36 CFR 9.170
§ 9.170 When must I plug my well?
United States · 36 CFR — Parks, Forests, and Public Property · Status: effective
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- 36 CFR 9.170, § 9.170 When must I plug my well?, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/158458
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Except as provided in § 9.171, you must plug your well when any of the following occurs:
(a) Your drilling operations have ended and you have taken no further action to produce the well within 60 days;
(b) Your well, which has been completed for production operations, has no measureable production quantities for 12 consecutive months; or
(c) The period approved in your operations permit to maintain your well in shut-in status has expired.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.