[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR3130.0-5]



[Page 385]

 

                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 3130_OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA

--Table of Contents

 

 Subpart 3130_Oil and Gas Leasing, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska: 

                                 General

 

Sec.  3130.0-5  Definitions.



    As used in this part, the term:

    (a) Act means the Department of the Interior Appropriations Act, 

Fiscal Year 1981 (Pub. L. 96-514).

    (b) Bureau means the Bureau of Land Management.

    (c) Constructive operations means the exploring, testing, surveying 

or otherwise investigating the potential of a lease for oil and gas or 

the actual drilling or preparation for drilling of wells therefor.

    (d) NPR-A means the area formerly within Naval Petroleum Reserve 

Numbered 4 Alaska which was redesignated as the National Petroleum 

Reserve--Alaska by the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 

(42 U.S.C. 6501).

    (e) Reworking operations means all operations designed to secure, 

restore or improve production through some use of a hole previously 

drilled, including, but not limited to, mechanical or chemical treatment 

of any horizon, deepening to test deeper strata and plugging back to 

test higher strata.

    (f) Special Areas means the Utokok River, the Teshekpuk Lake areas 

and other areas within NPR--A identified by the Secretary as having 

significant subsistence, recreational, fish and wildlife or historical 

or scenic value.



[46 FR 55497, Nov. 9, 1981, as amended at 53 FR 17358, May 16, 1988]