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CA Pub Res Code § 3270.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 4.4 - Regulation of Production Facilities|Section 3270.5.

3270.5.  (a) (1) By January 1, 2018, the division shall review and evaluate, and update as appropriate, its existing regulations regarding all active gas pipelines that are four inches or less in diameter, located in sensitive areas, and 10 years old or older. The division shall make a written finding of its review and evaluation of these pipelines.(2) In its review and evaluation, the division shall consider existing pipeline integrity, pipeline leak detection, and other pipeline assessment requirements imposed by other regulators to determine which of these forms of assessment meet the division’s needs.(3) The regulations shall ensure the integrity and operation of these active gas pipelines pursuant to Sections 3106 and 3270.(b) (1) By January 1, 2018, an operator of an active gas pipeline in a sensitive area shall submit to the division, as part of compliance with pipeline management plan requirements pursuant to Section 1774.2 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, an up-to-date and accurate map identifying the location of the pipeline and other up-to-date and accurate locational information of the pipeline as determined and in a format specified by the division.(2) The division shall perform random periodic spot check inspections to ensure that the information submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) is accurately reported.(3) The division shall maintain a list of active gas pipelines in sensitive areas.(c) For purposes of this section, the following terms are defined as follows:(1) “Active gas pipeline” means an inservice gas pipeline regardless of diameter that is within the division’s jurisdiction.(2) “Sensitive area” means any of the following:(A) An area containing a building intended for human occupancy, such as a residence, school, hospital, or business, that is located within 300 feet of an active gas pipeline and that is not necessary to the operation of the pipeline.(B) An area determined by the supervisor to present significant potential threat to life, health, property, or natural resources in the event of a leak from an active gas pipeline.(C) An area determined by the supervisor to have an active gas pipeline that has a history of chronic leaks.(d) This section does not affect or limit the authority of the supervisor pursuant to Section 3106, 3270, or any other section of this code, or any regulation implementing those sections.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 601, Sec. 3. (AB 1420) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3270.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 4.4 - Regulation of Production Facilities|Section 3270.6.

3270.6.  Upon the discovery of a leak from an active gas pipeline that is within a sensitive area, as defined in Section 3270.5, the owner or operator of the pipeline shall promptly notify the division and the local health officer, or his or her designee, of the jurisdiction in which the leak is located.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 601, Sec. 4. (AB 1420) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3275 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 4.5 - Interstate Cooperation in Oil and Gas Conservation|Section 3275.

3275.  The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves “The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas,” and the amendment, extension, and renewal thereof, as set forth in Section 3276. The provisions of the compact shall become the law of this state upon the compact becoming operative as provided in Article VIII of the compact.(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1335.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3277 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 4.5 - Interstate Cooperation in Oil and Gas Conservation|Section 3277.

3277.  The Governor is hereby designated as the official representative of the State of California on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission provided for in the compact ratified by this article. The Governor shall exercise and perform for the State of California all the powers and duties imposed by the compact upon the representative to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission. The Director of Conservation is hereby designated to be the assistant representative and he or she shall act as the official representative of the State of California on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission when the authority to so act is delegated to him or her by the Governor. In his or her absence, the State Oil and Gas Supervisor is hereby designated to be the assistant representative. The Executive Officer of the State Lands Commission is hereby designated to be the associate representative. In addition, both the assistant representative and the associate representative shall perform such other duties as the Governor may designate which are necessary to enable the State of California to cooperate fully in accomplishing the objectives of the compact.(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 701, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3300 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3300.

3300.  The unreasonable waste of natural gas by the act, omission, sufferance, or insistence of the lessor, lessee or operator of any land containing oil or gas, or both, whether before or after the removal of gasoline from the gas, is opposed to the public interest and is unlawful. The blowing, release, or escape of gas into the air shall be prima facie evidence of unreasonable waste.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3301 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3301.

3301.  Whenever the supervisor finds that it is in the interest of the protection of oil or gas from unreasonable waste, the lessors, lessees, operators or other persons owning or controlling royalty or other interests in the separate properties of the same producing or prospective oil or gas field, may, with the approval of the supervisor, enter into agreements for the purpose of bringing about the cooperative development and operation of all or a part or parts of the field, or for the purpose of bringing about the development or operation of all or a part or parts of such field as a unit, or for the purpose of fixing the time, location, and manner of drilling and operating of wells for the production of oil or gas, or providing for the return of gas into the sub-surface of the earth for the purpose of storage or the repressuring of an oil or gas field. Any such agreement shall bind the successors and assigns of the parties thereto in the land affected thereby and shall be enforceable in an action for specific performance.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3302 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3302.

3302.  Upon complaint being made to the director by any person operating in any oil field that there is occurring or threatened an unreasonable waste of gas in any field or fields, and when a petition is filed with the director requesting that a hearing be held to consider whether such waste is occurring or threatened, if it appears to the director that there is probable cause for such complaint, he shall order the supervisor to hold such a hearing and to fix a time and place therefor. A hearing may also be ordered by the director on the application of the supervisor.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3303 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3303.

3303.  Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper printed and published in the county in which the unreasonable waste of gas is alleged to be taking place or to be threatened. The notice shall specify the commonly accepted name or a general description of the field or locality. Publication shall be daily for five days prior to the time of the hearing. The supervisor shall also send notice by mail to each lessor, lessee, or operator, known to him, of any well in the field. Failure to send such written notice shall not affect the validity of the proceeding.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3304 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3304.

3304.  The place of hearing shall be in the county or in any of the counties in which the unreasonable waste of gas is alleged to be taking place or to be threatened.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3305 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3305.

3305.  At the hearing all persons interested are entitled to be heard and may present testimony either oral or written. All witnesses shall be sworn, and a transcript of the proceedings shall be kept by a stenographic reporter. All the provisions of this chapter in reference to the subpoenaing of witnesses and the taking of depositions are applicable to the hearing before the supervisor. On the request of the supervisor, a hearing officer in the Office of Administrative Hearings may assist and rule upon legal matters, but such officer shall not make the determination specified in Section 3306.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 183, Sec. 287. Effective January 1, 2005.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3306 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3306.

3306.  Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the supervisor shall determine whether or not there is an unreasonable waste of gas in the field, in existence or threatened, and shall also determine the extent to which the waste of gas, occurring or threatened, is unreasonable.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3307 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3307.

3307.  If it appears that gas is being produced from any oil well or wells in quantities exceeding a reasonable proportion to the amount of oil produced from the same well or wells, even though it is shown that such excess gas is being used in the generation of light, heat, power, or any other industrial purpose, the supervisor shall hold that such excess production of gas is unreasonable waste.(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1670.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3308 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3308.

3308.  If the waste of gas is found to be unreasonable, an order shall be made by the supervisor directing that the unreasonable waste of gas be discontinued or refrained from to the extent stated in the order. The sale or delivery of gas to another by a lessor, lessee, or operator shall be no defense, excuse, or reason for any lessor, lessee, or operator disobeying an order of the supervisor directing the discontinuance or curtailment of the production of the well or wells from which gas is being produced.(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1670.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3309 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3309.

3309.  A copy of the supervisor’s order shall be posted in a conspicuous place upon the property affected, and the order shall become final 10 days after posting, unless it is appealed from as provided in Section 3350.(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 741, Sec. 15.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3310 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3310.

3310.  When the decision of the supervisor that there is an unreasonable waste of gas occurring or threatened has become final, a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the director. The director, unless the order is complied with voluntarily, shall have proceedings instituted in the name of the people of the State of California to enjoin the unreasonable waste of gas.Such proceedings shall be instituted in the superior court of the county in which is situated the property, or any part thereof, where the wastage is occurring or is threatened. Any number of defendants may be joined in the same proceeding, although their properties and interests may be severally owned and their actual or threatened unreasonable wastage of gas may be separate and distinct, if the actual or threatened unreasonable waste by all of the defendants is in, or with reference to, the same producing or prospective oil or gas field.(Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 765.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3311 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3311.

3311.  In those suits, a restraining order shall not be issued ex parte, and a temporary or permanent injunction issued in the proceedings shall not be refused or dissolved or stayed pending appeal upon the giving of any bond or undertaking or otherwise, but otherwise the procedure, including the procedure on appeal, shall be conformable with the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 525) of Title 7 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.In the proceedings, the findings of the supervisor, unless set aside, or except to the extent modified, by the director, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the unreasonable wastage of gas therein found to be occurring or threatened.(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 714, Sec. 345.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3312 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3312.

3312.  Whenever it appears to the director that the owners, lessors, lessees, or operators of any well or wells producing oil and gas or oil or gas are causing or permitting an unreasonable waste of gas, he may institute, or have proceedings instituted, in the name of the people of the State of California, to enjoin the unreasonable waste of gas regardless of whether proceedings have or have not been instituted under sections 3302 to 3305, and regardless of whether an order has or has not been made therein.Such proceedings shall be instituted in the superior court of the county in which is situated the well or wells, or any thereof, from which the unreasonable waste of gas is occurring. The owners, lessors, lessees, or operators causing or permitting an unreasonable waste of gas in the same oil or gas field may be made parties to the action, although their properties and interests may be separately owned and their unreasonable waste separate and distinct.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3313 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3313.

3313.  In such suits a restraining order shall not be issued ex parte, and a temporary or permanent injunction issued in such proceedings shall not be refused or dissolved or stayed pending appeal upon the giving of any bond or undertaking or otherwise, but otherwise the procedure shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter III of Title VII of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 93.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3314 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5 - Unreasonable Waste of Gas|Section 3314.

3314.  Proceedings to enjoin waste as contemplated by this chapter shall be special proceedings restricted to the single issue whether gas is being produced or is threatened to be produced in unreasonably wasteful quantities and the extent to which such production should be enjoined on behalf of the State of California.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1670.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.

3316.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions and definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this article.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.1.

3316.1.  As used in this article, “person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or other representative of any kind and includes the state and any city, county, city and county, district or any department, agency or instrumentality of the state or of any governmental subdivision whatsoever.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 204. Effective January 1, 1995.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.2.

3316.2.  “Pool” means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure which is separated from any other zone in the structure is a separate pool.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.3.

3316.3.  “Field” means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.4.

3316.4.  “Repressuring operations” means gas injection operations, water injection operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other operations intended primarily to arrest or ameliorate subsidence, or to restore or increase the pressure in a pool, or to avoid or minimize a reduction of pressure within a pool.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.5.

3316.5.  “Subsidence” means sinking, lowering, collapsing, compaction or other movement of the land whether covered by water or not.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.6.

3316.6.  “Unit area” means all or part of a pool or pools included within the area embraced by a unit created pursuant to an order of the supervisor as provided in Section 3322, or created by a unit agreement voluntarily entered into.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.7.

3316.7.  “Unit production” means all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of the order of the supervisor creating the unit, or from the effective date of a unit agreement approved by the supervisor.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.8.

3316.8.  “Fieldwide repressuring plan” means a plan based upon a competent engineering study or studies, prepared by a petroleum engineer licensed by the State, of all the pools in a field, designed so as to provide for a program of pressure restoration or maintenance as to most effectively arrest or ameliorate subsidence with respect to those land areas referred to in Section 3315.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.9.

3316.9.  “Unit agreement” means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement, any unit operating agreement, consent agreement and other agreement entered into in connection with and supplemental to such unit agreement, but shall not include any preliminary agreement confined to effectuating any exchange of interests in tracts of land which the parties to such preliminary agreement may desire.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.10 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.10.

3316.10.  “Increased production” means that portion of the oil or gas produced from all wells bottomed within a unit area, or within any other area where the supervisor finds repressuring operations feasible, during any year over and above the oil or gas that would have been produced from all wells bottomed within the same area during the identical year at the projected rate of decline for the wells in the absence of repressuring operations conducted pursuant to this article.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.11 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.11.

3316.11.  “Working interest” means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement or otherwise, under which the owner of such interest has the right to drill for, develop and produce oil and gas. A working interest shall be deemed vested in the owner thereof even though his right to drill or produce may be delegated to an operator under a drilling and operating agreement, unit agreement, or other type of operating agreement.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.12 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.12.

3316.12.  “Working interest owner” means a person owning a working interest.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.13 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.13.

3316.13.  “Royalty interest” means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof other than a working interest.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)
CA Pub Res Code § 3316.14 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS|CHAPTER 1 - Oil and Gas Conservation|ARTICLE 5.5 - Subsidence|Section 3316.14.

3316.14.  “Royalty interest owner” means a person owning a royalty interest.(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)