(D) Procedures for replacement of a bond or
financial assurance instrument if notice of
cancellation is provided or notice that the license
to do business in this Commonwealth of the surety or
insurance company issuing a bond or other financial
assurance under this chapter is suspended or revoked.
(E) Procedures for the department to forfeit the
bond or to make a claim against an insurance
instrument providing financial assurance, including
the right of the attorney general to bring suit to
recover costs if the bond or financial assurance is
inadequate, to pay for closure, mitigation,
reclamation, measurement, monitoring, verification
and pollution control, where recovery is deemed
possible.
(F) Procedures, including public notice and a
public hearing if requested, for the release of bonds
or the termination of insurance instruments no less
than 10 years after the date when all wells excluding
monitoring wells have been appropriately plugged and
abandoned, all subsurface operations and activities
have ceased and all surface equipment and
improvements have been removed or appropriately
abandoned, or so long thereafter as necessary to
obtain a completion and release certificate from the
department certifying that plume stabilization has
been achieved without the use of control equipment
based on a minimum of three consecutive years of
monitoring data, and that the operator has completed
site reclamation and all required monitoring and
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