Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "critical infrastructure facility" means any of the following:
(1) A chemical manufacturing facility.
(2) A refinery.
(3) A steelmaking facility.
(4) An aluminum manufacturing facility.
(5) An electric utility facility, including:
(A) a power plant;
(B) a power generation facility peaker;
(C) an electric transmission facility;
(D) an electric station or substation; or
(E) any other facility used to support the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity.
However, the term does not include electric transmission land or right-of-way that is not completely enclosed, posted, and maintained by the electric utility.
(6) A water intake structure or water treatment facility.
(7) A natural gas utility facility, including:
(A) an age station;
(B) a compressor station;
(C) an odorization facility;
(D) a main line valve;
(E) a natural gas storage facility; or
(F) any other facility used to support the acquisition, transmission, distribution, or storage of natural gas. However, the term does not include gas transmission pipeline property that is not completely enclosed, posted, and maintained by the natural gas utility.
(8) A gasoline, propane, liquid natural gas (LNG), or other fuel terminal or storage facility.
(9) A transportation facility, including, but not limited to, a port, railroad switching yard, or trucking terminal. However, the term does not include a railroad track that is not part of a railroad switching yard.
(10) A pulp or paper manufacturing facility.
(11) A pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
(12) A hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facility.
(13) A crude oil exploration and production equipment or refined products storage and distribution facility including, but not limited to, valve sites, pipeline interconnections, a pump station, a metering station, below or aboveground pipeline or piping, and a truck loading or offloading facility.
(14) A communications services facility, including:
(A) a central office;
(B) a cable head end;
(C) a cable node;
(D) a cellular telephone tower site; and
(E) wires and equipment used to provide communications service to a customer.
(15) A dam that is regulated by the department of natural resources.
(16) A facility:
(A) whose owner or operator is required to submit a risk management plan under the federal Chemical Safety Information, Site Security and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(r)); or
(B) identified and regulated by the United States Department of Homeland Security Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program.
(17) Any aboveground portion of an oil, gas, hazardous liquid, or chemical pipeline, tank, railroad facility, or other storage facility that is completely enclosed, posted, and maintained by the critical infrastructure utility.
(18) A facility that is substantially similar to a facility, structure, or station listed in this subsection.
(b) As used in this chapter, "critical infrastructure utility" means a person that owns or operates, for public use, any plant, equipment, property, franchise, or license for the production, storage, transmission, sale, or delivery of the items listed in subsection (a).
(c) As used in this chapter, "person" has the meaning set forth in IC 35-31.5-2-234(a).
As added by P.L.276-2019, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.183-2025, SEC.5.
