20 AAC 25.537 - Public and confidential information
(a) The commission
will routinely make available to the public, by means of records or reports, in
its offices or elsewhere, or by means of regular publication, the following
information:
(1) surface and proposed
bottom-hole locations of each well after approval of the Permit to Drill (Form
10-401);
(2) total depth,
bottom-hole location and well status after the Well Completion or Recompletion
Report and Log (Form 10-407) is filed;
(3) all reports and information required by
this chapter for development and service wells;
(4) regular production data and regular
production reports, as required to be filed by the operator each
month;
(5) injection data and
injection reports, as required to be filed by the operator each month;
and
(6) all data filed on a well as
required by this chapter upon expiration of the confidential period described
in (d) of this section.
(b) Engineering, geologic, geophysical, and
other commercial information not required by this chapter, but voluntarily
filed with the commission will be kept confidential if the person filing the
information so requests. This subsection does not apply to information
submitted in a public hearing under
20 AAC 25.540.
(c) In this section, "well status" means the
classification of a well as oil, gas, service, suspended, shut-in, or
abandoned.
(d) Except as provided
by (a) of this section, the reports and information required by this chapter to
be filed by the operator for exploratory and stratigraphic test wells will be
kept confidential by the commission for 24 months following the 30-day filing
period after well completion, suspension, or abandonment unless the operator
gives written and unrestricted permission to release all of the reports and
information at an earlier date. Upon notification that the commissioner of the
Department of Natural Resources has made a finding that the required reports
and information from a well contain significant information relating to the
valuation of unleased land in the same vicinity, the commission will hold the
reports and information confidential beyond the 24-month period and until
notified by the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources to release
the reports and information.
(e)
Notwithstanding (b) or (d) of this section, any information obtained or used by
the commission in the administration of its program under
42 U.S.C.
300h-4 (Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as
amended, 42 U.S.C.
300 f - 300j)
(1) will be made available to the public
unless the material has been claimed confidential and has been determined by
the commission to be entitled to confidential treatment; claims of
confidentiality will be denied for the following:
(A) the name and address of any applicant for
underground injection of fluids, and
(B) information that deals with the
existence, absence, or level of contaminants in freshwater;
(2) will be made available to the
United States Environmental Protection Agency upon request; if the information
has been submitted to the commission under claim of confidentiality, the
commission will submit that claim to the United States Environmental Protection
Agency when providing the information.
Notes
Authority:AS 31.05.030
AS 31.05.035
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