Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 22 > Article 11B - Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Carbon dioxide: means carbon dioxide produced by anthropogenic sources which is of such purity and quality that it will not compromise the safety of geologic storage and will not compromise those properties of a storage reservoir which allow the reservoir to effectively enclose and contain a stored gas. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• carbon dioxide storage: means the injection of carbon dioxide and associated constituents into subsurface geologic reservoirs intended to provide for the long-term containment of a gaseous, liquid, or supercritical carbon dioxide stream in subsurface geologic formations and thereby prevent its release into the atmosphere. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Commission: means the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission established pursuant to §. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Completion certificate: means a Certificate of Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Completion. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Office: means any office, division, board, agency, unit, organizational entity or component thereof within the Department of Environmental Protection. See West Virginia Code 22-1-2
• Permit: means a Class VI underground injection control permit issued by the secretary or by the US EPA, authorizing a person or business entity to drill an injection well and to construct and operate a carbon dioxide sequestration facility. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Pore space: means a cavity or void, whether naturally or artificially created, in a subsurface stratum and is also known as container space or storage rights. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, all rights thereto and interests therein, except chattel interests. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Reservoir: means a subsurface stratum, formation, aquifer, cavity, or void, whether naturally or artificially created, including oil and gas reservoirs, saline formations, and coal seams suitable for, or capable of being made suitable for, injecting and storing carbon dioxide. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• sequestration facility: means the reservoir, underground equipment, and surface facilities and equipment used or proposed to be used in a carbon dioxide sequestration project, but does not include pipelines used to transport carbon dioxide to the storage facility. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Storage operator: means a person applying for or holding a permit until the issuance of a completion certificate for the relevant storage facility. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• Storage reservoir: means a reservoir proposed, authorized, or used for storing carbon dioxide. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• UIC: means underground injection control. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2
• US EPA: means United States Environmental Protection Agency. See West Virginia Code 22-11B-2