Amending Horizontal Gas Well Control Act

This bill increases the limit of disturbance to 1500 feet from an occupied dwelling, imposes a real-time air, noise, dust and particulate monitoring obligation on the well operator, and requires consideration of the surface property's highest and best use, not actual use, when figuring compensation for reduction in value.

ISSUES: Pure Water

CWV Position: Supports

Status: Introduced 1/12/22; referred to Energy and Manufacturing Committee, then Judiciary Committee