Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XIX - Office of Conservation-General Operations › Subpart 17 - Procedures for Hearings and Unit and Survey Plat Requirements › Chapter 39 - Hearings › Section XIX-3917 - Waiver of Pre-Application Notice

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. If circumstances indicate that the 20 day
				  delay required by the pre-application procedure in the filing of an application
				  for a public hearing would result in undue hardship to the applicant, the
				  commissioner may waive the pre-application notice requirements, and
				  §3907 of these
				  rules shall not apply.
B. However
				  each such waiver must be expressly approved by the Office of Conservation, and
				  in no instance shall the Office of Conservation approve a waiver under these
				  rules unless there can be compliance with the 15 day provision of §3937
C. The hearing application under
				  this procedure shall be filed with the commissioner (in duplicate), with a copy
				  to the district manager and to each interested owner and represented party.
				  Interested owners and represented parties need not be furnished the lists
				  described in §3917. C.2 and 3, but the applicant upon request shall
				  furnish copies of said lists to the requesting party. In addition to outlining
				  the purpose thereof, the application shall include or be accompanied by the
				  following:
1. a statement to the effect that
				  the Office of Conservation has waived the pre-application notice requirements
				  and that §3907 of these
				  rules shall not apply;
2. a list of
				  the names and addresses of interested owners and represented parties who are
				  being furnished with a copy of the application;
3. a list of the names and addresses of all
				  interested parties who are known to the applicant after reasonable search. In
				  addition to the publication of the legal notice by the commissioner in the
				  official state journal, the applicant shall provide for posting of a copy of
				  the legal notice of the hearing and unit plat or plats in a prominent place in
				  the area affected and publication of a copy of the legal notice in a newspaper
				  published in the vicinity or general area of the affected field at least 15
				  days before the hearing. The applicant shall mail copies of the legal notice to
				  all interested owners, represented parties and interested parties and a copy of
				  the unit 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;
4. a statement that a reasonable effort has
				  been made to obtain a complete list of interested parties, interested owners
				  and represented parties;
5. a day,
				  time and place for a pre-hearing conference which shall be scheduled for not
				  less than 10 calendar days after the date of the application. Any such
				  conference shall be held within the state of Louisiana (unless mutually agreed
				  otherwise among all interested owners and represented parties), in a city
				  reasonably convenient to the persons involved;
6. a unit plat, if units are involved,
				  prepared in accordance with all applicable memoranda and the procedure for
				  assigning nomenclature of LAC 43:XIX.103, with any geological bases for any
				  unit boundary labeled thereon, and the other items required by statute or by
				  the commissioner. A reasonable effort shall be made to prepare the plat in
				  sufficient detail to enable affected parties to determine the location of their
				  lands;
7. a definition of the sand
				  proposed for unitization with such sand defined in each reservoir thereof by
				  reference to well log measurements.