Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Article 46 - UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL REGULATIONS
Section 28-46-2a - Definitions
Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 28-46-2a
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 52, December 26, 2024
(a) The following federal regulations, as in effect on July 1, 2008, are hereby adopted by reference, except as specified:
(1)
40 CFR
124.2, except for the following terms and
their definitions:
(A)
"Application";
(B)
"director";
(C) "draft
permit";
(D) "eligible Indian
tribe";
(E) "environmental appeals
board";
(F) "facility or
activity";
(G) "Indian tribe";
(H) "major facility";
(I) "owner or operator";
(J) "permit";
(K) "regional administrator";
(L) "SDWA"; and
(M) "state";
(2)
40 CFR
144.3, except for the following terms and
their definitions:
(A)
"Application";
(B) "approved state
program";
(C) "appropriate act and
regulations";
(D)
"director";
(E) "draft
permit";
(F) "eligible Indian
tribe";
(G) "Indian tribe";
(H) "state";
(I) "total dissolved solids"; and
(J) "well";
(3)
40 CFR
144.61;
(4)
40 CFR
146.3, except for the following terms and
their definitions:
(A)
"Application";
(B)
"director";
(C) "exempted
aquifer";
(D) "facility or
activity";
(E) "Indian
tribe";
(F) "owner or
operator";
(G) "permit";
(H) "SDWA";
(I) "site"; and
(J) "well"; and
(5)
40 CFR
146.61(b), except for the
term "cone of influence" and its definition.
(b) In addition to the definitions adopted in subsection (a), the following definitions shall apply in this article:
(1) "Application" means the standard
departmental form or forms required for applying for a permit, including any
additions, revisions, and modifications to the forms.
(2) "Authorized by rule," when used to
describe an injection well, means that the well meets all of the following
conditions:
(A) The well is a class V
injection well.
(B) The well is in
compliance with this article.
(C)
The well is not prohibited, as specified in K.A.R. 28-46-26a .
(D) The well is not required by the secretary
to have a permit.
(3)
"Cone of impression" means the mound in the po-tentiometric surface of the
receiving formation in the vicinity of the injection well.
(4) "Cone of influence" means the area around
a well within which increased injection pressures caused by injection into the
well would be sufficient to drive fluids into an underground source of drinking
water (USDW).
(5) "Department"
means the Kansas department of health and environment.
(6) "Director" means director of the division
of environment of the Kansas department of health and environment.
(7) "Draft permit" means a document prepared
by the department after receiving a complete application or making a tentative
decision that an existing permit shall be modified and reissued, indicating the
secretary's tentative decision to either issue a permit or deny a permit. A
draft permit is not required for a minor modification of an existing
permit.
(8) "Existing salt solution
mining well" means a well authorized and permitted by the secretary before the
effective date of these regulations.
(9) "Fracture pressure" means the wellhead
pressure that could cause vertical or horizontal fracturing of rock along a
well bore.
(10) "Gallery" means a
series of two or more salt solution mining wells that are artificially
connected within the salt horizon and are produced as a system with one or more
wells designated for withdrawal of solutioned salt.
(11) "Injection well facility" and "facility"
mean the acreage associated with the injection field and with facility
boundaries approved by the secretary. These terms shall include the injection
wells, wellhead, and any related equipment, including any appurtenances
associated with the well field.
(12) "Maximum allowable injection pressure"
means the maximum wellhead pressure not to be exceeded as a permit
condition.
(13) "Motor vehicle
waste disposal well" and "MV-WDW" mean a disposal well that received, receives,
or has the potential to receive fluids from vehicular repair or maintenance
activities.
(14) "Notice of intent
to deny" means a draft permit indicating the secretary's tentative decision to
deny a permit.
(15) "Production
casing," when used for a class III well, means the casing inside the surface
casing of a well that extends into the salt formation.
(16) "Salt roof" means a distance, determined
in feet, from the highest point of a salt solution mining cavern to the top of
the salt formation. This distance shall be approved by the secretary.
(17) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
Kansas department of health and environment or the secretary's authorized
representative.
(18)
"Transportation artery" means any highway, county road, township road, private
road, or railroad, excluding any existing right-of-way, not owned or leased by
the permittee.
(19) "Well" means
any of the following:
(A) A bored, drilled, or
driven shaft whose depth is greater than the largest surface
dimension;
(B) a dug hole whose
depth is greater than the largest surface dimension;
(C) a sinkhole modified to receive fluids;
or
(D) a subsurface fluid
distribution system.
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