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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness;
dissolution of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities.
(a) The use of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized,
provided that the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the
provisions of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage
of gas and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such
boundaries to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose
of insuring the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility
against pollution, invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows:
(1) That the storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal
of gas and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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9-17-154
Section 9-17-154 Eminent domain. (a) Any storage operator is hereby empowered, after
obtaining approval of the board as herein required, to exercise the right of eminent domain
in the manner provided by law, to acquire all surface and subsurface rights and interests
necessary or useful for the purpose of operating the storage facility (including easements
and rights-of-way across lands for transporting, by pipeline or otherwise, gas to and from
said facility) and to exercise eminent domain rights to acquire any hydrocarbons therein,
pursuant to the provisions hereof. Such power shall be exercised under the procedure provided
by Chapter 1A, Title 18. (b) No rights or interests in storage facilities acquired for the
injection, storage and withdrawal of gas by a party who has eminent domain rights under this
act and who has obtained an order from the board under the provisions of Section 9-17-152,
shall be subject to the exercise of any eminent domain rights; and no portion of any salt...
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40-9B-3
Section 40-9B-3 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following words and
phrases mean: (1) ABATE, ABATEMENT. A reduction or elimination of a taxpayer's liability for
tax or payments required to be made in lieu thereof. An abatement of transaction taxes imposed
under Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to be made in lieu thereof, shall relieve
the seller from the obligation to collect and pay over the transaction tax as if the sale
were to a person exempt, to the extent of the abatement, from the transaction tax. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. The definition given in Section 40-18-1. (3) CONSTRUCTION RELATED
TRANSACTION TAXES. The transaction taxes imposed by Chapter 23 of this title, or payments
required to be made in lieu thereof, on tangible personal property and taxable services incorporated
into an industrial development property, the cost of which may be added to capital account
with respect to the property, determined without regard to any rule which...
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9-17-156
Section 9-17-156 Exemption from taxation and certain gas deemed injected. No storage
operator shall be subject to any privilege or other tax on production, severance, extraction
or withdrawal of gas that has been injected into a storage facility when such gas is extracted
or withdrawn from such storage facility, and, specifically, no such gas shall be subject to
taxation under the provisions of Sections 9-17-25 through 9-17-31 or under the provisions
of Article 1, Chapter 20 of Title 40. All hydrocarbons extracted or withdrawn from the underground
reservoir which were not injected, including any oil, condensate or natural gas liquids, shall
be subject to applicable severance taxes under Sections 9-17-25 through 9-17-31 and under
Article I, Chapter 20 of Title 40. (Acts 1992, No. 92-564, p. 1172, §7.)...
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9-17-1
Section 9-17-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The State Oil and Gas Board created by this
article. (2) DEVELOPED AREA or DEVELOPED UNIT. A drainage unit having a well completed thereon
which is capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities; however, in the event it is
shown and the board finds that a part of any unit is nonproductive, then the developed part
of the unit shall include only that part found to be productive. (3) DRAINAGE OR PRODUCTION
UNIT. The area in a pool which may be drained efficiently and economically by one well. (4)
DRILLING UNIT. An administrative unit established by the board to provide and allow for the
drilling of a well. Prior to establishment of a field and drainage or production unit within
the field, the board may establish a drilling unit to allow for the drilling of a well in
search of oil and gas. (5) FIELD. The general area which is underlain or appears to be...
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22-35-5
Section 22-35-5 Fee; withdrawals; disposition of funds; liability for clean-up costs;
audit. (a) Every owner of an underground or aboveground storage tank as defined in this chapter
shall pay an Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund fee as established by the
provisions of this chapter to be paid to the department. During the first year next following
October 1, 1988, the amount of the annual Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund
fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100). Thereafter, the commission, upon recommendation of
the management board, shall set such an amount not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150)
per year per regulated tank. Should the fund become depleted due to claims being greater than
amounts provided by tank fees, the commission shall be empowered to make special assessments
of tank fees to protect the financial integrity of the fund. Provided the total tank fees
and special assessments for any fiscal year do not exceed one hundred fifty...
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9-17-12
Section 9-17-12 Limitations on regulations; drilling or production units; producers'
shares. (a) Whether or not the total production from a pool is limited or prorated, no rule,
regulation, or order of the board shall be such in terms or effect that it will do the following:
(1) That it shall be necessary at any time for the producer from or the owner of, a tract
of land in the pool, or an interest associated therewith or derived therefrom, in order that
he or she may obtain the tract's just and equitable share or the just and equitable share
of the interest of the production of such pool, as the share is set forth in this section,
to drill and operate any well or wells on such tract in addition to the well or wells as can
without waste produce the share. (2) As to occasion net drainage from a tract or any interest
associated therewith or derived therefrom, unless there is drilled and operated upon the tract
a well or wells in addition to such well or wells thereon as can without waste...
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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal;
household exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or
municipal governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public
collection and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department.
The county commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal
services by contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house
service or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within
reasonable (generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household
and the wastes managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission
or municipal governing body providing services to the public under this article shall have
the power and authority by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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9-17-150
Section 9-17-150 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms
defined in this section shall have the following meanings when found in this article:
(1) UNDERGROUND STORAGE. Storage in an underground reservoir. (2) GAS. All natural gas, casinghead
gas, and occluded natural gas found in coal beds, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as
oil in Section 9-17-1(3), except and not including liquid petroleum gas. (3) UNDERGROUND
RESERVOIR. Any subsurface sand, stratum, formation, aquifer, or cavity, cavern or void (whether
natural or artificially created), suitable for or capable of being made suitable for the injection
and storage of gas therein and the withdrawal of gas therefrom. (4) STORAGE FACILITY. Any
underground reservoir used or to be used for the underground storage of gas and all surface
and subsurface rights and appurtenances necessary or useful in the operation of the facility
for the underground storage of gas, including any necessary or reasonable...
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9-17-157
Section 9-17-157 Secondary or tertiary operations. Nothing in this article shall apply
to the conduct of gas storage operations as a part of or in conjunction with any secondary
or tertiary recovery methods being utilized with respect to a unit pool in a unit area heretofore
or hereafter established by the board pursuant to Article 3 of this chapter; and the board
shall not allow the creation or operation of a storage facility pursuant to this article within
any underground reservoir where such secondary or tertiary recovery methods are being utilized.
(Acts 1992, No. 92-564, p. 1172, §8.)...
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