Definitions

The terms used throughout this chapter have the same meaning as in North Dakota Century Code chapters 38-08 and 38-19 except: 1. "Certified or registered mail" means any form of service by the United States postal service, federal express, Pitney Bowes, and any other commercial, nationwide delivery service that provides the mailer with a document showing the date of delivery or refusal to accept delivery. 2. "Contaminant" means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. 3. "Deep geothermal well" means any well drilled into rocks older than the Greenhorn Formation which encounters hot water or hot brines to develop or produce energy from deep-well geothermal resources. 4. "Facility" includes all surface structures (buildings, slabs or pads, pipelines, etc.) for the production of energy from deep-well geothermal resources as well as all subsurface structures, including deep geothermal and injection wells. 5. "Injection well" means a well into which fluids resulting from the development or production of energy from deep-well geothermal resources are being injected. 6. "Occupied dwelling" or "permanently occupied dwelling" means a residence that is lived in by a person at least six months throughout a calendar year. 8. "Pool" means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of geothermal energy; each zone of a structure that is completely separated from any other zone in the same structure is a pool, as that term is used in this chapter. 9. "Underground source of drinking water" means an aquifer or its portion that supplies drinking water for human consumption or in which the ground water contains fewer than ten thousand milligrams per liter total dissolved solids. 10. "Well" means a bored, drilled or driven shaft, or a dug hole, whose depth is greater than the largest surface dimension.