Bill Text: TX HB4360 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inventory and inspection of certain converted wells.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Energy Resources [HB4360 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4360-Introduced.html
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| By: Rogers | H.B. No. 4360 | |
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| relating to the inventory and inspection of certain converted | ||
| wells. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 81, Natural Resources | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 81.0561 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 81.0561. INVENTORY AND INSPECTION OF CERTAIN WELLS. | ||
| (a) The commission shall maintain and make publicly available an | ||
| inventory of wells originally drilled or operated as an oil or gas | ||
| well under a permit issued by the commission and subsequently | ||
| conveyed to a landowner for use as a water well. | ||
| (b) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) require a form to be filed with the commission | ||
| regarding the conveyance of a well described by Subsection (a) to | ||
| provide notice that the well that is the subject of the conveyance: | ||
| (A) will be included in the publicly available | ||
| inventory required by Subsection (a); and | ||
| (B) may be subject to inspection under Subsection | ||
| (c); and | ||
| (2) provide notice to the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality of each form described by Subdivision (1) | ||
| that is filed. | ||
| (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality shall inspect a well that is | ||
| the subject of a form described by Subsection (b) between the 20th | ||
| and 25th anniversary of the date the form is filed with commission. | ||
| (d) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is not | ||
| required to perform an inspection under Subsection (c) if the | ||
| surface owner of the well files with the commission a form | ||
| certifying that the well is in good working order or has been | ||
| properly plugged. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 81.0561, Natural Resources Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a well for which a form giving | ||
| notice of the conveyance of a well described by Subsection (a) of | ||
| that section is filed with the Railroad Commission of Texas on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
