HB 2042-1_ Filed 02/08/2001, 08:39
Adopted 02/08/2001


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COMMITTEE REPORT


                                                        YES:

13

                                                        NO:
0

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:

SOURCE: Page 3, line 2; (01)AM204201.3. -->     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;
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    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