### Question
What does risk mean?


### Answer
**Risk** has the following meaning in *30 U.S.C. § 1522*:

> the hazard that a reservoir of geothermal resources will cease to provide sufficient quantities of geothermal resources at minimum conditions required to maintain an economically or technically viable operation for utilization of the geothermal resource

#### Citation:
  - *30 U.S.C. § 1522*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 27-GEOTHERMAL ENERGY > SUBCHAPTER II-STUDY, ESTABLISHMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INSURANCE PROGRAM**

