Board Agenda for September 29, 2011
THE BOARD WILL ATTEND THE UINTAH COUNTY ENERGY SUMMIT ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011, AT THE WESTERN PARK CONFERENCE CENTER, 302 EAST 200 SOUTH, IN VERNAL, UTAH.
A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011, AT THE UINTAH BASIN APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE, MULTIPURPOSE ROOM, 450NORTH 2000 WEST, VERNAL, UTAH.
THE DIVISION OF OIL, GAS AND MINING WILL CONDUCT A BRIEFING SESSION AT 8:00AM:
1.Utah Supreme Court Decision Affecting Right to Condemn Land for Oil and
Gas Development
2.Commencement of Informal Rulemaking Process
- Oil and Gas Program; R649-9:Waste Management and Disposal
3.Proposed Board Hearing Schedule for Year 2012
4.Other
5.Next Month’s Agenda and Division Calendar
6.Opportunity for Public Comment
THE BOARD WILL HEAR THE FOLLOWING MATTERS AT 9:00 AM:
1.Docket No. 2010-026 Cause No. C/015/0032F – In The Matter of the Request for Agency Action of GENWAL RESOURCES, INC., Petitioner and Permittee; Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, Respondent – Request for Board Review of Division Order DO10A, Requiring Bonding for the Perpetual Treatment of Mine Water Discharge at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah.
(Continued from August 24, 2011 to the September 29, 2011 Board Hearing. This matter is expected to be continued to the October 26, 2011 Board Hearing.)
2.Docket No. 2011-011 Cause No. 272-02 – In the Matter of the Request for Agency Action of BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY for an Order to force pool the interests of all owners refusing or failing to bear their proportionate share of the of the costs of drilling and producing operations located in the SW¼SE¼, NW¼SW¼ and the S½SW¼ of Section 10, Township 5 South, Range 4 West, USM, Duchesne County, Utah.
(Continued from August 24, 2011 to the September 29, 2011 Board Hearing.)
3.Docket No. 2011-014 Cause No. RMNRL-2011-02 – In the Matter of Formal RULEMAKING to Amend the Minerals Regulatory Program R647 Rules Resulting from SB 282 and SB 15 from 2011 Legislature.
(Continued from the August Board Hearing. Board will accept public comment on September 29, 2011.)
4.Docket No. 2011-015 Cause No. 173-25 – In the Matter of the Request for Agency Action of Kerr-Mcgee Oil & Gas Onshore LP for an Order Suspending Application of the Board's Orders in Cause Nos. 173-24 and 210-05 and Utah Admin. Code Rules R649-3-2, R649-3-10 and R649-3-11 (1) and (2) Insofar as they Pertain to Lands within the 2011 Expansion of the Natural Buttes Federal Exploratory Unit, Covering Portions of Townships 9 South, Range 20 East, and 10 South, Ranges 20 through 22 East, SLM, Uintah County, Utah.
(Continued from August 24, 2011 to the September 29, 2011 Board Hearing.)
5.Docket No. 2011-016 Cause No. 222-15 – In the Matter of the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining's Notice of Agency Action for an Order forfeiting to the State of Utah all Interest in the Certificates of Deposit #9398350612, #9398350620, #9398350596, and #9398350604 being held by Wells Fargo Bank for and on behalf of the State of Utah as Surety for the Plugging and Abandonment of the following wells operated by North American Energy, LLC: SVA Unit #23-33-2119, State MSC 35-1, Cactus Rose MSC 2-1, And Cactus Rose 16-11-2118; all in Grand County, Utah.
6.Docket No. 2011-017 Cause No. UIC-378.1 – In the Matter of the Application of Integrated Water Management (IWM), LLC, for Administrative Approval of the IWM SWD 3-30 B4 SWD Well located in Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 4 West, Duchesne, UT as a Class II Injection Well.
(This matter is expected to be withdrawn.)
(Copies of the agenda are available at and at the administrative offices.)
Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons requiring auxiliary communicative aids and services to enable them toparticipate in this hearing should call Julie Ann Carter at (801) 538-5277, at least three working days prior to the hearing.