Section 15-2370. PERIODIC AND PERFORMANCE TESTING

2370.1Each gas corporation shall periodically test its meters, associated devices, and instruments to assure their accuracy unless otherwise authorized or required by the Commission.

2370.2Each gas corporation may elect to test all meters in each group in accordance with the Periodic and Performance Testing Program, as set forth in this section, or in accordance with § 2371, the In-Service Performance Testing Program, or in accordance with any other meter testing program approved by the Commission’s Office of Engineering.

2370.3Each gas corporation shall notify the Commission's Office of Engineering within twelve (12) months of the effective date of this section, which method it will follow for each group, and the election shall then be effective for at least five (5) years.

2370.4Meters shall be grouped as follows:

(a)Group I - Up to and including four hundred fifty (450) cfh rated capacity;

(b)Group II - Over four hundred fifty (450) cfh capacity and up to and including one thousand eight hundred (1,800) cfh rated capacity; and

(c)Group III - Over one thousand eight hundred (1,800) cfh rated capacity.

2370.5The meter test schedule for the respective groups shall be as follows:

(a)Group I meters shall be tested at least once in fourteen (14) years;

(b)Group II meters shall be tested at least once in ten (10) years; and

(c)Group III - meters shall be tested at least once in five (5) years.

2370.6Pressure compensating devices and pressure recording devices shall be tested at least once every twenty-four (24) months.

2370.7Temperature compensating devices and temperature recording devices shall be tested at least once every twenty-four (24) months.

2370.8Regulators associated with meters shall have the same interval between tests as its associated meter.

 

authority

Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is Paragraph 21 of §8 of An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 977); as amended by §2 of the Public Utilities Amendment Act of 1989, D.C. Law 8-47, D.C. Code §43-501 (1990 Repl. Vol.).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 7938, 7948 (November 4, 1988); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 60 DCR 7 (January 4, 2013).