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2025 Utah Code
Title 40 - Mines and Mining
Chapter 11 - Geologic Carbon Storage
Section 4 - Board and division permit authority.
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UT Code § 40-11-4 (2025)
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Effective 5/1/2024
40-11-4. Board and division permit authority.
To the extent required to authorize and issue permits and to regulate geologic carbon sequestration, the board and the division shall have authority:
Amended by Chapter 79, 2024 General Session
40-11-4. Board and division permit authority.
To the extent required to authorize and issue permits and to regulate geologic carbon sequestration, the board and the division shall have authority:
- (1)over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce this chapter and this chapter's objectives;
- (2)to regulate activities relating to a storage facility, including construction, operation, and closure;
- (3)to enter, at a reasonable time and manner, a storage facility to:
- (a)inspect equipment and surface storage facilities;
- (b)observe, monitor, and investigate operations; or
- (c)inspect records the board requires the operators maintain at the storage facility;
- (4)to require that storage operators provide assurance, including bonds, that money is available to fulfill the storage operator's duties;
- (5)to exercise continuing jurisdiction over storage operators and storage facilities, including the authority, after notice and hearing, to amend provisions in a permit and to revoke a permit;
- (6)to dissolve or change the boundaries of any unit that is within or near a storage reservoir's boundaries; and
- (7)to oversee the expenditure of money from the fund to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
Amended by Chapter 79, 2024 General Session
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