Alaska Administrative Code
Title 20 - Miscellaneous Boards and Commissions
Chapter 25 - Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Article 6 - General Provisions
20 AAC 25.537 - Public and confidential information
Current through February 27, 2024
(a) The commission will routinely make available to the public, by means of records or reports, in its offices or elsewhere, or by means of regular publication, the following information:
(b) Engineering, geologic, geophysical, and other commercial information not required by this chapter, but voluntarily filed with the commission will be kept confidential if the person filing the information so requests. This subsection does not apply to information submitted in a public hearing under 20 AAC 25.540.
(c) In this section, "well status" means the classification of a well as oil, gas, service, suspended, shut-in, or abandoned.
(d) Except as provided by (a) of this section, the reports and information required by this chapter to be filed by the operator for exploratory and stratigraphic test wells will be kept confidential by the commission for 24 months following the 30-day filing period after well completion, suspension, or abandonment unless the operator gives written and unrestricted permission to release all of the reports and information at an earlier date. Upon notification that the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources has made a finding that the required reports and information from a well contain significant information relating to the valuation of unleased land in the same vicinity, the commission will hold the reports and information confidential beyond the 24-month period and until notified by the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources to release the reports and information.
(e) Notwithstanding (b) or (d) of this section, any information obtained or used by the commission in the administration of its program under 42 U.S.C. 300h-4 (Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 300 f - 300j)
Authority: AS 31.05.030
AS 31.05.035