S.C. Code Regs. 103-461 - Acceptable Standards

Unless otherwise specified by the commission, after hearing if requested, the gas system shall use the applicable provisions in the publications listed below as operational references, where applicable, and as standards of accepted good engineering practices.#

a.The edition of the American Standard Code for ''Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems'', ANSI B31.8. as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations.#

b.The latest edition of the American Standards Association Pamphlet, ASA Z21.30, ''Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping in Buildings'', or the latest edition of the National Board of Fire Underwriters publication NFPA No. 54, ''Piping, Appliances and Fittings for City Gas''.#

c.The edition of the NFPA No. 59, ''The Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases at Utility Gas Plants'' as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations.#

d.''Standard Methods of Gas Testing'', Circular No. 48, National Bureau of Standards,#

1961.(The applicable portions of this Circular have been substantially reproduced in the American Meter Company Handbook E-4, covering the testing of positive displacement meters).#

e.''Testing Large Capacity Rotary Gas Meters'', Research Paper No. 1741, National Bureau of Standards Journal of Research, September,#

1946.#

f.''Orifice Metering of Natural Gas'', Report No. 3 of the AGA Gas Measurement Committee.#

g.''Standard Method of Test for Calorific Value of Gaseous Fuels by Water-Flow Calorimeter'', American Society for Testing Materials, Standard D 900-55.#

h.The edition of NFPA No. 59A, ''Storage and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas'' as referenced in the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations.#

HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 14, Issue No. 3, eff March 23, 1990; State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008.#