In 11 AAC 84.1000 - 11 AAC 84.1099,

1. (1) "assignment" means a transfer of all or part of a licensee's interests in a carbon storage exploration license or a lessee's interest in a carbon storage lease;
2. (2) "carbon dioxide" has the meaning given in AS 41.06.210;
3. (3) "carbon storage" means the long-term geologic storage of carbon dioxide in a carbon storage facility permitted under AS 41.06.120 or by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Class VI well; in this paragraph, "Class VI well" has the meaning given in 40 C.F.R. 144(6)(f) or 40 C.F.R. 146.5(f);
4. (4) "change of control" means a merger, consolidation, conversion, sale of controlling interest, or sale of substantially all assets of an entity;
5. (5) "commissioner" means the commissioner of natural resources;
6. (6) "department" means the department of natural resources;
7. (7) "geologic data" means information gathered from surface geologic measurements and well and core hole information that is collected in a form suitable for storage, processing, or interpretation; "geologic data" includes mud logs; electric logs; density logs; sonic logs; neutron logs; gamma ray logs; interpretative logs, image logs, dipmeter logs; directional surveys; core (conventional and sidewall) and outcrop sample descriptions and measurements; photos and analyses, including lithologic, porosity and permeability, petrographic, geochemical, thermal maturation, fission track, radiometric dating, fluid inclusion, palynologic, paleontologic, ichnologic, and sedimentologic data and interpretations; sample descriptions; data and analyses from cuttings, including lithologic and petrographic, descriptive and interpreted palynologic and paleontologic, geochemical, and thermal maturation indicators; fluid analysis; drillstem, formation, and other flow tests; and periodic drilling and operating reports; "geologic data" also includes maps, cross sections, fence diagrams and other interpretive displays produced during the term of a license or subsequent lease;
8. (8) "geophysical data" means measurements and information obtained from electrical surveys, gravity surveys, magnetic surveys, seismic reflection surveys, seismic refraction surveys, and remote sensing; the measurements or information may be in the form of raw field data or data that are the result of processing in a form suitable for storage, processing, or interpretation; "geophysical data" includes geotechnical data;
9. (9) "pore space" has the meaning given in AS 41.06.210;
10. (10) "reservoir" has the meaning given in AS 41.06.210;
11. (11) "storage facility" has the meaning given in AS 41.06.210;
12. (12) "storage operator" means a person holding or applying for a permit under AS 41.06.

(Eff. 2/16/2025, Register 253)

Authority: AS 38.05.020, AS 41.06.210, AS 43.55.165, AS 38.05.700, AS 41.06.305