Two webinars and a YouTube video of the June 26 meeting of the DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board will be available on DEP's website for on-demand viewing.

The board meeting featured two discussions of interest to the public and regulated community.  The morning session of the meeting featured a discussion of the comments received from more than 24,000 individuals on proposed new regulations regarding surface activities related to oil and gas well development.

The Proposed Rulemaking: Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78 Subchapter C), would set new requirements related to oil and gas operations to ensure increased protection of public health, safety and the environment.

A webinar on the discussion will be posted here. 

In addition, a video of the morning session will be posted to DEP's YouTube Channel.

The afternoon session of the meeting featured a discussion of concepts for an new rulemaking related to casing, cementing, and plugging of oil and gas wells (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78 Subchapter D).  That webinar will be available here.

Information about the proposed rulemaking including transcripts of previous public hearings and webinars, is available on DEP’s Oil and Gas Surface Regulations webpage.

Copies of available handouts from the meeting are on the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board webpage.

(Reprinted from the June 26 issue of DEP News.  Click Here to sign up for your own copy or to read back issues.)

6/30/2014