§1103. Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section have the
following meaning when found in this Chapter:
(1)"Area of review" means the region surrounding a geologic sequestration project
where underground sources of drinking water may be endangered by the injection activity
and is delineated using computational modeling that accounts for the physical and chemical
properties of all phases of the injected carbon dioxide stream and displaced fluids and is
based on available site characterization, monitoring, and operational data.
(2)"Carbon dioxide" means naturally occurring, geologically sourced, or
anthropogenically sourced carbon dioxide including its derivatives and all mixtures,
combinations, and phases, whether liquid or gaseous, stripped, seg
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§1103. Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section have the
following meaning when found in this Chapter:
(1) "Area of review" means the region surrounding a geologic sequestration project
where underground sources of drinking water may be endangered by the injection activity
and is delineated using computational modeling that accounts for the physical and chemical
properties of all phases of the injected carbon dioxide stream and displaced fluids and is
based on available site characterization, monitoring, and operational data.
(2) "Carbon dioxide" means naturally occurring, geologically sourced, or
anthropogenically sourced carbon dioxide including its derivatives and all mixtures,
combinations, and phases, whether liquid or gaseous, stripped, segregated, or divided from
any other fluid stream thereof.
(3) "Common carrier" means a transporter of carbon dioxide by pipeline for storage
where there exists a reasonable probability that the pipeline will serve the public by
transporting carbon dioxide for storage for one or more third parties.
(4) "Confidential business information" means any information accepted or
determined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to be subject to
confidential treatment.
(5) "Gas" has the same meaning as provided in R.S. 30:3.
(6) "Geologic sequestration project" means an injection well or wells used to
emplace a carbon dioxide stream beneath the lowermost formation containing an
underground source of drinking water or wells used for geologic sequestration of carbon
dioxide that have received an expansion to the areal extent of an existing Class II enhanced
oil recovery or enhanced gas recovery aquifer exemption and includes the subsurface three-dimensional extent of the carbon dioxide plume, associated area of elevated pressure, and
displaced fluids and the surface area above that delineated region.
(7) "Geologic storage" means the long- or short-term underground storage of carbon
dioxide in a reservoir.
(8) "Interested person" means any person who presently owns an interest within the
area of, or proximate to, the tracts directly affected by the storage facility.
(9) "Landowner" means any person who owns the surface and subsurface of land or
water bottoms used for geologic storage, injection, or transportation of carbon dioxide who
is not the owner or operator of the storage facility or carbon dioxide transmission pipeline
or the generator of the carbon dioxide being handled by either the facility or pipeline. The
term "landowner" as used in this Chapter does not include the state.
(10) Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 458, §11, eff. Oct. 1, 2025.
(11) "Oil" has the same meaning as provided in R.S. 30:3.
(12) "Person" means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership,
limited liability company, or other entity, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator,
fiduciary, or representative of any kind.
(13) "Reservoir" means that portion of any underground geologic stratum, formation,
aquifer, or cavity or void, whether natural or artificially created, including oil and gas
reservoirs, salt domes or other saline formations, and coal and coalbed methane seams,
suitable for or capable of being made suitable for the injection and storage of carbon dioxide
therein.
(14) "Storage facility" means the underground reservoir, carbon dioxide injection
wells, monitoring wells, underground equipment, and surface buildings and equipment
utilized in the storage operation. The underground reservoir component of the storage facility
includes any necessary and reasonable aerial buffer and subsurface monitoring zones
designated by the secretary for the purpose of ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the
storage facility for the storage of carbon dioxide and shall be chosen to protect against
pollution, and escape or migration of carbon dioxide.
(15) "Storage operator" means the person recognized by the secretary as the operator
of a proposed or existing storage facility. A storage operator can, but need not be, the owner
of carbon dioxide injected into a storage facility. Ownership of carbon dioxide and use of
geologic storage is a matter of private contract between the storage operator and owner,
shipper, or generator of carbon dioxide, as applicable.
(16) "Waste", in addition to its ordinary meaning, means "physical waste" as that
term is generally understood in the storage industry.