ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE NO. SF0015
ENROLLED ACT NO. 1, SENATE
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 GENERAL SESSION
1
AN ACT relating to oil and gas; amending the authority of
the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission to regulate
noncommercial reserve pits, produced water retention pits
and emergency overflow pits as specified; and providing for
an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 30-5-104(d)(vi)(A) is amended to
read:
30-5-104. Oil and gas conservation commission; powers
and duties; investigations; rules and regulations.
(d) The commission has authority:
(vi) To regulate, excluding discharges permitted
under the national pollutant discharge elimination system,
the:
(A) Location, construction, operation and
reclamation of all noncommercial reserve pits and produced
water retention and emergency overflow pits used solely for
the storage, treatment and disposal of drilling fluids,
produced waters, emergency overflow wastes or other oil
field wastes associated with the maintenance and operation
of oil and gas exploration and production wells
unit or communitized area
the contamination of the waters of the state; ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE NO. SF0015
ENROLLED ACT NO. 1, SENATE
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 GENERAL SESSION
2Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2025.
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Speaker of the HousePresident of the SenateGovernorTIME APPROVED: _________DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.
Chief Clerk