# 590.40 External User Accounts **Citation:** 83 Ill. Adm. Code 590.40 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** Illinois Commerce Commission **Effective:** 2015-07-14 **Published:** 2015-07-14 a) Each person seeking to make electronic documents available to the Commission in the manner prescribed by Section 590.30(b)(1) must have an active external user account. ## Document text a) Each person seeking to make electronic documents available to the Commission in the manner prescribed by Section 590.30(b)(1) must have an active external user account. b) The application for an external user account is available on the Commission's website or can be obtained by calling or e-mailing the Chief Clerk's office. c) The external user account application requires the following information: 1) First name and last name; 2) Primary mailing address and phone number; 3) Preferred user name; 4) Password; 5) Challenge question and answer; and 6) Notarized signature. d) Applications must be hand delivered or mailed to the Chief Clerk's office. e) The user is responsible for keeping confidential the user ID and password. A user ID must be at least four characters in length and must be unique. Passwords must be at least five characters in length. Periodically, passwords will expire and users will be given advance notice and requested to enter a new password. The challenge question and answer will enable the Commission's information technology staff to recover a password for a user who has forgotten his or her password. f) Because of the unique user ID and password, an electronic document can be traced to a specific individual as if it were signed. This shall serve as an electronic signature on the filings. (Source: Added at 39 Ill. Reg. 10381, effective July 14, 2015) ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `il-jcar-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `711db980f19eb5da91c8102a232e553691577dba8ad355defb2bd4eec54041da` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:53:21.222Z - Exported: 2026-08-24T08:20:02.919Z - Document slug: `il-iac-83-590-40` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-IL", "codeTitle": 83, "part": "590", "corpusScope": "complete-current-parts-590-and-595", "publicationObservedOn": "2026-08-20", "fixedFederalBaseline": "2021-04-29", "laterFederalAmendmentsAutomaticallyIncluded": false, "sourceNote": "(Source: Added at 39 Ill. Reg. 10381, effective July 14, 2015)", "references": [], "caveats": { "exactScope": "This bounded corpus contains every current section in 83 Ill. Adm. Code Parts 590 and 595: four minimum-safety and filing sections and four accident-or-incident reporting sections. JCAR's ordered part indexes are the completeness boundary. Part 596 is fully inventoried as adjacent inspection-disclosure procedure but is not searchable.", "excludedScope": "This is not all Illinois pipeline law. It excludes Part 596 disclosure procedure as searchable law; the Illinois Gas Pipeline Safety Act as standalone documents; utility service, personnel training, infrastructure surcharge, one-call, siting, ratemaking, docket, order, enforcement, form, inspection-record, local, and emergency-guidance material; underground-storage downhole regulation; hazardous-liquid safety; interstate facilities; and reproduced federal or private standards.", "applicability": "Applicability depends on the person, facility, transported commodity, activity, intrastate or interstate status, FERC and PHMSA jurisdiction, waivers, and each provision's terms. ICC describes its program as inspection and enforcement for intrastate natural-gas transmission, distribution, gathering, LNG, and LPG facilities meeting 49 CFR 192.1(5), while excluding interstate gas, hazardous-liquid facilities, and underground natural-gas-storage facilities. PHMSA separately states that Illinois certification covers intrastate gas; PHMSA retains interstate gas and both intrastate and interstate hazardous-liquid inspection and enforcement.", "incorporation": "Section 590.10 fixes incorporation of listed provisions in 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, and 199 as of April 29, 2021, excludes 49 CFR 192.12, and expressly rejects later amendments or editions. Section 595.110 separately fixes its 49 CFR 191.3 incident definition as of January 1, 2011 and likewise rejects later amendments. Section 3 of the Illinois Gas Pipeline Safety Act directs the Commission to maintain rules at least as inclusive, stringent, and compatible with federal minimum standards from time to time; this connector records the current promulgated rule text and does not resolve that statutory interaction, reproduce incorporated federal text, or substitute current eCFR text.", "publication": "JCAR's English administrative-code publication identifies itself as official and authoritative and is controlling for this corpus. Retrieval time is publication observation, not a legal event. The ICC Part 590 page labels itself informational only and currently summarizes an older July 1, 2018 federal baseline, while current JCAR text uses April 29, 2021; the connector preserves and gates that publication lag. The ILCS database warns that updates are ongoing, so the statute artifact supports scope and authority but is not treated as a certified historical snapshot.", "rights": "Official Illinois and federal government pages are retained with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. ILGA displays an all-rights-reserved notice. Public access does not resolve rights in site presentation, seals, agency marks, forms, linked works, incorporated federal text, or private standards; downstream redistribution requires separate review." }, "region": "IL" } ```