Section 38-22-12 - Environmental protection - Reservoir integrity1. The commission shall take action to ensure that a storage facility does not cause pollution or create a nuisance. For the purposes of this provision and in applying other laws, carbon dioxide stored, and which remains in storage under a commission permit, is not a pollutant nor does it constitute a nuisance.2. The commission's authority in subsection 1 does not limit the jurisdiction held by the department of environmental quality. Nothing else in this chapter limits the jurisdiction held by the department of environmental quality.3. The commission shall take action to ensure that substances that compromise the objectives of this chapter or the integrity of a storage reservoir do not enter a storage reservoir.4. The commission shall take action to ensure that carbon dioxide does not escape from a storage facility.Amended by S.L. 2017, ch. 199 (SB 2327),§ 40, eff. 4/29/2019.