Act means the Oil and Gas Conservation Act of the State.

Commission or ECMC means the Energy and Carbon Management Commission of the State.

Day means a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours.

Director means the Director of the Energy and Carbon Management Commission of the State.

Injection well means any hole drilled into the earth into which fluids are injected for the purposes of secondary recovery, storage or disposal, pursuant to authorizations granted by the Commission.

Inspector means any person designated by the Town or the Town’s designee, who shall have the authority to inspect well sites to determine compliance with this Article and other applicable ordinances of the Town.

Oil and gas well means any hole drilled into the earth for the purpose of exploring for or extracting oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances.

Operating plan means a general description of a well site or a production site identifying purpose, use, typical staffing, seasonal or periodic considerations, routine hours of operating, source of services/infrastructure and any other information related to regular functioning of that facility.

Operator means the person designated by the working interest owners as operator and named in Commission Form 2 or a subsequently filed Commission Form 10.

Owner means any person with a working interest ownership in oil and gas or a leasehold interest therein.

Production site means the area surrounding proposed or existing production pits or other accessory equipment required for oil and gas production, at which may also be located tanks and tank batteries, exclusive of transmission and gathering pipelines.

Reentering means accessing an existing well bore for either the original or amended purpose, provided that such well has not been abandoned.

Sidetracking means entering the same well head from the surface, but not necessarily following the same well bore, throughout its subsurface extent when operations deviation from such well bore is necessary to reach the objective depth because of an engineering problem.

Substantial modification means addition, removal, replacement, or modification of equipment or other changes to a well site or production site that increase the site’s footprint, harmful emissions, traffic, noise, or odor, or could negatively impact public health, safety, welfare, or the environment or wildlife. This includes, without limitation, redrilling, sidetracking, twinning, or recompleting a well, or change of use to an injection well. Maintenance activities, installation of emission control equipment, and the addition of equipment necessary to fulfill mandated regulatory requirements are not substantial modifications.

Twinning means the drilling of a well within a radius of fifty (50) feet from an existing well bore when the well cannot be drilled to the objective depth or produced because of an engineering problem, such as a collapsed casing or formation damage.

Use tax means the tax paid by a consumer for using, storing, distributing or otherwise consuming tangible personal property or taxable services inside the Town.

Well means an oil and gas well or an injection well.

Well head means the equipment attaching the surface equipment to the well bore equipment at the well.

Well site means that area surrounding a proposed or existing well and accessory structures and equipment necessary for drilling, completion, recompletion, work-over, development and production activities.