Colorado Code
Article 65.5 - Notification of Surface Development
§ 24-65.5-102. Definitions - Legislative Declaration

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1.5) "Affiliate" means a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with another person and any officer, director, shareholder, member, partner, or owner of any such person.










(2.5) "Commission" means the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission created in section 34-60-104, C.R.S.
(2.6) "Drilling window" means an area established by the commission within which the surface location of a well or wells may be established. In the greater Wattenberg area, such drilling windows are referred to generally as the "GWA window" and more specifically as the "four-hundred-foot window" and the "eight-hundred-foot window".
(2.7) "Governmental quarter section" means an area, approximately square, consisting of four contiguous quarter-quarter sections as defined by an official governmental survey.
(2.8) "Greater Wattenberg area" means those lands from and including townships 2 south to 7 north and ranges 61 west to 69 west of the sixth principal meridian.



(5.5) "Oil and gas operations" has the meaning established in section 34-60-103, C.R.S.
(5.6) "Oil and gas operations area" means an area designated pursuant to section 24-65.5-103.5 as the exclusive area for the conduct of oil and gas drilling and production operations and the location of associated production facilities in qualified surface developments.
(5.7) "Qualifying surface development" means an application for development covering at least one hundred sixty gross acres, plus or minus five percent, within the greater Wattenberg area, including any applications for development filed by affiliates sharing a common boundary, in whole or in part.



Source: L. 2001: Entire article added, p. 486, § 2, effective July 1. L. 2002: (2) and (4) amended, p. 891, § 1, effective August 7. L. 2003: (2) amended, p. 3, § 1, effective February 26. L. 2007: (1.5), (2.5), (2.6), (2.7), (2.8), (5.5), (5.6), and (5.7) added and (2), (4), and (6) amended, p. 2111, § 2, effective August 3.

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