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Committee adopts updated well-construction standards and eases rules for low‑temperature geothermal wells
Summary
The committee approved revisions to well-construction rules, clarifying construction and decommissioning standards and allowing certain low‑temperature geothermal wells to be built to cold‑water standards, a change supporters said will lower costs.
The Idaho Senate Resources and Environment Committee approved revised well-construction standards that clarify minimum construction, modification and decommissioning requirements and include changes supporters say will ease costs for some low‑temperature geothermal wells.
Eric Boe, Water Compliance Bureau Chief and rules review officer for the Department of Water Resources, presented the pending well-construction rules (docket 3703092401). Boe told the committee the chapter updates definitions,…
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