11 AAC 96.250. Definitions

In this chapter

(1) "land use activity" means any use of or entry on state land for any purpose, including but not limited to exploration, hunting, recreation, and access;

(2) "director" means the director of the division of lands in the Department of Natural Resources, or an authorized representative of the director;

(3) "department" means the Department of Natural Resources;

(4) "processing" means the preparation of data, by computer or other device, which enhances the data;

(5) "seismic exploration" means the survey of the earth's surface or the use of seismic methods to gather data that may be used to determine subsurface geologic characteristics;

(6) "seismic exploration data" means data, including information necessary to locate and identify that data, derived from seismic exploration of state land and initially processed to a level comparable to that of the data distributed to participants in a group seismic survey by use of techniques used to render the data in a format ready for geological interpretation for the first time; such techniques include but are not limited to amplitude recovery, deconvolution, static corrections, velocity analysis, normal moveout corrections, common depth point stacking, digital filtering and migration. "Seismic exploration data" may include navigation tapes, velocity spectra, final stack sections, true amplitude sections and migrated sections; but does not include, and the applicant is not required to submit to the director

(A) magnetic tapes other than navigation tapes; and

(B) data that would otherwise be included, but which the permittee or a contractor working on behalf of the permittee does not obtain or prepare;

(7) "stratigraphic test" means the drilling of a well to a sufficient depth to measure the geologic, geophysical, and engineering parameters used for determining an area's oil and gas potential;

(8) "stratigraphic test data" means all logs, surveys, samples, and tests taken in association with the drilling and testing of a stratigraphic test well and includes but is not limited to, mud logs, electrical logs, density logs, sonic logs, neutron logs, gamma logs, dip-meter surveys, velocity surveys, directional surveys, core descriptions, sample descriptions (including descriptive palynology and paleontology), fluid analyses, drillstem tests, formation tests, and periodic drilling and operations reports;

(9) "ADL number" means the file number assigned as an identifier by the division exercising the authority and duties of the division of lands identified under AS 38.05 within the department;

(10) "commercial recreation" means recreational use of land, water, and resources for business or financial gain; commercial recreation includes guided sport fishing, guided and outfitted sport hunting, guided recreation, and air and water taxi services that provide transportation to recreational users of state land; "commercial recreation" does not include solely anchoring a vessel overnight on state shoreland, tideland, or submerged land;

(11) "curb weight" means the weight of a vehicle with a full tank of fuel and all fluids topped off but with no one sitting inside or on the vehicle and no cargo loaded;

(12) "public domain land" means state land that has not been reserved or withdrawn from multiple use management under AS 38 by act of the state legislature or, in compliance with the acreage limit set by AS 38.05.300 , by administrative action;

(13) "shoreland" has the meaning given in AS 38.05.965 ;

(14) "state land" has the meaning given in AS 38.05.965 ; "state land"

(A) includes an interest in land that is owned by the state and managed under AS 38; and

(B) does not include Alaska mental health trust land as defined in 11 AAC 99.990 and managed under AS 37.14.009 and AS 38.05.801 ;

(15) "submerged land" has the meaning given in AS 38.05.965 ;

(16) "thermal erosion" means the partial or complete melting of a continuous or discontinuous permafrost layer; for purposes of this paragraph, "permafrost layer" includes ice lenses, ice wedges, and pingos;

(17) "tideland" has the meaning given in AS 38.05.965 ;

(18) "visitor day" means all or any part of a calendar day during which a commercial recreation client is present, with each client representing a separate visitor day if multiple clients are present at any time during a calendar day;

(19) "motorized vehicle" means a vehicle that is powered by an internal combustion engine and that an individual uses for the purpose of personal or commercial transportation;

(20) "operator" means a person that engages in commercial recreation;

(21) "trip" means travel of brief duration to a destination on state land, that may include stopovers on state land.

History: Eff. 1/1/70, Register 32; am 3/21/81, Register 77; am 8/19/84, Register 91; am 12/7/2002, Register 164; am 1/11/2004, Register 169

Authority: AS 38.05.020

AS 38.05.035

AS 38.05.180

AS 38.05.850

Editor's note: 11 AAC 96.250(1) and (2) are derived from former 11 AAC 96.150, which was repealed in 3/21/71. The history note set out after this section includes the history of 11 AAC 96.150 before the repeal of that section.

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