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2016 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 3 - OIL AND GAS
CHAPTER 4 - Geothermal Resources
Section 3729.
CA Pub Res Code § 3729 (2016) What's This?
3729. For the purposes of Section 3728, a well is properly abandoned when it has been shown to the satisfaction of the supervisor that all proper steps have been taken to protect underground or surface water suitable for irrigation or farm or domestic purposes from the infiltration or addition of any detrimental substance, and to prevent the escape of all fluids to the surface.
(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 794.)
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