15 U.S.C. § 717a : US Code - Section 717A: Definitions

Search 15 U.S.C. § 717a : US Code - Section 717A: Definitions

When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires -

(1) "Person" includes an individual or a corporation.
(2) "Corporation" includes any corporation, joint-stock
company, partnership, association, business trust, organized
group of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or
receivers, trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall
not include municipalities as hereinafter defined.
(3) "Municipality" means a city, county, or other political
subdivision or agency of a State.
(4) "State" means a State admitted to the Union, the District
of Columbia, and any organized Territory of the United States.
(5) "Natural gas" means either natural gas unmixed, or any
mixture of natural and artificial gas.
(6) "Natural-gas company" means a person engaged in the
transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale
in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
(7) "Interstate commerce" means commerce between any point in a
State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the
same State but through any place outside thereof, but only
insofar as such commerce takes place within the United States.
(8) "State commission" means the regulatory body of the State
or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges
for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or
municipality.
(9) "Commission" and "Commissioner" means the Federal Power
Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
(10) "Vehicular natural gas" means natural gas that is
ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.
(11) "LNG terminal" includes all natural gas facilities located
onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload,
load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural gas
that is imported to the United States from a foreign country,
exported to a foreign country from the United States, or
transported in interstate commerce by waterborne vessel, but does
not include -
(A) waterborne vessels used to deliver natural gas to or from
any such facility; or
(B) any pipeline or storage facility subject to the
jurisdiction of the Commission under section 717f of this
title.