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2014 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS
CHAPTER 4 - Geothermal Resources
3714

CA Pub Res Code § 3714 (2014) What's This?

The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall so supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance and abandonment of geothermal resources wells as to encourage the greatest ultimate economic recovery of geothermal resources, to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources, and to prevent damage to, and waste from, the underground geothermal deposits, and to prevent damage to underground and surface waters suitable for irrigation or domestic purposes by reason of the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of geothermal resources wells.

(Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 117.)

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