# HAR 6-77-2 Definitions

**Citation:** HAR 6-77-2  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Hawaii Public Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** 1994-09-03  
**Published:** 1994-04-15

"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the State or any person to whom it has delegated authority in the matter concerned. "Distribution line" means a pipeline other than a gathering or transmission line. "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or corrosive. "Gat

## Document text

"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the State or any person to whom it has delegated authority in the matter concerned. "Distribution line" means a pipeline other than a gathering or transmission line. "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or corrosive. "Gathering line" means a pipeline that transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line or main. "High pressure distribution system" means a distribution system in which the gas pressure in the main is higher than the pressure provided to the customer. "Incident" means any of the following events: (1) An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline or of liquefied natural gas or gas from an LNG facility and (A) A death, or personal injury necessitating in-patient hospitalization; or (B) Estimated property damage, including cost of gas lost, of the operator or others, or both, of $50,000 or more. (2) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG facility; (3) An event that is significant, in the judgement of the operator, even though it did not meet the criteria of paragraphs (1) or (2). "Listed specification" means a specification listed in section I of Appendix B of this chapter. "LNG facility" means a liquefied natural gas facility as defined in section 193.2007 of Part 193 of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.). "Low-pressure distribution system" means a distribution system in which the gas pressure in the main is substantially the same as the pressure provided to the customer. "Main" means a distribution line that serves as a common source of supply for more than one service line. "Master meter system" means a pipeline system for distributing gas within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a mobile home park, housing project, or apartment complex, where the operator purchases metered gas from an outside source for resale through a gas distribution pipeline 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. "Maximum actual operating pressure" means the maximum pressure that occurs during normal operations over a period of one year. "Maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP)" means the maximum pressure at which a pipeline may be operated under this chapter. "Municipality" means a city, county, or any other political subdivision of a state. "Offshore" means beyond the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast of the United States that is in direct contact with the open seas and beyond the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters. "Operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of gas. "Person" means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, state, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and including any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof. "Pipe" means any pipe or tubing used in the transportation of gas, including pipe-type holders. "Pipeline" or "pipeline system" means all parts of those physical facilities through which gas moves in transportation, including, but not limited to, pipe, valves, and other appurtenances attached to pipes, compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders, and fabricated assemblies. "Pipeline facility" means new and existing pipelines, rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used in the transportation of gas or in the treatment of gas during the course of transportation. "Service line" means a distribution line that transports gas from a common source of supply to (1) A customer meter or the connection to a customer's piping, whichever is farther downstream; or (2) The connection to a customer's piping if there is no customer meter. A customer meter is the meter that measures the transfer of gas from an operator to a consumer. "SMYS" means specified minimum yield strength is: (1) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with section 6-77-30(b); (2) For steel pipe manufactured in accordance with an unknown or unlisted specification, the yield strength determined in accordance with section 6-77-30(b). "State" means the State of Hawaii. "Transmission line" means a pipeline, other than a gathering line, that: (1) Transports gas from a gathering line or storage facility to a distribution center or storage facility; (2) Operates at a hoop stress of twenty percent or more SMYS; or (3) Transports gas within a storage field. "Transportation of gas" means the gathering, transmission, or distribution of gas by pipeline or the storage of gas, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce. [Eff ] (Auth: HRS '269-6) (Imp: 49 C.F.R. ''191.3, 192.3; October 1, 1990)

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://puc.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HAR-6-77-Transp-of-Gas-03-31-2026.pdf>
- Source ID: `hi-puc-har-6-77`
- SHA-256: `a227d2c6dd4bca8a8a39ef468178693ac8d509af8b4b1424d1c3a9eade77245d`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-12T08:22:24.168Z
- Exported: 2026-08-23T12:10:52.202Z
- Document slug: `hi-har-har-6-77-2`

### Source metadata

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  "chapter": "HAR Chapter 6-77",
  "provisionKind": "section",
  "adoptedOn": "1994-04-15",
  "filedOn": "1994-08-24",
  "exactEffectiveDateAvailableInPublication": true,
  "publicationStatus": "officially-published-superseded-slated-for-repeal",
  "phmsaProgramParticipant": false,
  "stateCertificationRepresented": false,
  "federalInspectionAndEnforcement": [
    "interstate gas",
    "intrastate gas",
    "interstate hazardous liquid",
    "intrastate hazardous liquid"
  ],
  "fixedFederalBaseline": "1990-10-01",
  "editorialModernizationApplied": false,
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "HRS 269-6",
      "referenceType": "state_statute",
      "url": "https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol05_Ch0261-0319/HRS0269/HRS_0269-0006.htm"
    },
    {
      "citation": "HAR 6-77-30",
      "referenceType": "state_regulation",
      "url": "https://puc.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HAR-6-77-Transp-of-Gas-03-31-2026.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "caveats": {
    "exactScope": "Complete substantive text of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission publication of HAR Chapter 6-77: 196 non-reserved numbered sections and Appendices A through D. Four expressly reserved section slots are inventory-only. The PUC's April 2026 page links a 160-page signed scan; an official 178-page text-layer copy from Budget and Finance is used as the higher-quality transcription aid. The publication is an April 15, 1994 adoption, filed August 24 and effective September 3, 1994, based on the October 1, 1990 federal text; it is not a current restatement of federal pipeline standards.",
    "applicability": "Hawaii is not represented as certified, as an agreement state, or as an interstate agent under the PHMSA federal-state pipeline safety program. PHMSA states that its Office of Pipeline Safety inspects and enforces federal pipeline safety regulations for interstate and intrastate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines in Hawaii. Chapter 6-77 may remain relevant as published state utility material, but it must not be used to infer current Hawaii inspection or enforcement authority.",
    "currentness": "The Hawaii PUC still links Chapter 6-77 on its official rules page, updated April 2026. Hawaii's official 2022 periodic rules-review report separately says Chapter 6-77 is to be repealed, was superseded by statute and a federal takeover letter, and cites 2009 Act 25. Because the PUC page does not mark the chapter repealed, this connector preserves the published text with an explicit superseded/slated-for-repeal warning rather than declaring an unproved completed administrative repeal.",
    "incorporation": "The chapter repeatedly identifies the October 1, 1990 edition of 49 CFR Parts 191 and 192 and its appendices as the implemented source. That fixed, obsolete baseline is preserved exactly. Current federal text, later amendments, and current editions of incorporated private standards must not be silently substituted when researching what this publication says.",
    "excludedScope": "This connector excludes HAR Chapter 6-83 one-call damage prevention, utility rates and service standards, statutes as standalone documents, dockets, orders, tariffs, federal text, current federal amendments, and the full text of incorporated private standards. Those materials require separate completeness, currentness, applicability, and rights analysis.",
    "rights": "Official Hawaii and PHMSA artifacts are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public access does not establish unrestricted rights in site presentation, state marks, forms, or incorporated private standards. The connector records citations to private standards but makes no independent rights claim for those works."
  },
  "region": "HI"
}
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