Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

Upon the discovery of a leak from an active gas pipeline that is within a sensitive area, as defined in Section 3270.5, the owner or operator of the pipeline shall promptly notify the division and the local health officer, or his or her designee, of the jurisdiction in which the …

The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves “The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas,” and the amendment, extension, and renewal thereof, as set forth in Section 3276. The provisions of the compact shall become the law of this state upon the com…

The provisions of the interstate compact referred to in Section 3275 are as follows: An Agreement to Amend, Extend and Renew the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas Whereas, On the 16th day of February 1935, in the City of Dallas, Texas, there was executed “An Interstate C…

The Governor is hereby designated as the official representative of the State of California on the Interstate Oil Compact Commission provided for in the compact ratified by this article. The Governor shall exercise and perform for the State of California all the powers and duties…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Rapid Disaster Response Act of 2005. (Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 290, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.)

The director shall draw upon eligible federal funds to augment any state funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of replacing the department’s aging helicopter fleet. (Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 290, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.)

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Area” means surface area, and all measurement of distances is on the surface of the land. (b) “Health protection zone” means the area within 3,200 feet of a sensitive receptor. The measurement shall be made from …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1, 2023, the division shall not approve any notice of intention under Section 3203 within a health protection zone, except for approvals of notices of intention necessary for any of the following purposes: (1) To prevent or re…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that development of oil and gas fields into nonfossil fuel production and injection and related uses, including, but not limited to, housing, recreation, and commercial development, may have plugged and abandoned wells or may require existin…

Commencing July 1, 2026, all oil or gas production facilities or wells with a wellhead within a health protection zone shall be in compliance with all of the following requirements: (a) The operator is required to comply with the terms and conditions of all applicable federal, st…

(a) All operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health protection zone shall develop a leak detection and response plan that shall be submitted to the division no later than July 1, 2028, and fully implemented by operators by July 1, 2030. For any leak d…

(a) Before commencing any work that requires a notice of intention under Section 3203 in the health protection zone, the operator shall contact property owners and tenants within a 3,200-foot radius of the wellhead in writing with a record of delivery and offer to sample and test…

(a) Every operator shall submit to the division by July 1, 2025, a sensitive receptor inventory and map that includes the following: (1) A list of all sensitive receptors within 3,200 feet of an operator’s wellheads and production facilities by field. For each sensitive receptor …

(a) Commencing July 1, 2030, and no less than annually on a date to be determined by the division, an operator with a wellhead or other production facility or facilities in a health protection zone shall provide at least the following information to the division by location in a …

Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before July 1, 2030, and annually thereafter, the division shall provide a legislative report to the applicable budget and policy committees regarding the implementation of health protection zones by the division. The …

The division, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board may prescribe, adopt, and enforce any emergency regulations as necessary to implement, administer, and enforce its duties under this article. Any emergency regulation prescribed, adopted, or …

(a) No provision of this article is a limitation on the authority or jurisdiction of the State Water Resources Control Board, the regional water quality control boards, the State Air Resources Board, or local air quality districts. (b) This article does not prohibit a city, count…

The State Air Resources Board, relevant local air districts, the State Water Resources Control Board, and relevant local water quality control boards shall enter into memoranda of understanding with the division to clearly delineate respective responsibilities for implementing an…

This article does not diminish or alter the authority of the supervisor to deny, revoke, or suspend permits to meet the division’s purpose to protect public health and safety and environmental quality, including the reduction and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, or the sup…

It is hereby found and determined: (a) That the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in arresting and ameliorating the subsidence and compaction of land in those areas overlying or immediately adjacent to producing oil or gas pools within the State…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions and definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this article. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

As used in this article, “person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary or other representative of any kind and includes the state and any city, co…

“Increased production” means that portion of the oil or gas produced from all wells bottomed within a unit area, or within any other area where the supervisor finds repressuring operations feasible, during any year over and above the oil or gas that would have been produced from …

“Working interest” means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement or otherwise, under which the owner of such interest has the right to drill for, develop and produce oil and gas. A working interest shall be dee…

“Working interest owner” means a person owning a working interest. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Royalty interest” means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof other than a working interest. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Royalty interest owner” means a person owning a royalty interest. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Unit operator” means the person or persons designated by the unit agreement or in accordance with subdivisions (g) and (j) of Section 3322 as operator or operators of the unitized area. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Land” means both surface and mineral rights. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Pool” means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure which is separated from any other zone in the structure is a separate pool…

“Field” means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Repressuring operations” means gas injection operations, water injection operations, water flooding operations, or any combination thereof, or any other operations intended primarily to arrest or ameliorate subsidence, or to restore or increase the pressure in a pool, or to avoi…

“Subsidence” means sinking, lowering, collapsing, compaction or other movement of the land whether covered by water or not. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Unit area” means all or part of a pool or pools included within the area embraced by a unit created pursuant to an order of the supervisor as provided in Section 3322, or created by a unit agreement voluntarily entered into. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 73.)

“Unit production” means all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of the order of the supervisor creating the unit, or from the effective date of a unit agreement approved by the supervisor. (Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess…

“Fieldwide repressuring plan” means a plan based upon a competent engineering study or studies, prepared by a petroleum engineer licensed by the State, of all the pools in a field, designed so as to provide for a program of pressure restoration or maintenance as to most effective…

“Unit agreement” means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement, any unit operating agreement, consent agreement and other agreement entered into in connection with and supplemental to such unit agreement, but shall not include any preliminary agreement confined to effectu…

This article applies only to lands, referred to in Section 3315, overlying or immediately adjacent to a producing pool or pools, when such lands are subsiding, portions of which lands are subject to threat of inundation from the sea and which subsidence is endangering the life, h…

An order of the supervisor which involves tide or submerged lands which may have been granted to any city, county, or city and county, or district, shall prohibit any impairment of the public trust for commerce, navigation, or fisheries to which the granted lands are subject. The…

(a) The supervisor, upon the supervisor’s own motion, may, or shall, upon the application of any city, county, or city and county, any part of which is in a subsidence area, or any contractor or lessee for the production of oil or gas therefor, or any person having a working inte…

Prior to the adoption of a fieldwide repressuring plan and general specifications of the work to be done thereunder, as provided in Section 3319, the supervisor, upon the application of any city, county, city and county, any part of which is in a subsidence area, or any contracto…

(a) The policy of conducting voluntary repressuring operations in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in order to arrest or ameliorate subsidence, or for any other lawful purpose, whether individually or by unit or co-operative agreement, shall be encouraged by the supervisor. …

(a) An agreement for the management, development and operation of two or more tracts in a pool or pools, or portions thereof, in a field as a unit without regard to separate ownerships for the production of oil and gas, including repressuring operations therein, and for the alloc…

If the supervisor determines that sufficient of the working interest owners and royalty interest owners to make repressuring operations feasible in any pool or pools, or portions thereof, for which a repressuring plan and specifications have been adopted by the supervisor, have n…

In determining, as required by Section 3320.2, whether the estimated cost of initiating and conducting such repressuring operations will exceed the estimated value of the increased production resulting from such operations, the supervisor shall exclude from consideration that por…

In order to encourage the initiation and conduct of repressuring operations with the greatest possible speed in a subsidence area, the State, or any city, or county, city and county, or other political subdivision, deriving revenues from oil or gas produced from tide or submerged…