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| PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1102, 1246, 1391 | PRINTER'S NO. 1445 |
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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ARGALL, COSTA, ERICKSON, FOLMER, FONTANA, KASUNIC, ORIE, RAFFERTY, SCARNATI, SCHWANK, WASHINGTON, YUDICHAK, FARNESE, BROWNE AND MENSCH, APRIL 25, 2011 |
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| AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, JUNE 27, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, requiring |
3 | that the operator of each permitted unconventional oil and |
4 | gas well within Pennsylvania post certain 911 response |
5 | information at the entrance to each well site. |
6 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
7 | hereby enacts as follows: |
8 | Section 1. Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
9 | Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: |
10 | § 7321. Unconventional oil and gas well 911 emergency response |
11 | information. |
12 | The (a) Emergency regulations.--The agency and the | <-- |
13 | Department of Environmental Protection shall adopt emergency |
14 | regulations directing the operators of all unconventional gas |
15 | and oil wells within this Commonwealth to do all of the |
16 | following: |
17 | (1) Adopt a unique GPS coordinate address for each |
18 | unconventional gas or oil well at both the access road |
19 | entrance and wellpad site. |
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1 | (2) Register that address with the agency, the |
2 | Department of Environmental Protection and the county |
3 | emergency management organization within the county where the |
4 | unconventional gas or oil well is located. |
5 | (3) Require the development of an emergency response |
6 | plan and file that plan with the agency, the Department of |
7 | Environmental Protection and the county emergency management |
8 | organization with jurisdiction over the unconventional gas or |
9 | oil well. The county shall disseminate the GPS address and |
10 | emergency response plan to the local emergency management |
11 | organization in which the unconventional gas or oil well is |
12 | located. |
13 | (4) Post a reflective sign at the entrance to each well |
14 | site with the specific address of that site, the coordinates |
15 | for the site, the emergency contact number for the operator |
16 | and such other information as the agency or the Department of |
17 | Environmental Protection deems necessary. |
18 | (b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following | <-- |
19 | words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this |
20 | subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: |
21 | "Unconventional oil or gas well." A bore hole drilled or |
22 | being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for producing oil |
23 | or gas from a geological formation existing below the base of |
24 | the Elk Sandstone or its geologic equivalent stratigraphic |
25 | interval where oil or gas generally cannot be produced at |
26 | economic flow rates or in economic volumes except by vertical or |
27 | horizontal well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracture |
28 | treatments or by using multilateral well bores or other |
29 | techniques to expose more of the formation of the well bore. |
30 | Section 2. Regulations promulgated under 35 Pa.C.S. § 7321 |
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1 | shall apply to both new and existing unconventional gas and oil |
2 | wells within this Commonwealth. |
3 | Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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