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Section 9-17-124 Reference to National Fuel Gas Code.
References to the National Fuel Gas Code (NFPA 54) include future changes to that code if the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board adopts them.
- Code incorporation
- Fuel gas regulation
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Section 9-17-125 Preemption of Local Law.
Local laws, ordinances, and local governing body authorities cannot supersede this article.
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Section 9-17-13 Integration of Interests; Cycling Operations; Orders of Board; Procedures.
The board can require owners to pool or integrate drilling-unit interests, and it can approve or order related operations and cost-sharing terms.
- Drilling
- Pooling
- Production costs
- Unitization
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Section 9-17-130 Legislative Findings and Declaration.
The Legislature states that coalbed methane gas wells should be properly plugged when abandoned, and that financial resources should be available to do it without delay.
- Financial assurance
- Resource extraction
- Well plugging
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Section 9-17-131 Short Title.
This provision gives the article’s short title: “Alabama Coalbed Methane Gas Well Plugging Fund Act.”
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Section 9-17-132 Definitions.
This section defines several terms used in the article, including board, fund, coalbed methane gas well, plugging fee, operator, person, and supervisor.
- Fees
- Oil and gas
- Well plugging
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Section 9-17-133 Alabama Coalbed Methane Gas Well Plugging Fund.
A fund is created to be held by the State Treasurer and administered by the supervisor.
- Government funds
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Section 9-17-134 Determination by Board of Coalbed Methane Gas Wells Requiring Plugging.
After notice and a hearing, the board must arrange for plugging a coalbed methane gas well using fund money if specified risk, failure to plug, and security-inadequacy conditions are met.
- Well plugging
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Section 9-17-135 Action Authorized to Be Taken by Board.
After the board makes the specified determination, it must collect the bond proceeds and use them to pay the cost of plugging the wells.
- Bond proceeds
- Reimbursement
- Well plugging
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Section 9-17-136 Liability of Owners and Operators.
If the board has spent fund money to plug a coalbed methane gas well, the operator and working-interest owners must repay the state, and the board may sue to recover the money.
- Coalbed methane well plugging
- Fund repayment
- Operator liability
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Section 9-17-137 Plugging Fees Payable into Fund; Investment and Use of Fund.
People who want to drill a coalbed methane gas well must pay a $150 plugging fee per well, unless the fund balance is over $1,000,000. The board cannot issue the permit until the fee is paid if due.
- Drilling fees
- Fund administration
- Permit conditions
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Section 9-17-138 Termination of Fund.
If the board makes one of the stated determinations, the supervisor must certify that determination to the state Comptroller and the State Treasurer, and the fund’s money must then be disbursed and appropriated to certain Alabama counties.
- County funding
- Public finance
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Section 9-17-139 No Liability of State, Board or Supervisor to Third Parties.
This article says the board, the supervisor, and the State of Alabama are not liable for certain costs, damages, or third-party claims tied to a coalbed methane gas well not being properly plugged, and fund money may not be used to pay them.
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Section 9-17-14 Limitations Upon Rules, Regulations or Orders Establishing Limits on Production Allowable Within State or from Separate Pools; Production of More Than Established Allowable Production or Production in Unauthorized Manner.
The board must set and allocate oil or gas production limits on a reasonable basis, and people may not produce more than the applicable allowable or in an unauthorized manner.
- Allocation of allowable production
- Pool proration
- Production limits
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Section 9-17-15 Judicial Review of Rules, Regulations or Orders.
An aggrieved person may challenge a board rule, regulation, or order in circuit court within 30 days after promulgation, and the court must review the case on a limited record.
- Litigation
- Regulatory challenge
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Section 9-17-150 Definitions.
This section defines several terms used in the article, including CODE, GAS, STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD, STORAGE FACILITY, STORAGE OPERATOR, UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR, and UNDERGROUND STORAGE.
- Oil and gas
- Storage facilities
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Section 9-17-151 Legislative Declaration; Jurisdiction; Regulation of Operation and Abandonment of Underground Storage Facilities..
The board has authority over underground gas storage and may regulate facilities, require bonds or other financial security, and adopt fee rules.
- Gas storage
- Regulatory powers
- Underground storage facilities
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Section 9-17-152 Board Approval; Recordation of Order; Certificate of Effectiveness; Dissolution of Fields and Units; Determination of Commercial Reserves; Creation of Cavities.
Gas storage in an underground reservoir is allowed only if the board approves it first and the operator files the required certificate before injection starts.
- Gas storage
- Recordation
- Reservoir approval
- Severance tax
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Section 9-17-153 Protection Against Pollution and Escape of Gas; Property Rights.
The board must issue rules to protect storage facilities from pollution and gas escape, and stored hydrocarbons and injected gas belong to the storage operator.
- Gas
- Hydrocarbons
- Storage facilities
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Section 9-17-154 Eminent Domain.
A storage operator may use eminent domain to acquire needed rights for a storage facility, but only after board approval and subject to stated limits on salt domes and nearby land.
- Eminent domain
- Gas storage
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