Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 3261
Oil and Gas Environmental Remediation Account
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Current — January 1, 2017
As of January 1, 2011
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, including the expenditure limitations of Section 3258, the division shall administer and manage the Acute Orphan Well Account, which is hereby established in the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, including the expenditure limitations of Section 3258, the division shall administer and manage the Oil and Gas Environmental Remediation Account, which is hereby established in the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund.
(b) Except as expressly provided in Section 3264, the account shall only be used, upon appropriation, to plug, abandon, and further secure an acute orphan well. Use of the account is limited to the minimum work necessary to eliminate any immediate risk to life, health, or natural resources.
(b) Moneys in the account shall be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to plug and abandon oil and gas wells, decommission attendant facilities, or otherwise remediate sites that the supervisor determines could pose a danger to life, health, water quality, wildlife, or natural resources if there is no operator determined by the supervisor to be responsible for remediation pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 3237 or who is able to respond.
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