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Senate panel delays enforcement on plugging long-inactive wells, leaves bill pending
Summary
The Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development left Senate Bill 1150 pending after the author described a two-year delay to enforcement and technical fixes to reporting and waiver standards concerning inactive oil and gas wells under Railroad Commission jurisdiction.
Senate members on the Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development left Senate Bill 1150 pending after the bill’s author described changes intended to delay enforcement and clarify reporting and waiver standards for certain inactive oil and gas wells.
Senator Nathaniel Middleton, the bill’s author, told the committee the substitute delays enforcement for two years to allow operators and the Railroad Commission time to plan implementation, while keeping the bill’s reporting and effective-date provisions intact. “We’re pushing back the bill…
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