H1401B2610A04206 PWK:BTW 10/20/17 #90 A04206
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 1401
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE OBERLANDER
Printer's No. 2610
Amend Bill, page 1, line 11, by inserting after "TAX;"
in general provisions, providing for well site restoration;
Amend Bill, page 36, by inserting between lines 11 and 12
Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 3003.23. Well site restoration.--(a) Each oil or
gas well owner or operator shall restore the land surface within
the area disturbed in siting, drilling, completing and producing
the well.
(b) During and after earthmoving or soil disturbing
activities, including, but not limited to, activities related to
siting, drilling, completing, producing and plugging the well,
erosion and sedimentation control measures shall be implemented
in accordance with an erosion and sedimentation control plan
prepared in accordance with the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987,
No.394), known as "The Clean Streams Law."
(c) (1) Within nine months after completion of drilling of
a well, the owner or operator shall restore the well site,
remove or fill all pits used to contain produced fluids or
industrial wastes and remove all drilling supplies and equipment
not needed for production. Drilling supplies and equipment not
needed for production may be stored on the well site if express
written consent of the surface landowner is obtained.
(2) When multiple wells are drilled or permitted to be
drilled on a single well site, the restoration provisions
contained in this section shall apply within twenty-four months
after completion of all wells drilled on the well site or
twenty-four months after the expiration of all existing well
permits on the well site for wells which have not been drilled
to total depth, whichever is later.
(d) Within nine months after plugging a well, the owner or
operator shall remove all production or storage facilities,
supplies and equipment and restore the well site.
(e) Restoration activities required by this chapter or in
regulations promulgated under this chapter shall also comply
with all applicable provisions of "The Clean Streams Law."
(f) Failure to restore the well site as required in this
chapter or regulations promulgated under this chapter
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