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Senate Agriculture Committee advances carbon‑storage rules, egg‑marketing and cleanup fixes
Summary
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development voted to advance several bills, including measures to authorize class‑6 carbon‑injection wells and CO2 pipelines, a technical fix to egg‑marketing rules and a cleanup to underground storage‑tank spending limits.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development on Wednesday advanced a package of bills that includes new state rules to allow carbon dioxide injection wells and CO2 pipelines, along with technical corrections to egg‑marketing and underground storage‑tank statutes.
Committee members voted to pass House Bill 14‑11, which authorizes the Oil and Gas Commission to establish a program for class‑6 wells to inject carbon dioxide into underground pore space and to apply to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for primacy over that program. Senator Matt Stone, who presented the bill, said the measure would streamline permitting, require a $50,000 application fee for computer modeling, impose an annual well fee of $1,000 and establish a per‑ton…
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