Section 7-12-01-02 - DefinitionsThe following definitions are in addition to those thirty-four definitions listed in ANSI/CGA G-2.1-2014, section 2.
1. "Accident or incident" means an event involving nurse tanks or storage containers and their appurtenances which results in damage to pressure vessels or their appurtenances, or both, requiring repair. Leakage or discharge of more than one hundred pounds [45.36 kilograms] of anhydrous ammonia will be considered an incident.2. "Anhydrous ammonia storage facility" means a bulk anhydrous ammonia storage facility with a storage container capacity exceeding six thousand gallons [22712.47 liters] which is owned or operated by a user or vendor of anhydrous ammonia. Anhydrous ammonia nurse tank storage lots are not included in this definition.3. "Bulk delivery vehicle" means a United States department of transportation inspected and approved cargo tank.4. "DOT specifications" means regulations of the United States department of transportation published in 49 CFR chapter 1.5. "Existing anhydrous ammonia storage facility" means any permanent anhydrous ammonia storage facility constructed before July 1, 1985.6. "Hydrostatic test" means a pressure test of a storage tank using water as a medium to the standards referenced in the national board inspection code.7. "Labeled" means there is attached a label, symbol, or other identifying mark of a nationally recognized testing laboratory which makes periodic inspections of the production of such equipment and whose labeling indicates compliance with nationally recognized standards or tests to determine safe use in a specified manner.8. "National board" means the national board of boiler and pressure vessel inspectors, 1055 Crupper Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43229, whose membership is composed of the various governmental jurisdictions who are charged with the enforcement of the provisions of the American society of mechanical engineers code.9. "New anhydrous ammonia storage facility" means any permanent anhydrous ammonia storage facility constructed after July 1, 1985.10. "Nurse tank" means an implement of husbandry meeting the definition of section 2.2 of the ANSI/CGA G-2.1 standard.11. "Refrigerated storage facility" means an anhydrous ammonia storage facility utilizing tanks for the storage of anhydrous ammonia under refrigerated conditions.12. "Registered pressure vessel" means a permanent storage container identified by a decal having a unique identification number, preceded by the letters "AA".13. "Reinstalled pressure vessel" means a pressure vessel removed from its original setting and reerected at the same location or erected at a new location without change of ownership.14. "Retail and storage facility" means an anhydrous ammonia storage facility selling or intending to sell anhydrous ammonia to the general public.15. "Secondhand pressure vessel" means a pressure vessel of which both the location and the ownership have been changed after primary use.16. "SNT-TC-1A" means the society for nondestructive testing standard for nondestructive testing of pressure vessel welds, material, and the testing of personnel making nondestructive tests.17. "Storage facility" means an anhydrous ammonia storage facility transferring or filling anhydrous ammonia for its own use and not for sale to the general public.18. "Tank car" means a pressure vessel designed to be permanently attached to or forming a part of a railcar structure in compliance with the department of transportation specifications (formerly ICC specifications), and having the approval of the association of American railroads. 19. "Wet fluorescent magnetic particle test" means a nondestructive test of interior tank welds using a magnaflux procedure with fluorescent lighting to detect surface cracks, using SNT-TC-1A standards.N.D. Admin Code 7-12-01-02
Effective July 1, 1996; amended effective June 1, 2005.Amended byAdministrative Rules Supplement 2020-377, July 2020, effective 7/1/2020.General Authority: NDCC 4.1-37-01
Law Implemented: NDCC 4.1-37-01