquids pipeline system that has at least one (1) of the results listed in 49 CFR 195.50 requiring an accident report.

(3) "Commission" means the Indiana utility regulatory commission.

(4) "Division" means the pipeline safety division of the commission.

(5) "Division engineer" means an engineer on the staff of the division.

(6) "Incident" means an event that:

(A) 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 inpatient hospitalization;

(ii) estimated property damage, including cost of gas lost, of the operator or others, or both, of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more; or

(iii) unintentional estimated gas loss of three million (3,000,000) cubic feet or more;

(B) results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG facility; or

(C) is significant, in the judgment of the operator, even though it did not meet the criteria of clause (A) or (B).

(7) "Jurisdictional" means an operator owned facility that ends at the outlet of the customer meter or at the connection to a customer's piping, whichever is further downstream, or at the connection to customer piping if there is no meter.

(8) "Operator" means a person or entity that operates intrastate pipeline facilities in the state of Indiana in which at least one (1) of the following are transported:

(A) Natural or other hazardous flammable gas.

(B) Hazardous liquids.

(C) Carbon dioxide fluids.

(Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission; 170 IAC 5-3-0.5; filed Feb 9, 2010, 9:24 a.m.: 20100310-IR-170090190FRA; filed May 27, 2016, 11:39 a.m.: 20160622-IR-170150424FRA)