TO: | Honorable Rick Hardcastle, Chair, House Committee on Energy Resources |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB630 by King, Phil (Relating to notice to a surface owner by an oil or gas well operator of the issuance of a permit for certain oil and gas operations. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would require that an oil and gas operator provide written notice to the surface owner of a tract for which the operator has received a permit from the Railroad Commission to drill a new oil or gas well or re-enter a plugged and abandoned oil or gas well with certain exceptions. The Railroad Commission reports that the bill's passage would not result in significant costs to the agency.
Source Agencies: | 455 Railroad Commission
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LBB Staff: | JOB, WK, TL
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