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353.800 Definitions for KRS 353.800 to 353.812.
As used in KRS 353.800 to 353.812, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Cabinet" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet;
(2) "Carbon dioxide" means anthropogenic carbon dioxide of sufficient purity and
quality as to not compromise the safety and efficiency of the reservoir to
securely contain it;
(3) "Carbon injection well" means a well drilled or converted and operated for the
purpose of injecting carbon dioxide into subsurface rock formations for geologic
storage;
(4) "Division" means the Division of Oil and Gas within the Department for Natural
Resources;
(5) "Geologic storage" means permanent or temporary underground storage of
carbon dioxide in a reservoir;
(6) "Permeability" means a measure of the capacity of reservoir strata to accept
and transmit fluids, including carbon dioxide;
(7) "Pore space" means the voids in subsurface reservoir strata suitable to contain
stored carbon dioxide;
(8) "Pore space owner" means the surface owner unless the pore space has been
severed from the surface estate, in which case the pore space owner shall
include all persons reasonably known to own an interest in the pore space;
(9) "Reservoir" means a subsurface volume of rock with sufficient porosity and
permeability to be suitable for the injection and storage of carbon dioxide, and
that has adequate seals to prevent leakage of carbon dioxide;
(10) "Seal" means a subsurface stratum or formation sufficiently impermeable to
prevent vertical or lateral movement of injected carbon dioxide out of the
storage reservoir;
(11) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet;
(12) "Storage facility" means the underground reservoir, underground equipment,
and surface buildings and equipment utilized in the storage operation,
excluding pipelines used to transport the carbon dioxide to the storage and
injection site. The reservoir component of the storage facility shall include a
necessary and reasonable areal buffer and subsurface monitoring zones as
required by the permit issued by the USEPA for the demonstration carbon
injection well;
(13) "Storage operator" means any person holding a permit from the USEPA to
operate a storage facility; and
(14) "USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Effective:June 8, 2011
History: Created 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1, effective June 8, 2011.
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