Thermal Underground

Coordination view

Regulatory reference

Clocks in the rule set, OpenEI RAPID, and INFRA-COMPASS. Where a duration is statutory, agency-published, or assumed.

The timeline’s Slower / Typical / Faster control does not pull live agency clocks. Each of nine reviews in the rule set carries three duration estimates, in days, and a tag for where that number came from. Faster uses the low column, Typical the middle, Slower the high. The large day count on the timeline is the longest path to an Application for Permit to Drill, not the sum of every row. Reviews that can run in parallel do.

Statutory clock written into regulation Agency figure published by an agency, not a statutory maximum Assumption planning estimate encoded in the rule set

Statutory clock. Only ESA Section 7 formal consultation is tagged this way: 90 / 135 / 180 days. The typical 135 is 50 CFR 402.14 — 90 days to conclude consultation, 45 days to issue the biological opinion. The slow band (180) is the rule set’s allowance for a longer case, not a second statutory number.

Published agency figure. NEPA environmental assessment (270 / 365 / 540) and ESA informal consultation (45 / 60 / 90). These are numbers agencies publish, not scraped from a docket for Dixie Valley.

Stated assumption. Section 106, UIC Class V, biological assessment and survey seasons, Nevada water right, NEPA decision, and APD. Citations on those rows name the statute or regulation that creates the review. They do not, by themselves, supply the days.

Review Authority Faster Typical Slower Origin
NHPA Section 106 54 U.S.C. 306108; 36 CFR 800 90120180 Assumption
UIC Class V permit 42 U.S.C. 300h; 40 CFR 144 180270365 Assumption
NEPA environmental assessment 42 U.S.C. 4332; 43 CFR 46 270365540 Agency figure
Biological assessment and survey seasons 50 CFR 402.12 270365540 Assumption
Nevada water right NRS 533 270365540 Assumption
ESA informal consultation 16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2); 50 CFR 402.13 456090 Agency figure
ESA formal consultation 16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2); 50 CFR 402.14 90135180 Statutory clock
NEPA decision (FONSI or ROD) 43 CFR 46.325 456090 Assumption
Application for Permit to Drill 43 CFR 3261 120180270 Assumption

The same rows, with triggers and prerequisites, are on the timeline under Rule set. The 570–1170 range under the typical total is this table’s low and high columns run on the current conditions, not a confidence interval from a model.

LLM-based extraction of state and local codes and ordinances for energy infrastructure. National Laboratories of the Rockies. Open source at github.com/NatLabRockies/COMPASS. Datasets publish annually to OpenEI.

Published, wind and solar only

Geothermal electricity zoning ordinances, BLM resource management plans, and water ordinances are in the FY26 program scope and are not yet published.

What would depend on it here: local conditional use, setbacks, and water ordinances. The rule set currently has no local review at any level.

COMPASS records carry a source URL back to the original ordinance document and are marked as LLM-extracted, requiring validation for critical use. That is the same provenance discipline used on this site, from an existing DOE program.

OpenEI RAPID geothermal toolkit. jurisdictions. Captured Source: openei.org/wiki/RAPID/Geothermal.

Topic narratives

No topic narratives in this capture for this jurisdiction. The RAPID index lists pages.