Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 3132
Underground Injection Control
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Current — January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2015
(a) Before submitting the proposal for an exempted aquifer determination to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the division shall notify the relevant policy committees of the Legislature of the exemption proposal.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on March 1, 2019, and, as of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Carbon dioxide capture project” means a project that uses a process to separate carbon dioxide from industrial, commercial, or energy-related sources, other than oil or gas production from a well, and produces a concentrated fluid of carbon dioxide with the intent of preventing emission of the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
(2) “Carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration project” means a carbon dioxide capture project or carbon dioxide removal project, that seeks to provide for the long-term isolation or utilization of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through storage in a geologic formation.
(3) “Carbon dioxide removal project” means a project that uses a process to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
(4) “Concentrated carbon dioxide fluid” means a fluid that contains concentrated carbon dioxide that is proportionately greater than the ambient atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.
(b) An operator shall not inject a concentrated carbon dioxide fluid produced by a carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration project into a Class II well for purposes of enhanced oil recovery, including the facilitation of enhanced oil recovery from another well.
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