Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 45a - UNDERGROUND NATURAL GAS STORAGE WELLS IN BEDDED SALT › Section 28-45a-1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
(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.