Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-45a-1

Current through Register Vol. 44, No. 2, January 9, 2025

Section 28-45a-1 - Definitions

(a) "Applicant" means the operator and the owner requesting a permit as specified in this article of regulations. If the operator and the owner are not the same person, the owner and the operator shall jointly submit an application for a permit.

(b) "Base gas" and "cushion gas" mean the volume of gas required as permanent storage inventory to maintain adequate storage cavern pressure for meeting minimum gas deliverability demands throughout the withdrawal season or for structural integrity of the storage cavern.

(c) "Brine" means saline water with a sodium chloride concentration equal to or greater than 90 percent.

(d) "Brine pond" means the excavated or diked structure used for the surface containment of brine used in the creation, maintenance, or operation of an underground storage well.

(e) "Department" means the Kansas department of health and environment.

(f) "Director" means the director of the division of environment of the department of health and environment.

(g) "Draft permit" means a document that is pending approval by the secretary to be issued as a permit.

(h) "In existence" and "existing," when used to describe an underground natural gas storage well, mean a natural gas storage well that has been authorized or permitted by the Kansas department of health and environment before April 1, 2003.

(i) "Kansas board of technical professions" means the state board responsible for licensing persons to practice engineering, geology, or land surveying in Kansas.

(j) "Licensed geologist" means a geologist licensed to practice geology in Kansas by the Kansas board of technical professions.

(k) "Licensed professional engineer" means a professional engineer licensed to practice engineering in Kansas by the Kansas board of technical professions.

(l) "Licensed professional land surveyor" means a professional land surveyor licensed to practice land surveying in Kansas by the Kansas board of technical professions.

(m) "Liner" means the casing normally installed within the production casing.

(n) "Liquified petroleum gas" and "LPG" mean by-products or derivatives of oil and gas, including propane, butane, isobutane, and ethane, maintained in a liquid state under pressure.

(o) "Maximum allowable operating pressure" means the maximum pressure authorized by the department and measured at the wellhead.

(p) "Maximum operating pressure" means the maximum pressure recorded during a 24-hour period and measured at the product side of the wellhead.

(q) "Municipal population center" means an incorporated city.

(r) "Natural gas" means the gaseous form of hydrocarbon consisting primarily of methane.

(s) "Operator" means the person recognized by the secretary as being responsible for the physical operation of an underground natural gas storage facility.

(t) "Owner" means the person owning all or part of any underground natural gas storage facility.

(u) "Permit" means an authorization, license, or equivalent control document issued by the secretary to the operator and owner.

(v) "Permittee," "permit holder," and "holder of a permit" mean the owner and the operator issued a permit, as defined in this regulation, by the secretary.

(w) "Person" means any individual, company, corporation, institution, partnership, municipality, township, or federal agency.

(x) "Product" means natural gas.

(y) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department of health and environment.

(z) "Solutioning" means the process of injecting fluid into a well to dissolve salt or any other readily soluble rock or mineral.

(aa) "Supervisory control and data acquisition" means an automated surveillance system in which monitoring and control of storage activities are accomplished at a central or remote location.

(bb) "Underground natural gas storage cavern" means a cavern formed by solutioning in bedded salt in which natural gas is stored.

(cc) "Underground natural gas storage facility" means the acreage associated with the storage field with facility boundaries approved by the secretary. This term shall include the wells, wellbore tubular goods, wellhead, and any related equipment, including any appurtenances associated with the well field.

(dd) "Underground natural gas storage well" means a well used for the injection or withdrawal of natural gas into or out of an underground natural gas storage cavern.

(ee) "Usable water formation" means an aquifer or any portion of the aquifer that meets any of the following criteria:

(1) Supplies any public water system;

(2) contains a supply of groundwater that is sufficient to supply a public water system and that currently supplies drinking water for human consumption; or

(3) contains fewer than 10,000 mg/L total dissolved solids and is not an exempted aquifer.

(ff) "Variance" means the secretary's written approval authorizing an alternative action to the requirements of these regulations or the standards adopted by these regulations and incorporated into the permit.

(gg) "Working gas" means the gas placed in the storage cavern above the base gas.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-45a-1

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 65-171d; effective, T-28-4-1-03, April 1, 2003; effective Aug. 8, 2003.