TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 40

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES ACT

42-4007.  Well abandonment or discontinuance of operation — Notice. At least five (5) days before any operation to abandon any well or injection well is commenced, the owner or operator thereof shall submit in writing a notification of intention to abandon to the director for approval, except that it shall be permissible to give oral notice followed within twenty-four (24) hours by written confirmation. Such notification shall clearly state the condition of the well or injection well, and the proposed method of abandonment. No person shall commence any operation to abandon a well or an injection well without approval by the director.

History:

[42-4007, added 1972, ch. 301, sec. 8, p. 749; am. 1974, ch. 20, sec. 55, p. 533.]