2010 Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine
Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation
Subchapter 6 - Underground Storage of Gas
§ 15-72-603 - Public interest and welfare -- Authority of commission.

15-72-603. Public interest and welfare -- Authority of commission.

(a) The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more readily available and economical our natural gas resources to the domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers of this state, and which provides a better year-round market to the various gas fields, and promotes the public interest and welfare of this state.

(b) Therefore, in the manner hereinafter provided, the Oil and Gas Commission may find and determine that the underground storage of natural gas as hereinbefore defined is in the public interest.