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Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-627 - Plan Approvals

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A. Within 60
				  days of the conclusion of the hearing, or within such longer time as the court
				  allows, the Commissioner of Conservation shall either approve a submitted plan
				  as the most feasible plan or structure a plan which, based on the evidence
				  submitted on the record, the commissioner determines to be the most feasible
				  plan and shall further issue written reasons for the plan he approves or
				  structures.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-629 - Rehearing

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A. Requests for
				  rehearing by any party shall not be considered by the Commissioner of
				  Conservation.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-631 - Timeliness of Filings

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A. All notices
				  and filings provided for herein shall be presumed to be timely when the
				  postmark date or actual date of receipt, if hand delivered, of the copy
				  received by the commissioner complies with appropriate delays herein provided.
				  Copies required to be provided to the parties shall be deposited on the same
				  date in the United States mail, properly stamped and addressed, or, if
				  telegraphic or wireless communication is used, dispatched on that date by the
				  transmitting party.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-633 - Notice of Hearings and Continued Hearings

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A. In addition to the publication of the
				  legal notice by the commissioner in the official state journal, the responsible
				  party or parties shall provide for the posting of a copy of the legal notice of
				  the hearing and a plat or plats in a prominent place in the area affected, and
				  shall cause to be published at least 15 days before the hearing a copy of the
				  legal notice in a newspaper published in the vicinity or general area of the
				  affected tract or tracts. The responsible party or parties shall mail copies of
				  the legal notice to all parties and a copy of the plat or plats shall be
				  included with the legal notice, if said parties have not already been furnished
				  same. Evidence to establish posting, publishing and mailing shall be submitted
				  at the hearing.
B. When a hearing
				  is opened and continued, the notice given for the original hearing shall be
				  applicable to the continued hearing, if the hearing officer at the time of
				  granting the continuance designates the new time, date and place of the
				  continued hearing. In all other instances of a continued hearing, the
				  responsible party or parties shall at least 15 days before the hearing provide
				  notice of the continued hearing by posting such notice in a prominent place in
				  the area affected, by publishing such notice in a newspaper published in the
				  vicinity or general area of the affected tract or tracts and by mailing such
				  notice to all parties.
C. In no
				  case shall a hearing be held more than 60 days from the date of the final
				  submission without the express approval of the trial court.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-635 - Rules of Hearing Conduct and Procedure

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A. The responsible party or parties shall
				  first present the entire scientific, technical or other bases of their plan or
				  plan(s).
B. Any litigation party or
				  parties who have filed a comment in support of any responsible party's plan or
				  plans shall then present the entire scientific, technical or other bases for
				  their support and shall do so immediately after the responsible party or
				  parties have completed their presentations.
C. Any litigation party who has submitted a
				  plan or plans shall then present the entire scientific, technical or other
				  bases thereof. If any litigation party has filed a comment in opposition to any
				  responsible party's plan or plans, such party shall then present their entire
				  scientific, technical or other bases for such opposition. Any litigation party
				  who has filed a comment in support of a litigation party's plan shall then
				  present the entire scientific, technical or other bases for such
				  support.
D. Each responsible party
				  shall then have the opportunity to provide rebuttal evidence in response to the
				  opposition to its plan or plans, or in response to any plan offered by any
				  litigation party.
E. The litigation
				  party filing the plan shall then have the opportunity to provide rebuttal
				  evidence in response to the opposition to its plan.
F. All rebuttal scientific, technical or
				  other testimony, shall be strictly limited to a refutation of the matters
				  covered by the opponents.
G. Any
				  witness shall be subject to examination by the commissioner or any member of
				  his staff and by no more than two representatives of a party. Cross-examination
				  shall be conducted in accordance with the following guidelines.
1. Cross-examination shall be limited to
				  questions concerning the testimony and exhibits presented by the witness,
				  testimony and exhibits presented by any other witness and the credibility of
				  the witness.
2. Matters peculiarly
				  within the knowledge of the cross-examiner or his witnesses shall be presented
				  by them on direct examination, and there shall be no attempt to establish such
				  matters by cross-examination.
3.
				  Cross-examination shall be conducted in a polite and courteous manner without
				  reference to personalities of the witness or the party represented by the
				  witness.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-637 - Penalty for Non-Compliance

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A.
				  Failure to comply with the provisions of or the spirit of these rules of
				  procedure may prevent plan, comment or response from being advertised or heard,
				  or may prevent a party from presenting evidence at the hearing, but any
				  approval or structure of a plan issued by the commissioner shall not be invalid
				  by operation of this rule.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-639 - Time of Commencement

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A. The
				  procedures set forth in these rules shall commence upon final submission date
				  as provided in these rules.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 1 - Statewide Order No. 29-B › Chapter 6 - Procedures for Hearings and the Submission and Approval of Plans for the Remediation of E and P Sites in Accordance with R.S. 30:29 › Section XIX-641 - Coverage of Rules

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A. Nothing
				  contained in these rules shall in any way limit the authority of the
				  commissioner of conservation to independently initiate any civil or
				  administrative proceeding or to initiate any civil enforcement
				  action.
B. Nothing in these rules
				  shall in any way limit the Office of Conservation from independently responding
				  to an inquiry or request by a landowner or any other person for investigation
				  of alleged environmental damage.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 7 - Fees › Section XIX-705 - Failure to Comply

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A. Operators of
				  operations and activities defined in
				  §701 are
				  required to timely comply with this order. Failure to comply by the due date of
				  any required fee payment will subject the operator to civil penalties provided
				  in title 30 of the
Louisiana Revised Statutes
of 1950,
				  including but not limited to
				  R.S.
				  30:18.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:21 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 7 - Fees › Section XIX-707 - Severability and Effective Date

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A.
				  The fees set forth in
				  §703 are hereby
				  adopted as individual and independent rules comprising this body of rules
				  designated as Statewide Order No. 29-R-19/20 and Forward and if any such
				  individual fee is held to be unacceptable, pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  49:968(H)(2), or held to be
				  invalid by a court of law, then such unacceptability or invalidity shall not
				  affect the other provisions of this order which can be given effect without the
				  unacceptable or invalid provisions, and to that end the provisions of this
				  order are severable.
B. This order
				  (Statewide Order No. 29-R-19/20 and Forward) supersedes Statewide Order No.
				  29-R-18/19 and any amendments thereof.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:21 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-801 - Purpose

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A. The purpose of
				  this Chapter is to provide a comprehensive compilation of procedural
				  requirements for permitting, construction, operation, maintenance, plugging and
				  abandonment of alternative source wells installed for production of subsurface
				  water containing greater than 10,000 mg/l total dissolved solids
				  (TDS).
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-803 - Applicability

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A. The procedural
				  requirements herein are intended for alternative source wells installed to
				  produce water from water-bearing strata other than ground water aquifers,
				  underground sources of drinking water (USDWs), or at depths or locations within
				  ground water aquifers containing water greater than 10,000 mg/l TDS. Specific
				  procedures are provided for the installation of alternative source wells with
				  well screens installed in strata that is hydraulically connected and in
				  communication with a ground water aquifer or USDW, and for installations not
				  hydraulically connected and in communication with a ground water aquifer or
				  USDW. All other water wells installed to produce water from ground water
				  aquifers or USDWs must comply with the notification, construction and
				  registration requirements of LAC 43 :VI. Subpart 1. Chapter 1 and LAC 56:Part
				  I, as applicable. In the event a well is permitted and installed pursuant to
				  this Chapter and, after well completion, analytical results of water withdrawn
				  from the well are below 10,000 mg/l TDS, the requirements of this Chapter shall
				  remain in effect throughout the life of the well. Nothing in this Chapter shall
				  supersede, eliminate or alter operator responsibilities to comply with
				  applicable Louisiana Mineral Code and/or other applicable requirements of LAC
				  43:XIX. Subpart 1 (Statewide Order No. 29-B).
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-807 - General Requirements

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A. All ASWs
				  shall be permitted, constructed, maintained and plugged and abandoned in
				  accordance with the requirements of this Chapter.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-809 - Application to Drill

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A. The drilling
				  permit application requirements included in this section shall apply to all
				  Type A and B ASWs.
B. All
				  applications for permits to drill alternative source wells shall be made on
				  Form MD-10-R or revisions thereof, and mailed or delivered to the district
				  office with one copy mailed or delivered to the departments Environmental
				  Division. These applications, in duplicate, shall be accompanied by three
				  copies of the location plat, preferably drawn to a scale of 1000 feet to the
				  inch. The plats shall definitely show the amount and location of the acreage
				  with reference to quarter-section corners, or other established survey points.
				  There shall also be shown all pertinent lease and property lines, leases,
				  offset wells, and the location and distance from the well to the nearest
				  shoulder of any interstate highway within the boundaries of the plat. Plats
				  must have well locations certifications either written on or attached to the
				  well location plats and this certification must be signed by a registered civil
				  engineer, qualified surveyor or a qualified engineer regularly employed by the
				  applicant. If possible the application card shall give the name and address of
				  the drilling contractor, otherwise the information, as soon as determined,
				  shall be supplied by letter to the district manager.
1. Applicants that receive a drilling permit
				  for an alternative source well located within 1,000 feet of an interstate
				  highway shall furnish a copy of the approved drilling permit and the certified
				  location plat to the appropriate state and local authorities, including all
				  emergency responders.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-811 - ASW-Type B Notification Requirements

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A. In addition to the drilling permit
				  application requirements of LAC 43:XIX.809 above, Type B ASW operators must
				  comply with the following notification requirements.
1. Operators proposing to install Type B ASWs
				  must provide to the departments Environmental Division at least 90 days prior
				  to well installation scientifically sound and objective information from a
				  Louisiana licensed professional engineer or geologist certifying and
				  definitively demonstrating that proposed water production from such wells will
				  only yield water containing greater than 10,000 mg/l TDS.
2. In the absence of satisfactory information
				  verifying compliance with LAC 43:XIX.811.A above, prior to, or after
				  installation and/or operation of a Type B ASW, the Type B ASW operator shall
				  provide to the departments Environmental Division a properly completed Water
				  Well Notification Form (Form GWR-01) at least 60 days prior to well
				  installation if not already installed, otherwise as required by the Department,
				  for review and imposition of any restrictions or other action deemed necessary
				  by the Department pursuant to LAC 43:VI.705 and LAC
				  43:VI.707.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-813 - All Other Applications

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A. All
				  applications for permits to rework, repair (except ordinary maintenance
				  operations), abandon (plug and abandon), acidize, deepen, perforate, perforate
				  and squeeze, plug (plug back), plug and perforate, plug back and sidetrack,
				  plug and squeeze, pull casing, side-track, squeeze, squeeze and perforate,
				  workover, cement casing or liner as workover feature, or when a well is to be
				  killed or directionally drilled, shall be made to the district office on Form
				  DM-4R, as revised or replaced, and a proper permit shall be received from the
				  district manager before work is started. Upon permit approval and prior to
				  performing any permitted work activities, the well operator shall provide
				  written notification of the permitted activity to the departments Environmental
				  Division. A description of the work done under the above cited work permits
				  shall be furnished on the reverse side of the Well History and Work Resume
				  Report (Form WH), which form shall be filed with the departments district
				  office in which the well is located within 20 days after the permitted work
				  activity is completed. At least 12 hours prior notice of the proposed
				  operations shall be given the district manager and/or an offset operator in
				  order that one of them may witness the work. If the district manager fails to
				  appear within 12 hours, the work may be witnessed by the offset operator, but
				  failing in this, the work need not be held up longer than 12 hours. This Rule
				  shall not deter an operator from taking immediate action in an emergency to
				  prevent damage.
B. When a service
				  company, other than the drilling contractor, cements, perforates or acidizes,
				  either before or after completion of an alternative source well, the service
				  company shall furnish the district manager with legible exact copies of reports
				  furnished the owner of the well.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-815 - Financial Security

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A. Unless
				  otherwise provided by the statutes, rules and regulations of the Office of
				  Conservation, financial security shall be required by the operator of record
				  (operator) of an alternative source well pursuant to LAC 43:XIX.104.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-817 - Records

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A. Electrical logs,
				  when run, shall be submitted in an electronic format to the Office of
				  Conservation in accordance with LAC 43:XIX.107.
B. At the request of the commissioner or his
				  agent, the district office shall be supplied with available field maps showing
				  lease lines and well locations for all producing areas within the district
				  pursuant to LAC 43:XIX.107.A.
C. A
				  properly completed Well History and Work Resume Report (Form WH) shall be
				  timely filed with the district office in which the alternative source well is
				  located within 20 days after completion of the well. This report shall be filed
				  on forms furnished by the Department or on like forms as reproduced by the
				  operator. Upon filing of Form WH, the well operator shall provide written
				  notification to the departments Environmental Division to inform of well
				  completion.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-819 - Construction, Operation and Maintenance

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A. All alternative source wells shall be
				  constructed, operated and maintained in a safe and environmentally protective
				  manner at all times in accordance with the casing requirements of LAC
				  43:XIX.109, diverter systems and blowout preventer requirements of LAC
				  43:XIX.111, casing head requirements of LAC 43:XIX.113, and at the discretion
				  of the district manager.
B. Each
				  alternative source well operator shall so conduct his operations and maintain
				  his equipment as to reduce to a minimum the danger of explosion or fire and
				  consequent waste, and implement all applicable requirements of LAC
				  43:XIX.115.
C. The inspectors and
				  engineers of the Office of Conservation shall have access to the mud records of
				  any drilling well, except those records which pertain to special muds and
				  special work with respect to patentable rights, and shall be allowed to conduct
				  any essential test or tests on the mud used in the drilling of a well. When the
				  conditions and tests indicate a need for a change in the mud or drilling fluid
				  program in order to insure proper control of the well, the district manager
				  shall require the operator or company to use due diligence in correcting any
				  objectionable conditions.
D. The
				  district manager shall be notified immediately by the new operator whenever a
				  change of operator occurs. This must be accomplished by submitting Office of
				  Conservation Form MD-10-RA (application for amended permit to drill for
				  minerals) to reflect the new operator. Upon filing of Form MD-10-RA, the well
				  operator shall provide written notification to the departments Environmental
				  Division to inform of the change of operator.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-821 - Plugging and Abandonment

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A. Plugging
				  and abandonment of all alternative source wells shall be conducted in a safe
				  and environmentally protective manner in accordance with the applicable
				  plugging and abandonment requirements of LAC 43:XIX.137 and at the discretion
				  of the district manager.
B. The
				  responsibility of plugging any well over which the commissioner of conservation
				  has jurisdiction shall be the owner(s) of record.
1. In the event any owner(s) responsible for
				  plugging any well fails to do so, and after a diligent effort has been made by
				  the department to have said well plugged, the commissioner may call a public
				  hearing to show cause why said well was not plugged.
2. The commissioner or his agent may require
				  the posting of a reasonable bond with good and sufficient surety in order to
				  secure the performance of the work of proper abandonment.
3. The district manager shall be notified
				  immediately by the new operator whenever a change of operator occurs. This must
				  be accomplished by submitting Office of Conservation Form MD-10-RA (application
				  for amended permit to drill for minerals) to reflect the new operator. Upon
				  filing of Form MD-10-RA, the well operator shall provide written notification
				  to the departments Environmental Division to inform of the change of
				  operator.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-823 - Exceptions and Hearings

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A. If any
				  operator can show to the commissioner that the drilling and producing methods
				  herein prescribed or the particular method by him prescribed for securing tests
				  of wells, or any other part of this order, as applies to his well or wells,
				  result in waste or as to such operator are unreasonable, the commissioner may
				  enter such an order, as a special exception to the aforesaid rules and
				  regulations, as will prevent such waste or eliminate such unreasonable
				  restraint, as may result from the application of the aforesaid rules and
				  regulations to the well or wells of such operators; provided, however, that
				  before any operator shall be allowed the benefit of an order granting an
				  exception as authorized by this Section, such operator must establish that such
				  exception, if granted, will not result in waste in the field as a whole or give
				  him an inequitable and unfair advantage over another operator or other
				  operators in the field. No special exception will be granted except upon
				  written application, fully stating the alleged facts, which shall be the
				  subject of a hearing to be held not earlier than 10 days after filing of the
				  application. Prior to the hearing upon such application, at least 10 days
				  notice thereof shall be given by publication to all operators in the field. In
				  addition to said notice by publication, adjacent operators where appropriate
				  may be given at least 10 days notice of said hearing by personal service, or by
				  registered mail.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-825 - Application of Special Field Orders

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A.
				  This order shall be cumulative of, and in addition to, all special orders,
				  rules and regulations affecting the drilling and production of alternative
				  source wells, as heretofore promulgated. In case of any conflict between this
				  order and the special orders on specific fields, said special orders on
				  specific fields shall govern.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-827 - Drilling Alternative Source Wells

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A. The possession of a Louisiana Water Well
				  Contractors License is not required for the installation of alternative source
				  wells. Drillers of alternative source wells shall have the professional
				  knowledge and expertise to successfully complete all aspects of installation of
				  alternative source wells in a safe and environmentally protective manner in
				  accordance with the requirements of this Chapter.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 2 - Statewide Order No. 29-R › Chapter 8 - Alternative Source Well Requirements › Section XIX-829 - Reporting Volumes of Source Water Produced

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A. All volumes of water produced from an
				  alternative source well being used for hydraulic fracture stimulation purposes
				  shall be recorded on Form WH-1 Supplemental Page 3 in accordance with LAC
				  43:XIX.118.
B. The alternative
				  source well shall be identified by the serial number and recorded on Form WH-1
				  Supplemental Page 3 under "OTHER WATER SOURCE."
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-901 - Scope

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A. An order
				  providing rules and regulations governing and requiring the keeping of records
				  and the filing of reports by producers, transporters, storers, and refiners of
				  oil, and concerning the production, transportation, storing and refining of oil
				  in the state of Louisiana.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-903 - Definitions

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A. Unless the
				  context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section shall have the
				  following meanings when found in this Order:
Barrel
or
Barrel of Oil
-
					 forty-two United States gallons of oil at a test of 60º F with deductions
					 for the full percent of basic sediment, water and other impurities present,
					 ascertained by centrifugal or other recognized and customary tests.
Field
- the general area which is underlaid
					 or appears to be underlaid by at least one pool or reservoir of oil as
					 designated by monthly proration schedules issued by the Office of Conservation
					 of the state of Louisiana.
Lease Tank
- the tank or other receptacle
					 into which oil is produced either directly from a well or from a well through
					 gas separator, gun barrel or similar equipment.
Month
and
Calendar Month
-
					 the period or interval of time from 7 a.m. on the first day of any month of the
					 calendar to 7 a.m. of the first day of the next succeeding month of the
					 calendar.
Person, Producer, Oil, Illegal Oil, and
					 Product
- the meaning prescribed for each of said words as defined in
					 R.S.
					 30:3.
Refiner
- every person who has any part in
					 the control or management of any operation by which the physical or chemical
					 characteristics of oil or products are changed, but exclusive of the operations
					 of passing oil through separators to remove gas, placing oil in settling tanks
					 to remove basic sediment and water, dehydrating oil, and generally cleaning and
					 purifying oil.
Storer
- every person as herein defined who
					 stores, terminals, retains in custody under warehouse or storage agreements or
					 contracts, oil which comes to rest in his tank or other receptacle under
					 control of said storer, but excluding the ordinary lease stocks of
					 producers.
Transporter
- includes any common carrier
					 by pipe line, barge, boat or other water conveyance or truck or other
					 conveyance except railroads, and any other person transporting oil by pipe
					 line, barge, boat or other water conveyance, or truck and other
					 conveyance.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-905 - Applicability

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A. The provisions
				  of this order shall extend and apply to all oil produced from each and every
				  well within the state of Louisiana and all oil transported, stored, or refined
				  within the state of Louisiana, and to every producer, transporter, storer and
				  refiner in the state of Louisiana.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-909 - Form R-1

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A. The Monthly
				  Producer's Crude Oil and/or Condensate Report, Form R-1 Revised or most current
				  revision thereof, is hereby adopted and made a part of this Order by
				  reference.
B. Each producer of oil
				  in the state of Louisiana, and each producer of condensate from a gas well,
				  where produced in liquid form at the wellhead by ordinary production methods or
				  as
Calculated Theoretical Condensate
, defined as the amount of
				  condensate (allocated back to leases) that normally would be separated by
				  conventional methods from natural gas well volumes flowing full stream directly
				  to a plant without any condensate separation having been made at lease or a
				  plant, shall furnish for each calendar month a Monthly Producer's Crude Oil and
				  Condensate Report, Form R-1 Revised or most current revision thereof, setting
				  forth complete information and data indicated by such forms respecting oil
				  produced from every lease operated by said producer in the state of Louisiana,
				  and respecting condensate produced from gas wells at the wellhead in liquid
				  form by ordinary production methods from each lease operated by said producer
				  in the state of Louisiana. Such report for each month shall be prepared and
				  filed according to instructions on the form on or before the twenty-fifth day
				  of the next succeeding month.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-911 - Form R-2

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A. The
				  Transporter's and Storer's Monthly Report, Form R-2 or most current revision
				  thereof, is hereby adopted and made a part of this Order by
				  reference.
B. Each transporter of
				  oil within the state of Louisiana shall furnish for each calendar month a
				  Transporter's and Storer's Monthly Report, Form R-2 or most current revision
				  thereof, containing complete information and data indicated by such form
				  respecting stocks of oil on hand and all movements of oil by pipeline within
				  the state of Louisiana and all movements of oil by water craft, or by trucks or
				  other conveyances except railroad, from leases to storers or refiners; between
				  transporters within the state; between storers and refiners within the
				  state.
C. Each storer of oil within
				  the state of Louisiana shall furnish for each calendar month a Transporter's
				  and Storer's Monthly Report, Form R-2 or most current revision thereof,
				  containing complete information and data indicated by such form respecting the
				  storage of oil within the state of Louisiana.
D. The transporters and storers reports for
				  each month shall be prepared and filed according to instructions on the form,
				  on or before the twenty-fifth day of the next succeeding month.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-913 - Form R-3

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The Refiner's
				  Monthly Report, Form R-3 or most current revision thereof, is hereby adopted
				  and made a part of this Order by reference.
B. Each refiner of oil within the state of
				  Louisiana shall furnish for each calendar month a Refiner's Monthly Report,
				  Form R-3 or most current revision thereof, containing the information and data
				  indicated by such form, respecting oil and products involved in such refiner's
				  operations during each month. Such report for each month shall be prepared and
				  filed according to instructions on the form on or before the twenty-fifth day
				  of the next succeeding month.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-915 - Units and Method for Calculation of Quantities of Oil in Tanks

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A. All quantities
				  included in the reports provided for in this Order shall be reported in barrels
				  computed from 100 percent tank tables and based upon actual physical
				  gauges.
B. All reports provided for
				  in this Order shall be verified by affidavit in the form or forms indicated,
				  and any reports not so verified shall not be taken as filed in compliance with
				  this Order.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-917 - Record Keeping

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A. All
				  producers, transporters, storers and refiners within the state of Louisiana
				  shall make and keep appropriate books and records covering their operations in
				  Louisiana from which they may be able to make and substantiate the reports
				  required by this Order.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 3 - Statewide Order No. 25 › Chapter 9 - Reporting › Section XIX-919 - Effect on Overall Authority of the Commissioner of Conservation

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A. This order shall
				  not be taken or construed to limit or restrict the authority of Commissioner of
				  Conservation to require the furnishing of such additional reports, data or
				  other information relative to the production and processing of gas in this
				  state as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable, either generally or
				  specially, for the prevention of waste and the conservation of natural
				  resources in this state; nor to limit or restrict the authority of the
				  Commissioner of Conservation to waive the filing of any report or reports
				  otherwise required hereunder in any special instance wherein the Commissioner
				  of Conservation finds that such waiver is necessary to prevent undue hardship
				  or imposition.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislative Session of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 4 - Statewide Order No. 29-B-a › Chapter 11 - Required Use of Storm Chokes › Section XIX-1101 - Scope

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A. Order
				  establishing rules and regulations concerning the required use of storm chokes
				  to prevent blowouts or uncontrolled flow in the case of damage to surface
				  equipment.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with Act 157 of the Legislature of
					 1940.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 4 - Statewide Order No. 29-B-a › Chapter 11 - Required Use of Storm Chokes › Section XIX-1103 - Applicability

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A. All flowing
				  wells with a surface pressure in excess of 100 pounds, falling within the
				  following categories, shall be equipped with storm chokes:
1. any locations inaccessible during periods
				  of storm and/or floods, including spillways;
2. located in bodies of water being actively
				  navigated;
3. located in wildlife
				  refuges and/or game preserves;
4.
				  located within 660 feet of railroads, ship channels, and other actively
				  navigated bodies of water;
5.
				  located within 660 feet of state and federal highways in Southeast Louisiana,
				  in that area East of a North-South line drawn through New Iberia and South of
				  an East-West line through Opelousas;
6. located within 660 feet of state and
				  federal highways in Northeast Louisiana, in that area bounded on the West by
				  the Ouachita River, on the North by the Arkansas-Louisiana line, on the East by
				  the Mississippi River, and on the South by the Black and Red Rivers;
7. located within 660 feet of the following
				  highways:
a. U.S. Highway 71 between
				  Alexandria and Krotz Springs;
b.
				  U.S. Highway 190 between Opelousas and Krotz Springs;
c. U.S. Highway 90 between Lake Charles and
				  the Sabine River;
8.
				  located within the corporate limits of any city, town, village, or other
				  municipality.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 4 - Statewide Order No. 29-B-a › Chapter 11 - Required Use of Storm Chokes › Section XIX-1105 - Waivers

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A. Onshore Wells.
				  Where the use of storm chokes would unduly interfere with normal operation of a
				  well, the Commissioner of Conservation may, upon submission of pertinent data,
				  in writing, waive the requirements of this order.
B. Offshore Wells
1. The district manager, upon submission of
				  pertinent data, in writing explaining the efforts made to overcome the
				  particular difficulties encountered, may waive the use of a subsurface safety
				  valve under the following circumstances, and may, in his discretion, require in
				  lieu thereof a surface safety valve:
a. where
				  sand is produced to such an extent or in such a manner as to tend to plug the
				  tubing or make inoperative the subsurface safety valve;
b. when the flowing pressure of the well is
				  in excess of 100 psi but is inadequate to activate the subsurface safety
				  valve;
c. where flow rate
				  fluctuations or water production difficulties are so severe that the subsurface
				  safety valve would prevent the well from producing at its allowable
				  rate;
d. where mechanical well
				  conditions do not permit the installation of a subsurface safety
				  valve;
e. in such other cases as
				  the district manager may deem necessary to grant an exception.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 5 - Statewide Order No. 29-C-4 › Chapter 13 - Multiple Completions › Section XIX-1301 - Scope

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. This Statewide
				  Order provides rules and regulations governing the multiple completion of wells
				  productive of hydrocarbons from multiple zones in the state of
				  Louisiana.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.
Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 5 - Statewide Order No. 29-C-4 › Chapter 13 - Multiple Completions › Section XIX-1303 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Unless the
				  context otherwise requires, the words defined in this Section shall have the
				  following meaning when found in this Statewide Order.
Commissioner
- the Commissioner of
					 Conservation.
District Manager
- the head of any one of
					 the districts of the state of Louisiana under the Office of Conservation, and
					 specifically, the manager within whose district the well which is subject to an
					 application under the provisions of this Statewide Order is located.
Multiple Completion
- the completion of any
					 well so as to permit simultaneous production from two or more pools while
					 maintaining segregation of each such pool through the single wellbore to the
					 surface. Segregation and simultaneous production of separate intervals within a
					 recognized pool through a single wellbore to the surface shall not be
					 considered a multiple completion.
Owner
- as used herein, shall have the
					 meaning as such term is defined in Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes
					 of 1950.
Pool
- as used herein, shall have the
					 meaning as such term is defined in Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes
					 of 1950.
Selective Completion
- the completion of
					 any well utilizing downhole equipment so as to permit production to be changed
					 from one separate pool to another without the necessity of a workover or
					 additional perforating.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 30:4 et
					 seq.