Section 20.03.15.010 - DEFINITIONS01.Associated By-Products or By-Product:a. Any mineral or minerals (exclusive of oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium) that are found in solution or developed in association with geothermal resources; orb. Demineralized or mineralized water.02.Board. The Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners or its designee.03.Casual Exploration. Casual exploration means entry and/or exploration that does not appreciably disturb or damage the land or resources thereon. Casual exploration includes, but is not limited to, geochemical and/or geophysical exploration techniques, sampling with hand tools, and entry using wheeled vehicles for transportation to conduct such exploration.04.Completion. A well is considered to be completed thirty (30) days after drilling operations have ceased and the drill rig is removed from the premises or thirty (30) days after the initial production or injection test has been completed, whichever occurs last.05.Department. The Idaho Department of Lands or its designee.06.Director. The director of the Idaho Department of Lands or his designee.07.Direct Use. The use of geothermal resources for direct applications, including, but not limited to, road surface heating, resorts, hot spring bathing and spas, space heating of buildings, recreation, greenhouse warming, aquaculture, or industrial applications where geothermal heat is used in place of other energy inputs.08.Electrical Generation. The use of geothermal resources to either directly generate electricity or to heat a secondary fluid and use it to generate electricity.09.Field. A geographic area overlying a geothermal system with one (1) or more geothermal reservoirs or pool, including any porous, permeable geologic layer, that may be formed along one (1) fault or fracture, or a series of connected faults or fractures.10.Geothermal Resources. The natural heat energy of the earth, the energy, in whatever form, that may be found in any position and at any depth below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from, or created by, or that may be extracted from such natural heat, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained from the material medium of any geothermal resource. When used without restriction, it includes associated by-products.11.Lease. A lease covering the geothermal resources and associated by-products in state lands.12.Lessee. The person to whom a geothermal lease has been issued and his successor in interest or assignee. It also means any agent of the Lessee or an operator holding authority by or through the Lessee.13.Market Value. The most probable price at a specified date, in cash, or on terms reasonably equivalent to cash, for which the property or commodity should bring in a competitive and open market under all conditions requisite to a fair sale, the buyer and seller each acting prudently and knowledgeably, and assuming the price is not affected by undue stimulus.14.Motorized Earth-Moving Equipment. Backhoes, bulldozers, front-loaders, trenchers, core drills, drill rigs, power augers, and other similar equipment.15.Navigable Water Courses. The state owned beds of active lakes, rivers and streams that do not include formerly submerged lands where the state retains ownership.16.Operator. The person having control or management of operations on the leased lands or a portion thereof. The operator may be the Lessee, designated operator, or agent of the Lessee, or holder of rights under an approved operating agreement.17.Overriding Royalty. An interest in the geothermal resource produced at the surface free of any cost of production. It is a royalty in addition to the royalty reserved to the state.18.Person. Any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, or other entity recognized and authorized to do business in Idaho, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or other representatives of any kind, and includes any government or any political subdivision of any agency thereof. The masculine gender, in referring to a person, includes the feminine and the neuter genders.19.Record Title. The publicly recorded lease that is the evidence of right that a person has to the possession of the leased property.20.Reservoir or Pool. A porous, permeable geologic layer containing geothermal resources.21.Shut In. To close the valves at the wellhead so that the well stops flowing or producing. Also describes a well on which the valves have been closed.22.State Lands. Without limitation, lands in which the title to the mineral rights are owned by the state of Idaho and are under the jurisdiction and control of the Board or under the jurisdiction and control of any other state body or agency, having been obtained from any source and by any means whatsoever, including the beds of navigable waters of the state of Idaho.23.Waste. Any physical loss of geothermal resources including, but not limited to: a. Underground loss of geothermal resources resulting from inefficient, excessive, or improper use, or dissipation of geothermal energy, or of any geothermal resource pool, reservoir, or other source; or the locating, spacing, constructing, equipping, operating, or producing of any well in a manner that results, or tends to result in, reducing the quantity of geothermal energy to be recovered from any geothermal area in the state;b. The inefficient above-ground transporting and storage of geothermal energy; and the locating, spacing, equipping, operating, or producing of any well or injection well in a manner causing or tending to cause unnecessary or excessive surface loss or destruction of geothermal energy; the escape into the open air from a well of steam or hot water in excess of what is reasonably necessary in the efficient development or production of a well.Idaho Admin. Code r. 20.03.15.010