La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XI-101

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XI-101 - Definitions

A. The words and terms defined herein shall have the following meanings when used in these regulations. All other words and terms so used and not herein defined shall have their usual meanings unless specially defined in Chapter 7 of Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Act or Chapter - the Natural Resources and Energy Act of 1973, being Act 16 of the Extraordinary Session of 1973, now Chapter 7 of Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended after 1950.

Commissioner - the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana who shall be the commissioner of conservation within the Department of Natural Resources.

Excess Capacity of Intrastate Gas Pipelines - that part of the capability of a pipeline system to transport intrastate natural gas from point to point along its line in excess of the immediate needs of the pipeline company or its subsidiaries or its parent or the subsidiary companies of its parents. In determining excess capacity, the commissioner may disregard existing contracts for the transportation or sale of intrastate natural gas to the extent they are not then being performed or fulfilled. Excess capacity of intrastate pipelines may also be created as a result of intrastate natural gas delivery curtailment orders of the commissioner in the implementation of the allocation, rationing and conservation measures governing the endues of intrastate natural gas provided for in the Act.

Facility - any component of a pipeline or pipeline system except:

a.auxiliary installations - installations which are merely auxiliary or appurtenant to an existing transmission pipeline system and which are installed only for the purpose of obtaining more efficient or more economical operation of authorized transmission facilities, such as: gas cleaning and treating equipment; heaters; cooling and dehydration equipment; residual refining equipment; water pumping treating and cooling production compressors; measurement equipment; pressure or flow regulation or control equipment; electrical and communication equipment and buildings;

b.replacement of facilities - facilities which constitute the replacement of existing facilities which have or will soon become physically deteriorated or obsolete to the extent that replacement is deemed advisable, provided, that such replacement will not result in a reduction or abandonment of service rendered by means of such facilities. Provided further, that such replacement shall have substantially equivalent designed delivery capacity as the particular facilities being replaced;

c.new delivery points - metering and regulating installations and branch lines necessary to the establishment of new delivery points required for the delivery of gas, coal or lignite to an existing customer;

d.taps - taps on existing transporter pipelines which are installed solely for the purpose of enabling a purchaser or transporter to take delivery of gas, coal, or lignite from a producer.

Gas - any gas derived from or composed of hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800 BTUs per standard cubic foot.

Interested Parties - those persons who have a direct interest in the subject matter for which an application is filed as such persons are specified in these regulations.

Intrastate Coal Slurry Pipeline - a pipeline located and operated in the state of Louisiana for the transportation of coal or lignite from within or outside state limits or any mixture of substances which includes coal or lignite, in any form, but does not include producer owned producing and gathering lines and facilities located within the mine limits associated and used in connection therewith, provided such lines and facilities are not used for hire in the transportation of coal or lignite for others.

Intrastate Coal Slurry Transporter - any person owning or operating an intrastate coal slurry pipeline.

Intrastate Natural Gas- gas produced, transported, and utilized wholly within the State of Louisiana, through the use of intrastate pipelines or of interstate pipelines where such use of interstate pipelines is or may hereafter be exempt from the control of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Natural Gas Act or rules and regulations promulgated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission thereunder, and gas, wherever produced, which is or may be transported into this state and delivered to an intrastate pipeline in this state to be used or consumed wholly within this state.

Intrastate Natural Gas Pipeline - a pipeline which is located and operated wholly within the state of Louisiana, which does not extend beyond the boundaries of the state of Louisiana, and which is not merely a local branch of an interstate pipeline system but does not include producer owned producing and gathering lines and facilities associated and used in connection therewith, provided such lines and facilities are not used for hire in the transportation of natural gas for others, except as provided in R.S. 30:607.

Intrastate Natural Gas Transporter - any person owning or operating an intrastate natural gas pipeline.

Natural Gas Company - a person engaged in the sale of intrastate natural gas beyond the wellhead.

Person - any natural person, corporation, political subdivision, association, partnership, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind.

Rules of Procedure - the rules of procedure promulgated by the commissioner and which are stated to be applicable to the Act.

Sale of Intrastate Natural Gas at the Wellhead - the first transfer for value by the producer of such gas whether at the wellhead, a central gathering facility, or at the tailgate of a gas processing plant.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XI-101

Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 4:76 (March 1978), amended LR 7:80 (March 1981), LR 8:15 (January 1982), repromulgated LR 38:1414 (June 2012), Amended LR 491096 (6/1/2023).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:501-599, 601-606.