Section 15-2399. DEFINITIONS

2399.1The terms used in this chapter shall have the meaning ascribed to the definitions appearing in 49 C.F.R. §§ 190.3, 191.3, 192.3, and 199.3 except as otherwise defined in this chapter

2399.2When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:

ASTM – formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials, now ASTM International.

British thermal unit (BTU) - the quantity of heat necessary to raise one pound (1 lb.) of water one degree Fahrenheit (1° F).

Business Districts - the principal business areas in an urban community, including where:

(a) The public regularly congregates in buildings used for business, health, educational or religious activities;

(b) The majority of buildings on either side of the street are used for business, health, or religious activities;

(c) The gas facilities are under continuous paving that extends from the centerline of the thoroughfare to the building wall or from the main to the building wall; and

(d) Any other location or site that in the gas corporation’s judgment should be designated as a business district.

 

Cfh - cubic feet per hour.

Conversion Factor - the conversion factor is the factor which converts the British Thermal Units in one hundred cubic feet (100 ft.3) of gas into therms.

Gas Corporation - every corporation, association, joint-stock corporation or association, partnership, or person manufacturing, making, distributing, or selling gas for light, heat or power, or for any public use in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court, who own, operate, control, or manage any gas plant except where the gas is made or produced and distributed by the maker on or through private property solely for its own use or the use of its tenants and not for sale to or for the use of others.

Gas Plant - buildings, easements, real estate, mains, pipes, conduits, service pipes, services, pipe galleries, meters, boilers, water-gas sets, retorts, fixtures, condensers, scrubbers, purifiers, holders, materials, apparatus, personal property, and franchises, and property of every kind used in the conduct of the business operated, owned, controlled, used or to be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the manufacture, distribution, sale, or furnishing of gas (natural or manufactured) for light, heat, or power.

Heating Value - the "total heating value," as this term is used in the gas industry and as it is defined in the Bureau of Standards Circular No. 405 - STANDARDS FOR GAS SERVICE.

Integrity Management Program – an overall approach by the operator to ensure the integrity of its gas distribution system.

Intrastate - within the District of Columbia.

Master Meter System - a pipeline system for distributing gas within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a housing project, apartment complex, or mobile home park, where the operator purchases metered gas from an outside source for resale through a gas pipeline distribution 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.

Places of Public Assembly - a building or portions of a building used for gathering together of one hundred (100) or more persons, the capacity being designated by the Fire Department, for common purposes of deliberation, worship, or services, such as, but not limited to, churches, schools, hospitals, halls, theaters, and municipal facilities. 

PSIG - pounds per square inch gauge.

Proof of Meter - the ratio expressed in percent of the volume of gas passed through the meter to the volume registered by the meter under standard testing conditions.

Referee Test - a test conducted by a gas corporation or small gas operator and witnessed by a representative of the Commission upon a customer’s written application and for a fee.

Request Test - a test conducted by a gas corporation or small gas operator upon a customer’s request and at no charge, provided the meter has not been tested within twelve (12) months prior to such a request.

Small Gas Operator - one who operates a master meter system with fewer than one thousand five hundred (1,500) services and who has two (2) additional characteristics:

(a) Distributes gas by using underground or exterior piping serving multiple buildings in the District of Columbia; and

(b) Resells gas (metered or unmetered) to ultimate gas consumers for use in consumers' appliances.

Volume of Gas - the volumes of gas specified in this chapter for testing purposes shall be understood to be at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60° F) and under a pressure of fourteen and seventy-four hundreds (14.74) pounds per square inch absolute (PSIA).

 

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 33 DCR 6625, 6631 (October 24, 1986); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 7938, 7953 (November 4, 1988); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 38 DCR 2381, 2382 (April 26, 1991); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 60 DCR 7 (January 4, 2013).