<html> <head> <title>Rule 74:55:02:01 Definitions.</title> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Administrative Rules 74:55:02:01"> <META NAME="Description" Content="Administrative Rules 74:55:02:01 Definitions."> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Office HTML Filter 2.0"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <style> <!-- --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US> <div> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>74:55:02:01.&nbsp;&nbsp;Definitions.</b> Terms used in this chapter mean:</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Class I well,&quot; a well used by generators of hazardous wastes or owners or operators of hazardous waste management facilities to inject hazardous waste, other than Class IV wells; and other industrial and municipal disposal wells which inject fluids beneath the lowest formation containing, within one-quarter mile of the well bore, an underground source of drinking water as defined in §&nbsp;74:55:01:23;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Class II well,&quot; a well which injects fluids for the enhanced recovery of oil or natural gas, or for the storage of hydrocarbons, which are liquid at standard temperature and pressure, or a well which injects fluids which are brought to the surface in connection with conventional oil or natural gas production and may be commingled with waste waters from gas plants which are an integral part of production operations, unless those waters were classified as hazardous waste at the time of injection;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3)&nbsp;&nbsp;Class III well,&quot; a well which injects fluids for extraction of minerals or energy, including those wells used for solution mining of minerals; </font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Class IV well,&quot; a well used by generators of hazardous wastes or of radioactive wastes, by owners or operators of hazardous waste management facilities, or by owners or operators of radioactive waste disposal sites to dispose of hazardous wastes or radioactive wastes into or above a formation which contains an underground source of drinking water within one-quarter mile of the well;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Class V well,&quot; a well not included in Classes I - IV;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Hazardous waste,&quot; a hazardous waste as defined in 40 C.F.R. §&nbsp;261.3 as it existed on May 15, 1986;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Well,&quot; an artificial excavation or opening in the ground, made by digging, boring, drilling, jetting, or by another artificial method and often walled with bricks or tubing to prevent the sides from caving.</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Source:</b> 8 SDR 71, effective December 24, 1981; 11 SDR 30, effective August 30, 1984; 12 SDR 204, effective June 23, 1986; 13 SDR 129, 13 SDR 141, effective July 1, 1987; transferred from §&nbsp;74:03:12:01, July 1, 1996.</font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>General Authority:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34A-2-12">34A-2-12.</A></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Law Implemented:</b> SDCL <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=34A-2-12">34A-2-12.</A></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p> </div> </body> </html>