California Laws: Public Resources Code Sections 3700-3776
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3700
It is hereby found and determined that the people of the State of California have a direct and primary interest in the development of geothermal...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3701
For the purposes of this chapter, "geothermal resources" shall mean geothermal resources as defined in Section 6903 of this code. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3702
For the purposes of this chapter, "geothermal resources area" means the same general surface area which is underlaid, or reasonably appears to be underlaid, by...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3703
"Well" means any well for the discovery of geothermal resources or any well on lands producing geothermal resources or reasonably presumed to contain geothermal resources,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3703.1
"Low-temperature geothermal resources" are fluids that have value by virtue of the heat contained therein and have a temperature that is not more than the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3704
"Department", in reference to the government of this state, means the Department of Conservation. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3705
"Division," in reference to the government of this state, means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3706
"Director" means the Director of Conservation. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3707
"Supervisor" means the State Oil and Gas Supervisor. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3708
"Person" includes any individual, firm, association, corporation, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3709
"Operator" means any person drilling, maintaining, operating, pumping, or in control of any well. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3710
"Owner" includes "operator" when any well is operated or has been operated or is about to be operated by any person other than the owner....
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3711
"Operator" includes "owner" when any well is or has been or is about to be operated by or under the direction of the owner. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3712
This chapter shall be liberally construed to meet its purposes, and the director and the supervisor, acting with the approval of the director, shall have...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3714
The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall so supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance and abandonment of geothermal resources wells as to encourage the greatest ultimate...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3714.5
The supervisor, pursuant to regulation, shall designate geothermal resources areas and may exclude from the operation of this chapter certain wells within such geothermal resources...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3715
The supervisor shall also supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells so as to permit the owners or operators of such wells to...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3715.5
For the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (commencing with Section 21000), the division shall be the lead agency as defined in Section 21067...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3716
The district deputy in each district shall collect all information regarding the wells in the district necessary for the proper supervision of the wells. The...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3717
Upon request, the supervisor shall notify the Department of Fish and Game and the California regional water quality control board in the area affected of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3718
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as superseding any of the provisions of Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3719
The supervisor shall publish any publications, reports, maps, statistical data or other printed matter relating to geothermal resources, for which there may be public demand....
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3720
For the purposes of this chapter, the state may be divided into one or more districts, the boundaries of which shall be fixed by the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3721
Every owner or operator of any well shall designate an agent, giving his or her address, who resides in this state, to receive and accept...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3722
The owner or operator of any well shall notify the supervisor or the district deputy, in writing, in such form as the supervisor or the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3723
Every person who acquires the ownership or operation of any well, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or otherwise, shall, within 30 days after...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3723.5
Any person who acquires the ownership or operation of any well or wells, whether by purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange, or otherwise, shall, within 30...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724
The owner or operator of any well, before commencing the original drilling of a well or the redrilling of an abandoned well, shall file with...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.1
An owner or operator may submit to the supervisor for approval a written program to drill a shallow well or wells for temperature-gradient monitoring purposes....
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.2
If, after study by the supervisor, it is determined that one or all of the wells proposed pursuant to Section 3724.1 require additional supervision, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.3
Drilling of program wells, as described in Section 3724.1, shall not commence until approval is given by the supervisor or the district deputy. If the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.35
The supervisor may adopt regulations governing intermediate and deep wells drilled for temperature-gradient monitoring purposes. The regulations may specify the content of any written program...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.4
The proposal, and all other data submitted as required by Sections 3724.1, 3724.2, and 3724.3, shall be maintained in a confidential status as provided for...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.5
To provide funds for the supervision of geothermal resource wells, the supervisor shall establish an annual well fee, and penalties for late payment, to be...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3724.6
The permit application fees established in Sections 3724 and 3724.1 shall be made payable by the operator to the Department of Conservation, and the annual...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3725
Every person who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, maintaining, or abandoning of any well, except a low-temperature geothermal well, shall file with the supervisor...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3725.5
Any person who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, maintaining, or abandoning of any low-temperature well, as defined in Section 3703.1, shall file with the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3726
Any person who engages in the drilling, redrilling, deepening, maintaining, or abandoning of one or more wells at any time, may file with the supervisor...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3728
Any individual or blanket indemnity bond issued in compliance with this chapter may, with the consent of the supervisor, be terminated and canceled and the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3728.5
In lieu of the bond required by Sections 3723.5, 3725, 3725.5, and 3726, a deposit may, with the written approval of the supervisor, be given...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3729
For the purposes of Section 3728, a well is properly abandoned when it has been shown to the satisfaction of the supervisor that all proper...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3730
The owner or operator of any well shall keep, or cause to be kept, a careful and accurate log, core record, and history of the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3731
The log shall show the character and depth of the formation passed through or encountered in the drilling of the well, the amount, size and...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3732
The core record shall show the depth, character, and fluid content of cores obtained, so far as determined. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3733
The history shall show the location and amount of sidetracked casings, tools, or other material, the depth and quantity of cement in cement plugs, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3734
The log shall be kept in the local office of the owner or operator and, together with the tour reports of the owner or operator,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3735
Upon the completion or abandonment of any well or upon the suspension of operations upon any well, true copies of the log, core record, history,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3736
The owner or operator of any well, or his local agent, shall file with the supervisor a copy of the log, history, and core record,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3737
A well is completed, for the purposes of this chapter, 30 days after it has commenced to produce a geothermal resource unless drilling operations are...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3739
Any person engaged in operating any wells wherein high pressures are known to exist, and any person drilling for geothermal resources in any district where...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3740
The owner or operator of any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain geothermal resources shall properly case it with watertight and adequate...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3741
The supervisor shall require such tests or remedial work as in his judgment are necessary to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3742.2
Any person having drilled a well or wells on state, federal or private lands which are producing or, according to the supervisor, are capable of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3743
Whenever the supervisor or a district deputy makes or gives any written direction concerning the drilling, testing, or other operations in any well drilled, in...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3744
(a) Within 30 days from the date of service of an order made pursuant to Section 3743, the operator shall commence in good faith the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3745
The owner of any well producing geothermal resources or injecting fluids associated with geothermal operations shall file with the supervisor, on or before the 30th...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3746
Before abandoning any well in accordance with methods approved by the supervisor or the district deputy, and under his direction, the owner or operator shall...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3747
Before any work is commenced to abandon any well, the owner or operator shall give written notice to the supervisor or the district deputy of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3748
The supervisor, or the district deputy, shall before the proposed date of commencing work to abandon such well, furnish to the owner or operator either:...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3749
If the supervisor or the district deputy fails to give the owner or operator a written report or request within the specified time, such failure...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3750
Within 60 days after the completion of abandonment of any well, the owner or operator of the well shall make, in such form as the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3751
No person, whether as principal, agent, servant, employee, or otherwise, shall remove the casing or any portion thereof, from any well without first giving written...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3752
(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all the well records, including production records, of any owner or operator which are filed pursuant...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3753
Upon receipt by the supervisor or by a district deputy of a written complaint, alleging a condition in violation of this chapter, specifically setting forth...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3754
Any owner or operator, or employee thereof, who refuses to permit the supervisor or the district deputy, or his or her inspector, to inspect a...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3754.5
(a) Any person who violates this chapter or any regulation implementing this chapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3755
The supervisor or his deputy may order the abandonment of any well that has been deserted whether or not any damage is occurring or threatened...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3756
Whenever the supervisor finds that it is in the interest of the protection of geothermal resources from unreasonable waste, the lessors, lessees, operators, or other...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3757
Any well hereafter drilled for the discovery and production of geothermal resources, which is located within 100 feet of an outer boundary of the parcel...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3757.1
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where a parcel of land contains one acre or more and all or substantially all of the surface...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3757.2
For the purpose of developing low-temperature geothermal resources, the supervisor may approve the exemption of any low-temperature geothermal well from Sections 3721, 3722, 3723, 3723.5,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3758
Where several contiguous parcels of land in one or different ownerships are operated as a single geothermal resources lease or operating unit, the term "outer...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3759
For the purpose of this chapter, an alley which intersects or lies within any block or other subdivision unit is not a public street or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3760
Each day in which the drilling of any well is carried on, or on which it is permitted to produce geothermal resources in violation of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3761
The provisions regarding the location of geothermal resources wells do not apply to any wells producing geothermal resources on the effective date of this act....
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3762
The lessor, lessee, or any operator or any well owner, or the owner of any rig, derrick, or other operating structure, or his local agent,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3764
Within 10 days from the taking of the appeal, 10 days' notice in writing shall be given to the appellant of the time and place...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3765
The director, after hearing, shall affirm, set aside, or modify the order from which the appeal is taken. Within 10 days after hearing the evidence,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3766
The decision of the director may be reviewed by writ of certiorari from the superior court of the county in which the well, or wells,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3767
No new or additional evidence shall be introduced in the court, but the cause shall be heard upon the record of the director. The review...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3768
If a review is not taken within 10 days, or if taken, in case the decision of the director, or, if there is no decision,...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3769
In any proceeding instituted by the supervisor for the purpose of enforcing or carrying out the provisions of this chapter, or for the purpose of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3770
Witnesses shall be entitled to receive the fees and mileage fixed by law in civil causes, payable from the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Administrative Fund....
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3771
In case of the failure or neglect on the part of any person to comply with any order of the supervisor or the director, or...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3772
(a) If any person fails to pay any charge or penalty imposed under this chapter at the time that it becomes due and payable, the...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3772.2
A warrant may be issued by the Controller or his or her duly authorized representative for the collection of any charges, interests and penalty and...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3772.4
The sheriff shall receive, upon the completion of his or her services pursuant to a warrant, and the Controller is authorized to pay to him...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3772.6
In the event that the lien of the charges, penalties or interest attaches to real property from which geothermal energy is extracted and more than...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3773
The Controller shall, on or before the 90th day following the delinquency of any charge, bring an action in the name of the people of...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3774
The Attorney General, as provided in Section 3102 of the Public Resources Code, shall commence and prosecute any such action to final judgment. ...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3775
In such actions the record of charges, or a copy of so much thereof as is applicable, duly certified by the Controller, showing unpaid charges...
- California Laws: Public Resources Code Section 3776
Payment of the penalties and charges, or the amount of the judgment recovered in the action, shall be made to the State Treasurer, and shall...
