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2025 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 585
BY REPRESENTATIVE MCCORMICK
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
ENERGY: Requires advance notice to surface and mineral owners prior to permitting or
performing carbon dioxide sequestration activities
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 30:1115, relative to notice requirements for Class V and Class
3 VI permit applications; to require notice to surface and mineral owners of property
4 that may be burdened with a carbon dioxide storage facility; to prohibit carbon
5 dioxide sequestration activity and permitting without providing required notice; to
6 provide for the persons entitled to receive notice; to require notice by certified mail;
7 and to provide for related matters.
8Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 30:1115 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
10 ยง1115. Notifications regarding applications
11 No public or private legal entity shall engage in, nor shall any government
12 agency permit, any activity associated with carbon capture, use, or sequestration
13 unrelated to enhanced oil and gas recovery, without first having delivered advance
14 written notice via United States Postal Service certified mail to any person or persons
15 owning or having any interest, including mineral rights, in property whose planned
16 use includes such activities. Every applicant for a Class VI permit or a Class V
17 permit related to a geologic sequestration project shall comply with the following:
18 A.(1) Within thirty days of receiving notice of an application for a Class VI
19 injection well being In order for an application for a Class VI permit to be deemed
20 administratively complete, the owner or operator shall make a good faith effort to
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1 provide notice of the submission of the application via United States certified mail
2 to all of the following located within the surface or subsurface extent of the area of
3 review delineated in the permit application:
4 (1)(a) The last operator of record for any oil or gas well located within the
5 area of review delineated in the application.
6 (2)(b) Any person known to the applicant after reasonable search that,
7 including owners and operators, acting on behalf of the person, that presently has the
8 right to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate production either for
9 himself or others within the predicted or modeled carbon dioxide plume, as that term
10 is defined in administrative rules and regulations providing for Class VI injection
11 wells. All mineral interest owners known to the applicant after a reasonable search,
12 including owners in interest, mineral servitude owners, mineral lessees, and
13 operators acting on behalf of such mineral interest owners.
14 (c) All surface owners.
15 B.(2) Within ten days of filing an application with the commissioner for a
16 Class V stratigraphic test well, the owner or operator shall make a good faith effort
17 to provide notice of the submission of the application via United States certified mail
18 to all of the following located within five hundred feet of the proposed well:
19 (1)(a) The last operator of record for any oil or gas well located within five
20 hundred feet of the proposed Class V stratigraphic test well location.
21 (2)(b) Any person known to the applicant after reasonable search, including
22 owners and operators, acting on behalf of the person, that presently has the right to
23 drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate production either for himself
24 or others within five hundred feet of the proposed Class V stratigraphic test well
25 location All mineral interest owners known to the applicant after a reasonable
26 search, including owners in interest, mineral servitude owners, mineral lessees, and
27 operators acting on behalf of such mineral interest owners.
28 (c) All surface owners.
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1 (3) Notice to all surface owners as required by this Section may be satisfied
2 by notifying all persons shown on the parish assessor's rolls as the current owner of
3 the surface rights for the land included within the applicable area of required notice.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 585 Original 2025 Regular Session McCormick
Abstract: Prohibits carbon dioxide sequestration activity and permitting unless advance
notice is provided via certified mail to operators of record for existing wells and all
surface and mineral owners within the area of review for a Class VI permit or within
500 feet for a Class V permit.
Present law requires applicants for Class V and Class VI well permits to provide notice of
the application via U.S. mail to the following parties:
(1)The last operator of record for any oil or gas well located within the area of review
for the Class VI permit or within 500 feet of the Class V well.
(2)Any person known to the applicant after reasonable search, including owners and
operators acting on behalf of the person, that presently has the right to drill into and
produce from a pool and to appropriate production either for himself or others within
the Class VI area of review or within 500 feet of the Class V well.
Proposed law adds a prohibition on any carbon dioxide sequestration or carbon dioxide
sequestration permitting without first providing advance written notice via certified mail to
all persons owning property planned to be used in a storage project and all person owning
any interest, including mineral interests in such property.
Proposed law changes present law to require permit applicants to send notice via certified
mail of the permit application to all of the following:
(1)The last operator of record for oil and gas wells within the Class VI area of review
or within 500 feet of the Class V well.
(2)All mineral interest owners within the Class VI area of review or within 500 feet of
the Class V well, including owners in interest, mineral servitude owners, mineral
lessees, and operators acting on behalf of such mineral owners.
(3)All surface owners within the Class VI area of review or within 500 feet of the Class
V well.
Proposed law provides that the permit application can satisfy the requirement to notify all
surface owners by providing notice to all persons listed as current owners by the parish
assessor.
(Amends R.S. 30:1115)
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