DEFINITIONS.

Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to sections 299J.01 to 299J.17.#

Subd. 2.Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public safety.#

Subd. 3.Director. "Director" means the director of the Office of Pipeline Safety.#

Subd. 4.Emergency. "Emergency" means a condition that poses a clear and immediate danger to life or health or that threatens a significant loss of property.#

Subd. 5.Emergency release. "Emergency release" means a release that poses a clear and immediate danger to life or health or that threatens a significant loss of property.#

Subd. 6.Emergency responder. "Emergency responder" means a fire department or company, a law enforcement official or office, an ambulance or other emergency rescue service, or the Division of Emergency Management created by section 12.04, subdivision 1.#

Subd. 7.Gas. "Gas" has the meaning given it in Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, section 192.3.#

Subd. 8.Hazardous liquid. "Hazardous liquid" means "hazardous liquid" and "highly volatile liquid" as defined in Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, section 195.2.#

Subd. 8a.LNG; liquefied natural gas. "LNG" or "liquefied natural gas" means natural gas or synthetic gas having as its major constituent methane that has been changed to a liquid or semisolid.#

Subd. 8b.LNG facility. "LNG facility" means a pipeline facility that is used for liquefying or solidifying natural gas or synthetic gas or transferring, storing, or vaporizing liquefied natural gas.#

Subd. 9.Local governmental unit. "Local governmental unit" means a county, town, or statutory or home rule charter city.#

Subd. 10.Person. "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or other business entity or a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of them.#

Subd. 11.Pipeline. "Pipeline" means: (1) pipe with a nominal diameter of six inches or more, located in the state, that is used to transport hazardous liquids, but does not include pipe used to transport a hazardous liquid by gravity, and pipe used to transport or store a hazardous liquid within a refining, storage, or manufacturing facility; or (2) pipe operated at a pressure of more than 275 pounds per square inch that carries gas.#

Subd. 12.Pipeline operator. "Pipeline operator" means a person who owns or operates a pipeline or LNG facility.#

Subd. 13.Release. "Release" means a spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, leaching, dumping, disposing, flowing, or any other uncontrolled escape of a hazardous liquid or gas from a pipeline or gas from a LNG facility.#

History1987 c 71 s 2; 1987 c 353 s 23; 1992 c 386 s 1-4#