PART 590 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR TRANSPORTATION OF GAS AND FOR GAS PIPELINE FACILITIES : Sections Listing

TITLE 83: PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER I: ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION
SUBCHAPTER d: GAS UTILITIES
PART 590 MINIMUM SAFETY STANDARDS FOR TRANSPORTATION OF GAS AND FOR GAS PIPELINE FACILITIES

AUTHORITY: Implementing and authorized by Section 3 of the Illinois Gas Pipeline Safety Act [220 ILCS 20/3].

SOURCE: Filed effective November 28, 1977; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 5, p. 761, effective February 3, 1979; amended at 3 Ill. Reg. 11, p. 25, effective March 17, 1979; amended at 4 Ill. Reg. 1, p. 23, effective January 1, 1980; amended at 5 Ill. Reg. 6778, effective June 16, 1981; rules repealed, new rules adopted and codified at 7 Ill. Reg. 12858, effective September 16, 1983; amended at 8 Ill. Reg. 13195, effective July 16, 1984; amended at 10 Ill. Reg. 19405, effective November 15, 1986; amended at 11 Ill. Reg. 11733, effective July 1, 1987; amended at 12 Ill. Reg. 11707, effective July 15, 1988; recodified from 92 Ill. Adm. Code 1800 at 12 Ill. Reg. 12997; amended at 13 Ill. Reg. 16968, effective November 1, 1989; amended at 14 Ill. Reg. 10018, effective June 15, 1990; amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 12291, effective July 15, 1993; amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 11518, effective July 25, 1994; amended at 19 Ill. Reg. 13549, effective October 1, 1995; amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 8906, effective July 1, 1997; amended at 23 Ill. Reg. 11872, effective October 1, 1999; amended at 25 Ill. Reg. 11355, effective September 1, 2001; amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 12385, effective August 1, 2003; amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 11808, effective August 1, 2005; amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 11562, effective August 1, 2007; amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 12224, effective August 15, 2009; amended at 35 Ill. Reg. 14414, effective August 15, 2011; amended at 37 Ill. Reg. 15336, effective September 10, 2013; amended at 39 Ill. Reg. 10381, effective July 14, 2015; amended at 41 Ill. Reg. 10451, effective July 26, 2017; amended at 43 Ill. Reg. 5748, effective May 2, 2019; amended at 44 Ill. Reg. 18926, effective November 20, 2020; amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 10859, effective June 10, 2022.

 

Section 590.10  Standards

 

a)         Incorporations by Reference

 

1)         The Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) adopts the standards contained in 49 CFR 191.1, 191.3, 191.5, 191.7, 191.9, 191.11, 191.13, 191.15, 191.17, 191.22, 191.23, 191.25, 191.29, 192 (excluding Section 192.12), 193 and 199 as of April 29, 2021, as its minimum safety standards for the transportation of gas and for gas pipeline facilities.

 

2)         Reports otherwise required under 49 CFR 191, as incorporated by subsection (a)(1), that pertain only to the downhole portion of an "underground natural gas storage facility", as that term is defined in 49 CFR 192.3 as of April 29, 2021, need not be filed with the Commission.

 

b)         No later amendment or editions are incorporated by this Part.

 

(Source:  Amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 10859, effective June 10, 2022)

 

Section 590.20  Submission of Federal Reports to the Commission

 

Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities shall file with the Commission any report filed with the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration pursuant to 49 CFR 191.11, 191.13, 191.17, and 191.25, except that reports otherwise required to be filed with the Commission under this Section that pertain only to the downhole portion of an "underground natural gas storage facility", as that term is defined in 49 CFR 192.3 as of April 29, 2021, need not be filed with the Commission.

 

(Source:  Amended at 46 Ill. Reg. 10859, effective June 10, 2022)

 

Section 590.30  Submission of Plans, Procedures and Programs

 

a)         Each person who engages in the transportation of gas or who owns or operates pipeline facilities shall make electronically available to the Commission any plans, procedures and programs required by or necessary to implement requirements of Section 590.10(a).

 

b)         Each person identified in subsection (a) shall make all necessary documents electronically available to the Commission by either:

 

1)         requesting an external user account with the Commission; or

 

2)         posting the documents on a technology platform hosted by the person and providing to the Commission password-protected access to the platform.

 

c)         Each person identified in subsection (a) shall make electronically available as set forth in subsection (b) any revisions to the plans, procedures and programs defined in subsection (a).

 

(Source:  Added at 39 Ill. Reg. 10381, effective July 14, 2015)

 

Section 590.40  External User Accounts

 

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)