[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR9.31]

[Page 165]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 9_MINERALS MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B_Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights
 
Sec. 9.31  Definitions.

    The terms used in this subpart shall have the following meanings:
    (a) Secretary. The Secretary of the Interior.
    (b) Director. The Director of the National Park Service or his 
designee.
    (c) Operations. All functions, work and activities within a unit in 
connection with exploration for and development of oil and gas 
resources, the right to which is not owned by the United States, 
including: gathering basic information required to comply with this 
subpart, prospecting, exploration, surveying, preproduction development 
and production; gathering, onsite storage, transport or processing of 
petroleum products; surveillance, inspection, monitoring, or maintenance 
of equipment; reclamation of the surface disturbed by such activities; 
and all activities and uses reasonably incident thereto performed within 
a unit, including construction or use of roads, pipelines, or other 
means of access or transportation on, across, or through federally owned 
or controlled lands and waters, regardless of whether such activities 
and uses take place on Federal, State or private lands.
    (d) Operator. A person conducting or proposing to conduct 
operations.
    (e) Person. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, 
association, or other entity.
    (f) Superintendent. The Superintendent, or his designee, of the unit 
of the National Park System containing lands subject to the rights 
covered by these regulations.
    (g) Commercial Vehicle. Any motorized equipment used in direct or 
indirect support of operations.
    (h) Unit. Any National Park System area.
    (i) Owner. The owner, or his legal representative, of the rights to 
oil and gas being exercised.
    (j) Designated Roads. Those existing roads determined by the 
Superintendent in accordance with 36 CFR 1.5 and Sec. 4.19 to be open 
for the use of the general public or for the exclusive use of an 
operator.
    (k) Oil. Any viscous combustible liquid hydrocarbon or solid 
hydrocarbon substance easily liquifiable on warming which occurs 
naturally in the earth, including drip gasoline or other natural 
condensates recovered from gas without resort to manufacturing process.
    (l) Gas. Any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is 
produced in a natural state from the earth and which maintains a gaseous 
or rarefied state at ordinary temperature and pressure conditions.
    (m) Site. Those lands or waters on which operations are to be 
carried out.
    (n) Contaminating substances. Those substances, including but not 
limited to, salt water or any other injurious or toxic chemcial, waste 
oil or waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud with injurious or toxic 
additives, or injurious or toxic substances produced or used in the 
drilling, development, production, transportation, or on-site storage, 
refining, and processing of oil and gas.
    (o) Statement for Management. A National Park Service planning 
document used to guide short- and long-term management of a unit; to 
determine the nature and extent of planning required to meet the unit's 
management objectives; and, in the absence of more specific planning 
documents, to provide a general framework for directing park operations 
and communicating park objectives to the public.

[43 FR 57825, Dec. 8, 1978; 44 FR 37914, June 29, 1979, as amended at 60 
FR 55791, Nov. 3, 1995; 62 FR 30234, June 3, 1997]