Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Article 29 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Section 28-29-1600 - Land-spreading; definitions and adoptions
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 28-29-1600
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) As used in K.A.R. 28-29-1600 through K.A.R. 28-29-1608, each of the following terms shall have the meaning specified in this regulation:
(1) "Application" means
land-spreading application. This term shall include the forms provided by the
KCC and all other required submissions.
(2) "Department" means Kansas department of
health and environment.
(3)
"Drilling waste" means used drilling mud and cuttings generated by the drilling
of oil and gas wells or related injection wells that are permitted by the KCC
or by the equivalent permitting authority in the state in which the well is
located. This term shall not include hydraulic fracturing fluids.
(4) "GPS" means global positioning
system.
(5) "Habitable structure"
means any structure that is occupied by humans or maintained in a condition
that allows it to be occupied by humans. This term shall include dwellings,
churches, schools, care facilities, public buildings, office buildings,
commercial buildings, and industrial buildings.
(6) "KCC" means Kansas corporation
commission.
(7) "Land-spreading"
means the disposal of drilling waste by spreading the drilling waste on the
land. This term shall not include the use of drilling waste as a product, as
described in
K.S.A.
65-3409 and amendments thereto, including the
use of drilling waste in the construction and maintenance of roads and
ponds.
(8) "Land-spreading
worksheet" means the land-spreading rate calculation worksheet provided by the
KCC.
(9) "NORM" means naturally
occurring radioactive material.
(10) "NORM level" means the concentration of
residual NORM radium-226 and radium-228 and their progeny as measured in
becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg) or picocuries per gram (pCi/g).
(11) "Operator" means operator, as defined in
K.A.R. 82-3-101, of each well that generated the drilling waste.
(12) "Secretary" means secretary of health
and environment.
(13) "Water-based
drilling mud" means drilling mud that meets both of the following conditions:
(A) The drilling mud consists primarily of
bentonite suspended in water.
(B)
The liquid component of the drilling mud consists of no more than six percent
oil or any oil derivative, including diesel fuel and asphalt blend
oil.
(b) The following documents are hereby adopted by reference:
(1) "Standard test method for particle-size
analysis of soils," D422-63, published October 2007 by ASTM international;
and
(2) section 3.2 on pages 40
through 65 of "soil survey field and laboratory methods manual," soil survey
investigations report no. 51, version 1.0, issued in 2009 by the U.S.
department of agriculture, natural resources conservation service.
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