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) "Office" means the Office of State Lands and Investments.
(e) "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.
(f) "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.
060-6 Wyo. Code R. § 6-2