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COMMITTEE REPORT
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NO:
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MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Environmental Affairs , to which was referred House Bill
2042 , has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the
House with the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
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Page 3, line 2, strike "and".
Page 3, line 3, after "located;" insert "
and
(3) any crude oil stored on the well site or recovered at the
time the well is plugged and abandoned;".
Page 3, delete lines 9 through 17, begin a new paragraph and insert:
"
(f) If the commission elects to plug and abandon a well under
subsection (a)(2), the commission may also enter an order
authorizing its agents, employees, or contractors to dispose of:
(1) casing and all equipment located on or removed from the
well site; and
(2) any crude oil stored on the well site or recovered;
at the time the well is plugged and abandoned. An inventory of the
casing and all equipment and any crude oil shall be made, and the
salvage or other reasonable market value of the casing and all
equipment and any crude oil shall be applied as a credit to offset
the actual cost incurred by the commission to plug and abandon
the well.".
(Reference is to HB 2042 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
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Representative Weinzapfel
AM204201/DI 69 2001