060-6 Wyo. Code R. § 6-2 - Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board" means the Board of Land
Commissioners.
(b) "Director" means
the Director of the Office of State Lands and Investments.
(c) "Existing Lease" means a surface or
subsurface lease of state land or state minerals approved by the Board and in
effect prior to the wind energy lease.
(d) "Surface Impact Payment" means money paid
by a wind energy lessee to an existing surface lessee in compensation for
potential negative impacts to the leasehold estate, including, but not limited
to, destruction of forage, disruption of grazing, agricultural, or commercial
operations, nuisance, inconvenience, and for incidental use of the land
surface.
(e) "Wind Energy Leasing"
means leasing of state land for the exclusive right to convert wind energy into
electrical energy including collecting and transmitting the electrical energy
so converted to the substation from which the electricity will be transmitted
from the wind energy development to the interconnection of the transmission
grid.
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As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board " means the Board of Land Commissioners.
(b) "Director " means the Director of the Office of State Lands and Investments.
(c) "Existing Lease " means a surface or subsurface lease of state land or state minerals approved by the Board and in effect prior to the wind energy lease.
(d) "Surface Impact Payment " means money paid by a wind energy lessee to an existing surface lessee in compensation for potential negative impacts to the leasehold estate, including, but not limited to, destruction of forage, disruption of grazing, agricultural, or commercial operations, nuisance, inconvenience, and for incidental use of the land surface.
(e) "Wind Energy Leasing " means leasing of state land for the exclusive right to convert wind energy into electrical energy including collecting and transmitting the electrical energy so converted to the substation from which the electricity will be transmitted from the wind energy development to the interconnection of the transmission grid.