(a) Every gas utility company must adopt and maintain a natural gas emergency response plan. Every new gas utility company shall adopt its plan within 30
days after becoming a gas utility company. Every such company shall submit a natural gas emergency response plan to the Executive Director, Superintendent of Police, and Fire Commissioner, no later than 24 hours of the time the plan is adopted. The company shall notify those officials, within 24 hours, of any significant revisions to the plan and of the rationale for the revisions. Such revisions shall be submitted by the company as soon as practicable and shall be reviewed and approved by the Executive Director in accordance with Section 7-59-030.
(b) The natural gas emergency response plan shall include, at a minimum, information detailing: (1) the circumstances that would require the implementation of the plan; (2) an identification and complete description of the levels, stages or steps of the plan; (3) the potential impact of implementation of the plan on public health and safety and on the duties of the City's public health and safety agencies; (4) the actions the company has taken to mitigate potential health or safety problems; (5) and the identification of customers and facilities for which a service interruption would pose increased risk to public health and safety, including but not limited to, apartment buildings, nursing homes, schools, day-care centers, persons in critical health or life-support environments.
(c) The natural gas emergency response plan shall include general system operations information, including, but not limited to: (1) an overview of the gas distribution system, including a description of each of the major components of a gas distribution system that is necessary for proper operation of the system; (2) an electronically mapped version of the utility's system infrastructure, including mains and other gas distribution equipment serving two or more end-user gas consumers; (3) descriptions of the types of emergencies that are or can be experienced by each of the major components of a gas distribution system as described in (1) above; (4) descriptions of how each type of emergency is remedied by the company; and (5) descriptions of the types and frequency of emergencies experienced on the company's system during the past year. The information required by this paragraph shall be updated on an annual basis and provided to the Executive Director by September 1 of each year.
(Added Coun. J. 5-1-02, p. 84053, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 3-31-04, p. 20916, § 3.30; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. III, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 11-21-17, p. 61755, Art. III, § 6)