§ 38-25-02 — Commission authority

The commission has authority:
1. Over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce this chapter when
necessary to prevent waste, to protect correlative rights of the mineral and surface
estate, or to effect greater ultimate storage and recovery of oil and gas.
2. To regulate activities relating to an underground storage facility, including construction,
solution mining to create salt caverns, operation, and closure.
3. To enter an underground storage facility at a reasonable time and manner to inspect
equipment and facilities, to observe, monitor, and investigate operations, and to
inspect records required to be maintained at the facility.
4. To require storage operators provide financial assurance, including bonds, to ensure
money is available to fulfill the storage operator's duties.
5. To exercise continuing jurisdiction over storage operators and storage facilities,
including the authority to amend or revoke a permit after notice and hearing.
6. After notice and hearing, to dissolve or change the boundaries of any commission
established oil or gas field or unit within or near a storage reservoir's or salt cavern's
boundaries.
7. After notice and hearing, to adopt reasonable rules and issue reasonable orders to
implement the policies of this chapter.

8. After notice and hearing, to grant exceptions to this chapter's requirements and
implementing rules if required to comply with applicable federal law.