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CFR /  Title 29  /  Part 1981  /  Sec. 1981.101 Definitions.

``Act'' or ``Pipeline Safety Act'' means section 6 of the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002, Public Law No. 107-355, December 17, 2002, 49 U.S.C. 60129.

``Assistant Secretary'' means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health or the person or persons to whom he or she delegates authority under the Act.

``Complainant'' means the employee who filed a complaint under the Act or on whose behalf a complaint was filed.

``Employee'' means an individual presently or formerly working for a person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or subcontractor of such a person, an individual applying to work for a person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or subcontractor of such a person, or an individual whose employment could be affected by a person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or subcontractor of such a person.

``Employer'' means a person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or subcontractor of such a person.

``Gas pipeline facility'' includes a pipeline, a right of way, a facility, a building, or equipment used in transporting gas or treating gas during its transportation.

``Hazardous liquid pipeline facility'' includes a pipeline, a right of way, a facility, a building, or equipment used or intended to be used in transporting hazardous liquid.

``Named person'' means the person alleged to have violated the Act.

``OSHA'' means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.

``Person'' means a corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, an individual, a State, a municipality, and a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative of a person.

``Pipeline facility'' means a gas pipeline facility and a hazardous liquid pipeline facility.

``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Labor or persons to whom authority under the Act has been delegated.