preserve the interest, and the rights of a lessor of the
interest, by recording a single written notice defining the
boundaries of and the formations included in the underground gas
storage field without the necessity of describing each separate
interest in oil or gas claimed in the underground gas storage
field by that person.
(d) Legal effect of recorded notice.--
(1) Recording a written notice under this section shall
operate to preserve the interest in oil or gas included in
the written notice from abandonment under this act for a
period of 20 years after recording.
(2) At the conclusion of the 20-year period, the
interest shall be deemed abandoned if, during that 20-year
period:
(i) the nondormant character of the interest has not
been evidenced by sale, lease, mortgage or transfer by
instrument recorded in the recorder of deeds office for
the county in which the interest is located;
(ii) a drilling permit has not been issued;
(iii) oil or gas has not been actually produced or
withdrawn from the land, or from lands covered by a lease
to which the interest is subject, or from lands pooled,
unitized or included in unit operations of the interest;
(iv) there has been no use of the interest in
underground gas storage operations; or
(v) no similar notice has been filed.
(e) Indefinitely preserving interest in oil and gas.--In the
absence of prior abandonment, an interest in oil or gas in land
owned by a person other than the owner of the surface may be
preserved indefinitely from abandonment under this act by filing
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