Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2878%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2878
Timestamp: 2018-03-18 16:45:14
Document Index: 593403998

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A BILL to amend and reenact the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; by adding thereto a new article, designated §22-6A-1, §22-6A-2, §22-6A-3, §22-6A-4, §22-6A-5, §22-6A-6, §22-6A-7, §22-6A-8, §22-6A-9, §22-6A-10, §22-6A-11, §22-6A-12, §22-6A-13, §22-6A-14, §22-6A-15, §22-6A-16, §22-6A-17, §22-6A-18, §22-6A-19, §22-6A-20, §22-6A-21, §22-6A-22, §22-6A-23, §22-6A-24, §22-6A-25, §22-6A-26, §22-6A-27, §22-6A-28, §22-6A-29, §22-6A-30, §22-6A-31, §22-6A-32, §22-6A-33, §22-6A-34, §22-6A-35, §22-6A-36, §22-6A-37, §22-6A-38, §22-6A-39, §22-6A-40, §22-6A-41, §22-6A-42, §22-6A-43, §22-6A-44, §22-6A-45, §22-6A-46 and §22-6A-47, all relating to regulating the construction and operation of gas wells utilizing hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling; providing declaration of public policy and legislative findings; providing for applicability; defining terms; granting Secretary of Department of Environmental Protection certain powers and duties; establishing permit requirements and permit fees; requiring erosion and sediment control plan; providing for a water pollution control permit and terms and conditions; requiring compliance with other state and federal programs; requiring department of highways approval of well road access; requiring notice to property owners; providing for receipt and consideration of comments from affected persons; providing permit application requirements; establishing erosion and sediment control plan requirements; providing plat survey requirements; providing opportunity to object to plat design by others with interest in property; providing for issuance of permit; requiring bond prior to receipt of permit and establishing bonding amounts and conditions for release; establishing well location restrictions and exceptions thereto; establishing agency requirements for permit issuance; providing notice of permit issuance; establishing inspection authority and process for notice, opportunity of abatement and enforcement of violations; providing notice and review process for orders and findings of the secretary; providing site restoration requirements; establishing well design and casing requirements and for inspections and approval thereof; providing for protection of water supplies; requiring reporting, monitoring and recordkeeping of fracturing chemicals; providing surface impoundment and pit requirements; requiring performance bonds or other security for each well; establishing time-frames and other conditions relating to reclamation of well sites; providing water management plans for use of water resources in fracturing process; providing for objections to proposed drilling location; providing for cement casings around coal seams; requiring wells be plugged upon completion of use, and establishing notice and processes related thereto; establishing special requirements for plugging around coal seams; providing for casings to protect fresh water; establishing reporting and documentation requirements; establishing methods of plugging; establishing notice and other requirements before entry upon surface lands; providing for notice of surface use and mediation agreements on surface use; establishing requirements for surface use and compensation agreements; providing for an appeal process to environmental quality board; establishing special fund for permitting and permit modification fees; creation of special reclamation fund; creating offenses for violations of this act and rules promulgated thereunder; providing for declaration of notice to owners and lessees of coal seams; and preempting local authority to regulate these operations, and providing exceptions thereto.
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §22-6A-1, §22-6A-2, §22-6A-3, §22-6A-4, §22-6A-5, §22-6A-6, §22-6A-7, §22-6A-8, §22-6A-9, §22-6A-10, §22-6A-11, §22-6A-12, §22-6A-13, §22-6A-14, §22-6A-15, §22-6A-16, §22-6A-17, §22-6A-18, §22-6A-19, §22-6A-20, §22-6A-21, §22-6A-22, §22-6A-23, §22-6A-24, §22-6A-25, §22-6A-26, §22-6A-27, §22-6A-28, §22-6A-29, §22-6A-30, §22-6A-31, §22-6A-32, §22-6A-33, §22-6A-34, §22-6A-35, §22-6A-36, §22-6A-37, §22-6A-38, §22-6A-39, §22-6A-40, §22-6A-41, §22-6A-42, §22-6A-43, §22-6A-44, §22-6A-45, §22-6A-46 and §22-6A-47, all to read as follows:
(u) “Watercourse means a channel or conveyance of surface water having defined bed and banks, whether natural or artifical, with perennial or intermittent flow.