Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XI - Office of Conservation-Pipeline Division › Subpart 2 - Underwater Obstructions › Chapter 15 - General › Section XI-1501 - Definitions (Formerly section 301)

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The words
				  defined herein shall have the following meanings when used in these rules. All
				  other words so used and not defined shall have their usual meanings (except
				  insofar as specifically defined in Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of
				  1950) unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
Assistant Secretary
-the assistant
					 secretary of the Office of Conservation within the Department of Natural
					 Resources or his authorized representatives.
Associated Material
-equipment, machinery
					 or other material typically used in marine oil and gas production,
					 transportation and/or transmission activities, including without limitation
					 sunken vessels, boats and barges, but not including any associated structure as
					 defined herein.
Associated Structure
-any artificial
					 structure that is, or previously was, integrally attached to a pipeline or to a
					 field transmission, flow or gathering line, including without limitation,
					 fittings, tie-overs, cross-overs, appliances and equipment.
Coastal Waters
-bays, lakes, inlets,
					 estuaries, rivers, bayous, and other bodies of water within the boundaries of
					 the coastal zone that have measurable seawater content under normal weather
					 conditions over a period of years.
Conservation
-the Office of Conservation
					 within the Department of Natural Resources.
Department
-the Department of Natural
					 Resources.
Fund
-the Underwater Obstruction Removal
					 Fund.
Lessee
-for the purpose of this regulation,
					 the lessee shall be considered the actual lessee or his assignees, the legal
					 owner, or the operator at the time of abandonment.
Pipeline
-all segments of pipe other than
					 any field transmission, flow or gathering line with the exception of site
					 clearance. For the purpose of site clearance, a pipeline shall be considered
					 any size or type of pipeline (including flowlines).
Platform
-any structure that has
					 significant facilities supporting exploration or production operations,
					 including but not limited to pumping, injection, compression, transmission,
					 quartering, or primary, secondary or tertiary oil, gas, or water
					 treatment.
Program
-the Underwater Obstruction Removal
					 Program.
Secretary
-the Secretary of the Department
					 of Natural Resources or his authorized representative.
Single or Multi-well Caisson or
					 Templet
-any structure that has no significant facilities supporting
					 exploration or production operations. Pipes, valves, manifolding, and vent
					 stacks are not considered a significant facility.
State Waterbottoms
-the state-owned lands
					 lying beneath the territorial sea, arms of the sea and all waterbottoms that
					 are navigable in fact within the Louisiana coastal zone as defined in
					 R.S.
					 49:213.3(4).
Territorial Seas
-the belt of the seas
					 measured from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast
					 that is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward
					 limit of coastal waters, and extending 3 miles seaward as set by decree of the
					 United States Supreme Court in 1975 as being the 3-mile limit and all
					 state-owned waterbottoms.
Underwater Obstruction
-any obstacle,
					 whether natural or manmade, which impedes normal navigation and commercial
					 fishing on the navigable waters of the state.
AUTHORITY
					 NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4(D)-4(H) and
					 30:101.4.