Source: https://www.velaw.com/shale-fracking-tracker/resources/wyoming/
Timestamp: 2020-04-02 00:38:00
Document Index: 553555933

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 30', '§ 4', '§ 25', '§ 45', '§ 39', '§ 3', '§ 5', '§ 7', '§ 45', '§ 46', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39']

Wyoming | Shale & Fracking Tracker | Vinson & Elkins LLP
Oil and Gas Policy and Environment Guidance
WOGCC Environmental Guidelines – The WOGCC website provides links to various guidelines, policy statements, and handbooks with information on environmental issues and best management practices related to oil and gas development. The webpage also includes links to documents issued by the EPA and environmental agencies in other states. Notable guidelines include:
Memorandum of Agreement between the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, the WOGCC, and the Wyoming State Engineer’s Office – defines the permitting and administrative responsibilities of the WOGCC, the WDEQ, and the State Engineer regarding water resources related to oil and gas development throughout the state.
WOGCC Reclamation Guidelines – regulate reclamation procedures with the goal of returning surface land used for oil and gas exploration, drilling, or production activity to its original use
CBM, Oil, or Gas Produced Water Permit Requirements – consolidates in a single document the existing WVDEQ and WQD rules and regulations pertaining to the permitting, construction, operation, and monitoring of treatment facilities associated with coal bed methane and traditional oil/gas produced water.
Commercial Oilfield Wastewater Disposal Facilities – consolidates in a single document the existing WVDEQ and WQD rules and regulations pertaining to the permitting, construction, operation, bonding and monitoring of commercial oilfield wastewater disposal facilities (defined as any facility that accepts oilfield exploration and production wastes from more than one producer).
Underground Injection Program Control Guidance – contains WQD guidance procedures for the 6 well classes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets guidelines for Classes I, III, IV, V, and VI. Class II wells are regulated by the WOGCC.
WOGCC Spill Cleanup Guidelines – establishes spill cleanup standards for oil and gas exploration and production sites and employ ranking systems for soil remediation and evaluating the environmental sensitivity of the impacted site
Chapter 6, Section 2 Oil and Gas Production Facilities Permitting Guidance (2013) – supplements the WAQ New Source Review permitting program; this guidance applies solely to the permitting of oil and gas production facilities.
Pavillion, Wyoming Area Domestic Water Wells Draft Final Report and Palatability Study: Draft Final Report
Wyoming Requiring Pre-Drilling Groundwater Testing, V&E News & Flashes, November 14, 2013
2 Wyoming State Geological Survey, Wyoming Oil & Gas Facts, http://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/energy/oil-gas-facts.
3 See generally WYO. STAT. § 30-5-104.
5 See generally Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission [“WOGCC”], Environmental webpage, http://wogcc.state.wy.us/craig/craigie.html?Skip=%27Y%27&oops=490.
8 Id. at §§ 4–7.
12 Id. at § 25.
13 Id. at § 45.
14 Id. at § 39.
16 Id. at § 3.
17 Id. at § 5.
18 Id. at §§ 7–11.
20 Wyoming promulgates new rules (2010), INTERSTATE OIL & GAS COMPACT COMM’N http://groundwork.iogcc.ok.gov/node/921.
22 See id. at § 45(f).
27 Id. at § 46(d).
31 Id. at § 39(b).
32 Id. at § 39(c).
34 Id. at § 39(c)(ii)(H).
37 Benjamin Storrow, Wyoming approves 500-foot setback for oil and gas operations, CASPER STAR TRIB. (April 14, 2015), http://trib.com/business/energy/wyoming-approves–foot-setback-for-oil-and-gas-operations/article_ed52b0d1-9d52-542b-9f5a-32d79c21a1d7.html.