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State officials seek to streamline oilfield-waste permitting and update NPDES rules to keep EPA delegation
Summary
The Department of Energy and Environment told the Senate committee it will transfer Class 2 disposal well permitting and routine surface inspections to oil-and-gas inspectors to eliminate duplicative permits; DEQ said it will retain oversight for water impacts and that NPDES updates are needed to preserve federal delegation.
Bailey Taylor, director of the Division of Environmental Quality, and Keisha Morrison, chief counsel at the Department of Energy and Environment, presented Rule 1 amendments to transfer permitting and routine surface inspections for Class 2 disposal wells to the Oil and Gas Commission, and sought review of Rule 6 amendments to maintain state administration of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).
Taylor said…
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