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The Commission will consider a Motion to Continue the Produced Water Rulemaking, Docket No. 240900229 at tomorrow's December 3, 2024 hearing at 9:00 a.m. The motion can be viewed HERE.

Kerr McGee submitted a Form 4 Sundry to request changes to the Tulip OGDP #487706. This notice will be posted for 14 days pursuant to Rule 301.c. The Form 4 document #404004565 is available HERE.

ECMC announced today at a public hearing that two environmental consultants submitted falsified laboratory data reports to ECMC. ECMC has preliminarily determined that the data manipulation affected soil, groundwater, and inorganic and organic contaminant data for approximately 350 oil and gas locations in Weld County. Click HERE for the full announcement.

At the 11/15/25 hearing, the Commission stayed the OGDP pending a full alternative location analysis of Proposed Alternate Location #4. Stayed means that the Commission has indefinitely halted the proceedings until the Operator can provide further analysis. Use the efiling portal to view the full docket. Information about Location 4 is available in the location documents (click ALA Narrative Summary).

ECMC adopted Cumulative Impacts and Enhanced Systems and Practices Rules on 10/15/2024. Cumulative impacts refer to the combined effects on public health and the environment from the incremental impacts of a proposed oil and gas operation, alongside those from past, present, and foreseeable future developments. The rules will be submitted to the Secretary of State to be published in the register soon. The rules go into effect 12/15/2024.

The approval process for Field Inspection Resolution Reports (FIRRs) has changed. Information about this change is available by clicking here. For questions please contact Mike Leonard.

Revised Draft Rules for the 2024 Produced Water Rulemaking (Docket No. 240900229) are available for review. The only change is the addition of Rule 905.c.(6).C. No dates or deadlines changed. The Revised Draft Rules are available HERE. To be a party to the Rulemaking please sign up HERE by 5 p.m. on 10/04/24. Para ser parte del proceso de elaboración de normas, regístrese Aqui.

Evergreen Natural Resources is applying for an Underground Injection Control Aquifer Exemption in Las Animas County. Please click HERE to view the public notice. Public comments can be delivered by filling out THIS form.

The Deep Geothermal Rules were published in the Colorado Register today, September 10, 2024. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 24-4-103 (5), "A rule shall become effective twenty days after publication of the rule as finally adopted. Once a rule becomes effective, the rule-making process shall be deemed to have become final agency action for judicial review purposes." Therefore, the Deep Geothermal Rules will become effective September 30, 2024.

The Revised Draft SBP for the 2024 Cumulative Impacts and Enhanced Systems and Practices Rulemaking is now available for review. The draft SBP is available HERE. A comparison document displaying changes and commentary from the previous version is available HERE.