| Planning | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Emergency Response Plan: Operator will provide the County with an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) to address all potential emergencies that may be associated with an oil and gas facility. Operator shall also provide a copy of such plan to all emergency service providers that would respond to such emergencies. A "will-serve" letter must be obtained from the appropriate emergency provider(s).
Fencing: A fencing plan will be determined with surface owner input.
Painting of oil and gas facilities: except for such facilities that must be painted a certain color for safety reasons, operator agrees to paint all new (post-mou) production facilities with uniform, non-contrasting, non-reflective color tones and with colors matched to, but slightly darker than, surrounding landscapes. |
| Traffic control | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Private Roads: the operator agrees to construct (unless already constructed) and maintain an access road designed to support an imposed load of 75,000 pounds that will accommodate emergency response vehicles such as, but not limited to, law enforcement, emergency command vehicles (cars/suvs), ambulances, hazardous materials response vehicles, water tenders, and fire apparatus during construction and operation of new tank batteries (post mou), new drilling activity and reworks or recompletions of existing wells, unless a local fire department or fire district agrees to a different or lesser standard or waived by the County. With respect to new roads to new tank batteries, the Operator agrees to construct access roads at least sixteen (16') feet wide with at least four ( 4") inch road base. Best efforts will be made to improve inadequate access to existing tank battery sites identified by the fire district or County, based on service calls and demonstrated problems of accessing the site. Operator and County agree that spot inspections of access roads may be done by the County and/or appropriate emergency response agency, at such County or agency's sole risk and expense, to insure that emergency access in accordance with this section is maintained.
Public Roads: Operator agrees to apply for and obtain access permits for its oil and gas facilities from the Public Works and Development Department. Requirements for the access permit may include the following: a) access location providing for a safe entrance/exit and utilization of main roadways to minimize impact /conflict with residents on local roadways; b) haul route and traffic data; c) pre/post inspection of roadways used by the Operator; d) collateral or bond to insure that road damage caused by the Operator is repaired; e) dust control (material used for dust control must be pre-approved by the County); f) road maintenance agreement during drilling phase; and g) payment of all applicable filing fees. |
| Material Handling and Spill Prevention | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Spill and release management: any spill or release that is reportable to the commission shall be simultaneously reported to the county. |
| Construction | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Berm Construction: Tank berms will be constructed of steel rings with a synthetic or engineered liner and designed to contain 150% of the capacity of the largest tank. Secondary containment devices will be sufficiently impervious to contain any spilled or released material. Berms shall be inspected by Operator on a weekly basis for evidence of discharge. Berms shall be inspected within 48 hours of a precipitation event.
Construction: Operator will provide notice to COGCC 48 hours prior to commencing construction of this Oil and Gas Location via Form 42.
Erosion Control: When required by the County's Grading and Erosion/ Sedimentation ("GESC") Regulations, the Operator agrees to apply for and obtain a GESC permit through the Public Works and Development Department. The County will permit the Operator to submit a standard GESC plan applicable to all of the Operator's oil and gas facilities in cases where GESC collateral is required, and the County will also accept a blanket collateral in a form and amount acceptable to the County so that separate collateral will not be required for each oil and gas facility with a GESC permit. A general performance bond in a form and amount acceptable to the County will also be allowed to guarantee performance under sections 10 and 11 of this MOU.
Floodplain: Any disturbance within a floodplain will be allowed if the Operator has obtained a Floodplain Development Permit from the County and has complied with all the County's legally adopted floodplain and engineering regulations. Pits will not be allowed in floodplains, as defined in the County's Stormwater Management Manual. |
| Noise mitigation | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Noise: operator shall provide and post 24-hour, 7 days per week contact information to deal with all noise complaints arising from operator's oil and gas facilities. |
| Emissions mitigation | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Green Completions - Emission Control Systems: Test separators and associated flow lines and sand traps shall be installed on-site to accommodate green completions techniques pursuant to COGCC Rules where reservoir pressure, formation productivity, and wellbore conditions are likely to enable the well to be capable of naturally flowing hydrocarbon gas in flammable or greater concentrations at a stabilized rate in excess of five hundred (500) MCFD to the surface against an induced surface backpressure of five hundred (500) psig or sales line pressure, whichever is greater. In the absence of a viable gas sales line, the flowback gas shall be thermally oxidized in an emissions control device (ECD), which will be installed and kept in operable condition for least the first 90-days of production pursuant to CDPHE rules. This ECD shall have an adequate capacity for 1.5 times the largest flowback within a 10 mile radius, will be flanged to route gas to other or permanent oxidizing equipment and shall be provided with the equipment needed to maintain combustions where non-combustible gases are present. All salable quality gas shall be directed to the sales line as soon as practicable or shut in and conserved. |
| Odor mitigation | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Odors and Dust: Oil & gas facilities and equipment shall be operated in such a manner that odors and dust do not constitute a nuisance or hazard to public welfare. |
| Drilling/Completion Operations | Form: (02 )
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9/29/2016 | Alternative Logging Program - Multi-Well Pad: One of the first wells drilled on the pad will be logged with open-hole Resistivity Log and Gamma Ray Log from the kick-off point into the surface casing. All wells on the pad will have a cement bond log with gamma-ray run on production casing (or on intermediate casing if production liner is run) into the surface casing. The horizontal portion of every well will be logged with a measured-while-drilling gamma-ray log. The Form 5, Completion Report, for each well on the pad will list all logs run and have those logs attached.The Form 5 for a well without open-hole logs shall clearly state “No open-hole logs were run” and shall clearly identify (by API#, well name & number) the well in which open-hole logs were run. |