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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 585
BY SENATOR MILLS
MINERALS. Requires public notice for certain solution-mined cavern permits in Vermilion
and Iberia parishes. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 30:4(N), relative to solution-mined cavern permits; to require public notice2
for certain solution-mined cavern permits in Vermilion and Iberia parishes; to require3
a public hearing for permits to drill, expand, operate, convert, or alter certain solution4
mined caverns; to provide terms, conditions, and requirements; and to provide for5
related matters.6
Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.7
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:8
Section 1. R.S. 30:4(N) is hereby enacted to read as follows:9
ยง4. Jurisdiction, duties, and powers of the assistant secretary; rules and regulations10
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N. The commissioner shall require by rule that before a permit to drill,12
expand, operate, convert, or alter a solution-mined cavern in Vermilion or13
Iberia parishes is issued, a public hearing shall be held on the application for14
the permit, and shall fix the date, time, and place therefor. The operator or15
owner, prior to such a public hearing, shall give public notice on three separate16
days within a period of thirty days prior to the public hearing, with at least five17 SB NO. 585
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days between each publication notice, both in the official state journal and in1
the official journal of the parish in which the well is to be located. 2
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by McHenry Lee.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 585)
Proposed law requires the commissioner of conservation to promulgate rules for public
hearings before issuing permits to drill, expand, operate, convert, or alter a solution-mined
cavern in Vermilion and Iberia parishes.
Proposed law requires public notice on three separate days within a period of 30 days prior
to the public hearing.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 30:4(N))