KY HB386 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 26 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-04 - returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 26 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-04 - returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 to require notice and method of notice of high-volume horizontal fracturing; require baseline water quality testing and exemption from requirements; require information disclosures to the cabinet for a vendor or service provider conducting high-volume horizontal fracturing treatments; create an exemption for disclosure of trade secrets; require vendors to provide information to chemical disclosure registry unless protected by trade secret status and provide method for claiming trade secret status; require release by director or vendor to health professionals under specified conditions and with confidentiality agreement; require release by director to deal with emergency spill or discharge and require nondisclosure of information further and with specific procedure; provide that information disclosed not be deemed publicly available or a waiver of trade secret claim; require notification to parties by the cabinet if the cabinet receives a request for chemicals under the Open Records Act and provide a procedure for notification of vendors and operators who assert confidential treatment status; clarify that the review of a determination of release of information under the Open Records Act not be a part of judicial review; create the Kentucky Abandoned Storage Tank Reclamation Program and define when a tank is deemed abandoned and eligible for the program; specify the purpose of the program and create the Kentucky abandoned storage tank reclamation fund; identify the expenses that can be paid for out-of-fund moneys; allow the cabinet to contract for services and enter into agreements for services; create a right of entry to inspect or to conduct work on an abandoned storage tank; specify procedures for notice before entering lands; authorize the cabinet to recover costs for removal and remediation of an abandoned storage tank from owners or responsible parties; amend KRS 353.180 to make internal reference corrections; amend KRS 353.510 to amend the definitions; amend 353.590 to establish permit fees for vertical deep and horizontal deep wells; establish bonds for deep wells and minimum bonds; specify how bonds will be conditioned; add blanket bonds; amend KRS 353.592 to correct internal references; amend KRS 353.5901 to require a reclamation plan rather than a proposal; clarify the contents of the reclamation plan; require review and approval of the plan prior to permit issuance; allow for a waiver of the mediation fee for a landowner with proof of a financial inability to pay; amend KRS 353.651 to regulate the drilling units of vertical deep and horizontal deep wells and the pooling for deep wells and change the 1/8 royalty to prevailing royalty and overriding royalty to 3 times the share of costs payable or charged for deep wells; amend KRS 353.652 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 353.730 and 353.737 to correct internal references; add noncodified section naming the act as the Kentucky Oil and Gas Regulatory Modernization Act.
Title
AN ACT relating to oil and gas production and reclamation.
Sponsors
| Rep. Rocky Adkins [D] | Rep. Jim Gooch [R] | Rep. Jeff Greer [D] | Rep. Rita Smart [D] |
| Rep. Gregory Stumbo [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-04 | Senate | returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S) |
| 2015-03-04 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2015-03-04 | Senate | taken from Natural Resources & Energy (S) |
| 2015-03-02 | Senate | to Natural Resources & Energy (S) |
| 2015-02-26 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-02-25 | House | 3rd reading, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute |
| 2015-02-24 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 25, 2015 |
| 2015-02-24 | House | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute as Consent Bill |
| 2015-02-23 | House | returned to Natural Resources & Environment (H) |
| 2015-02-23 | House | 1st reading |
| 2015-02-23 | House | taken from Natural Resources & Environment (H) |
| 2015-02-23 | House | posting waived |
| 2015-02-10 | House | posted in committee |
| 2015-02-10 | House | to Natural Resources & Environment (H) |
| 2015-02-09 | House | introduced in House |
