La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § IX-105

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 8, August 20, 2024

Section IX-105 - Applications

A. Any interested person requesting the classification of a well pursuant to the authority granted to the commissioner by Section 503 of the NGPA in order to determine the applicable category for any such well pursuant to Title 1 of said NGPA shall file a written application made upon forms prescribed by the Office of Conservation, Department of Natural Resources, State of Louisiana.

1. The original and two copies of such application shall be filed with the commissioner at the district office for the district in which the subject well is located. Each application must be completed in conformance with the commissioner's rules and regulations as well as the rules and regulations of the FERC before the application will be considered by the commissioner. An application may be amended, supplemented or withdrawn by the applicant at any time prior to the commissioner's determination.

B. An individual application shall be completed as to each well for which a status determination is being requested, and if more than one status determination is being requested as to a single well than all forms and information required for each request determination shall be submitted jointly under one application with notice to the commissioner that multiple determinations for subject well are being sought under the application.

C. If the person filing the application is an individual, the filing shall be signed by such individual, or in the case of a minor or other legally disabled person, his duly qualified legal representative. If the person making such filing is a corporation, partnership, or trust, the filing shall be signed by a responsible official of the corporation, a general partner of the partnership, or the trustee of the trust. In the case of any other legal entity, the operator of the well may sign the application.

D. Applicant shall certify that he has delivered or mailed a copy of the completed FERC Form No. 121 to the purchaser(s), if any, pursuant to Section 274. 201(d) of the FERC regulations.

E. Applicant shall certify that all owner(s), if any, have been given notice that an application for well status determination has been filed. Since all natural gas produced from a well is of the same classification, the commissioner of conservation will not process an application for well status determination for any well from more than one interested person.

F. Applicant shall include a filing fee of $100 per application to cover administrative costs.

G. Upon receipt of an application for well status determination, the commissioner shall notify the applicant of the receipt of the application and, should the application be incomplete in any respect, indicate the items to be filed which would make the application complete. Upon a receipt of a complete application, the commissioner shall assign a docket number to the application and notify the applicant of the hearing date and docket number.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § IX-105

Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 6:176 (May 1980).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:501.