Bill Text: PA HB2608 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for well location restrictions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [HB2608 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2608-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3989
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2608 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY MUNDY, BOBACK, BRADFORD, BRIGGS, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CURRY, DePASQUALE, DeWEESE, EACHUS, FLECK, FREEMAN, GALLOWAY, GEORGE, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HANNA, HELM, HOUGHTON, JOSEPHS, KESSLER, KORTZ, KULA, LEVDANSKY, MAHER, MATZIE, McILVAINE SMITH, MELIO, MIRABITO, MURPHY, PARKER, PASHINSKI, PAYTON, SAMUELSON, SANTARSIERO, SANTONI, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, STABACK, STURLA, VITALI, WAGNER, WANSACZ, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK, DeLUCA, HORNAMAN AND READSHAW, JUNE 24, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JUNE 24, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 19, 1984 (P.L.1140, No.223),
entitled "An act relating to the development of oil and gas
and coal; imposing duties and powers on the Department of
Environmental Resources; imposing notification requirements
to protect landowners; and providing for definitions, for
various requirements to regulate the drilling and operation
of oil and gas wells, for gas storage reservoirs, for various
reporting requirements, including certain requirements
concerning the operation of coal mines, for well permits, for
well registration, for distance requirements, for well casing
requirements, for safety device requirements, for storage
reservoir obligations, for well bonding requirements, for a
Well Plugging Restricted Revenue Account to enforce oil and
gas well plugging requirements, for the creation of an Oil
and Gas Technical Advisory Board, for oil and gas well
inspections, for enforcement and for penalties," further
providing for well location restrictions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 205 of the act of December 19, 1984
(P.L.1140, No.223), known as the Oil and Gas Act, is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 205. Well location restrictions.
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(b.1) No well may be drilled within the surface or
subsurface area of, or using hydraulic fracturing or horizontal
drilling within 2,500 feet of, a water well, lake, reservoir,
impoundment, spring, or the permitted intake of a stream that
serves as a primary source of supply for a community water
system as defined in the act of May 1, 1984 (P.L.206, No.43),
known as the Pennsylvania Safe Drinking Water Act. The
department shall not waive these restrictions.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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