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2009 SESSION

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HB 1840 Gas and Oil Act; exempts well from minimum distance limit if plan for plugging well before mining.

Introduced by: H. Morgan Griffith | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Gas and Oil Act; distance limitations of wells.  Exempts wells from minimum distance limitations if the proposed drilling application includes a plan for plugging the well in advance of mining that would allow for the mine-through of the well. Permits to drill coalbed methane gas wells must also include a notice of stimulation if the proposed method of stimulation of the coal seam requires an amount of proppant greater than 10,000 pounds per foot of coal in the coal seam. If the applicant proposes to stimulate and the proposed method of stimulation of the coal seam requires an amount of proppant equal to or less than 10,000 pounds per foot of coal in the coal seam, then no consent shall be required of the coal operator.

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• 01/12/09  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 096907520  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 01/12/09  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 096907520
• 01/12/09  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 01/21/09  House: Assigned ACNRsub: #2 Natural Resource
• 02/04/09  House: Tabled in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote