Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 178 - Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission › Rule 178.00.15-004 - Rule A2: General Hearing Procedures

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
RULE A-2:
GENERAL HEARING
			 PROCEDURES
a)
		  Execution and Filing
1) All applications,
		  except for applications filed by the Director, shall be in writing and state
		  the interests of the application and the general nature of the order requested.
		  Fourteen copies of the application, including exhibits, shall be filed with the
		  Commission Director's office located in Little Rock, Arkansas ("Director's
		  Office"). The application shall be deemed filed when it is received by the
		  Director's Office.
2) All fourteen
		  (14) copies of the applications, including exhibits, except for those filed by
		  the Director, must be received in the Directors Office at least twenty (20)
		  days prior to the first day of regularly scheduled hearing. If the applicant or
		  his/her representative files an electronic version (a .pdf file labeled by the
		  assigned docket number) of the application, including exhibits, on an
		  electronic storage device approved by the Director a minimum of twenty (20)
		  days prior to the first day of the regularly scheduled hearing, the fourteen
		  (14) copies of the applications, including exhibits must be received in the
		  Director's office eighteen (18) days prior to the first day of the regularly
		  scheduled hearing.
3) Every
		  application shall be signed by the applicant or his/her representative and
		  his/her address shall be stated thereon. The signature of the applicant or
		  his/her representative constitutes a certificate by him/her that he/she has
		  read the petition and that to the best of his/her knowledge, information and
		  belief there is good ground to support the same.
4) Unless otherwise provided by General Rule
		  of the Commission, each application, except for applications filed by the
		  Director, shall be accompanied by a five hundred dollar ($500.00) filing fee
		  made payable to the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission.
5) The applicant shall also submit a check
		  payable to the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission in an amount approved by the
		  Commission, not to exceed two dollars ($2.00) per name of persons named in the
		  application, whose address are known as well as addresses for other persons
		  that the applicant seeks to provide a copy of the order. The applicant shall
		  also provide mailing labels for each person named in the application whose
		  address is known, as well as any other person that the applicant seeks to
		  provide a copy of the order. If the address of the person is unknown, the
		  Applicant shall provide a statement to that affect. All mailing labels shall be
		  provided within three (3) days after the date of the hearing.
6) If after the application is filed, and
		  prior to the hearing date, the Director finds the application deficient
		  relative to the requirements of subsections a) 1) through 4) above, the
		  Director shall return the application to the applicant with a statement as to
		  the deficiencies.
7) If after the
		  application is filed, and prior to the hearing date, the Director determines
		  that additional facts, data, records, or other information are necessary to
		  fully evaluate the application, the Director may require the applicant to
		  submit such necessary facts, data, records or other information.
8) Amendments may be filed at the time of the
		  hearing. However, any amendments filed prior to the hearing date shall be
		  submitted at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing date, and contain a
		  written statement or a clear indication as to what the amendment is being
		  amended. Any application that is substantially amended, as determined by the
		  Commission, regardless of the time of the amendment, may be continued until the
		  next hearing of the Commission.