Illinois Administrative Code › Title 44 - GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, GRANTMAKING, PROCUREMENT AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT › Part 610 - PLUGGING AND RESTORATION CONTRACTS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 610.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Bid List" - means the list of prequalified bidders compiled
				  and maintained by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Mines
				  and Minerals.
"CMS" - means the Illinois Department of Central Management
				  Services.
"CMS Standard Procurement Rules" - means the standard
				  procurement rules of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services as
				  codified under 44 Ill. Adm. Code 1.
"Department" - means the Illinois Department of Natural
				  Resources, Office of Mines and Minerals.
"Emergency Clean-up Project" - means an emergency crude oil
				  production facility, or crude oil or saltwater spill clean-up or remediation of
				  conditions endangering public health or safety or contaminating surface waters,
				  ground water, or the surface of the land.
"Emergency Repair Work" - means work to repair or contain
				  leaks of produced fluids from production equipment, pits, or other containment
				  structures that are contaminating surface waters or ground waters, or are
				  flowing in sufficient quantity to create an increasing area of contamination on
				  the surface of the land.
"Emergency Well Plugging" - means the plugging and
				  abandonment of a well or wells that are actively flowing oil or saltwater and
				  are contaminating surface waters or ground waters or are flowing in sufficient
				  quantity to create an increasing area of contamination on the surface of the
				  land, or a well leaking natural gas or hydrogen sulfide gas in sufficient
				  quantity to endanger public safety or create a fire hazard or a non-leaking
				  well that poses an imminent danger to public safety.
"IFB" - means an invitation for bids whereby the Department
				  solicits bids from vendors for the completion of a Standard, Emergency
				  Clean-up, Emergency Repair, or Emergency Well Plugging PRF Project or salvage
				  equipment sale. Bids may be solicited for proposed unit prices, such as for
				  bags of cement and rig time, or for completion of an entire project, or for
				  purchase of salvage production equipment determined to be abandoned in
				  accordance with the Illinois Oil and Gas Act.
"PRF" - means the Department's Plugging and Restoration Fund
				  as established under Section 6 of the Illinois Oil and Gas Act [725 ILCS 225
				  ].
"PRF Project" - means a Standard Project, Emergency Clean-up
				  Project, Emergency Well Plugging, Emergency Repair Work or Salvage Plugging
				  Project funded by the Plugging and Restoration Fund.
"Salvage Plugging and Restoration Project" - means a Plugging
				  and Restoration Project whereby abandoned wells are plugged or well site
				  equipment removed and the site cleaned up for the value of the salvage.
"Salvage Equipment Sale" - means sale, by private means or
				  bid, of salvage production equipment associated with abandoned wells in the
				  Plugging and Restoration Program.
"Secretary of State" - means the Secretary of State of the
				  State of Illinois.
"Standard Plugging and Restoration Project" - means a PRF
				  Project that has been determined by the Department to not be an Emergency
				  Project whereby abandoned wells are plugged following a bidding process.
"Supervisor" - means the Supervisor of the Oil and Gas
				  Division of the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Mines and
				  Minerals.
"Well Site Equipment" - means the equipment including but not
				  limited to an associated tank battery and production facility equipment,
				  hydrocarbons from the well that are stored in tanks located on the lease, and
				  hydrocarbons recovered during the plugging operation may be sold at a public
				  auction or a public or private sale. All well site equipment and hydrocarbons
				  acquired by a person by sale shall be acquired under clear title, subject to
				  any perfected prior legal or equitable claims. [225 ILCS
				  725/19.6(g)(2) ]