Utah Code 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;

Board: means the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining. See Utah Code 40-11-1
Division: means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining. See Utah Code 40-11-1
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Permit: means a permit issued by the division and approved by the board allowing a person to operate a storage facility. See Utah Code 40-11-1
Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Reservoir: means a subsurface sedimentary stratum, formation, aquifer, cavity, or void, whether natural or artificially created, including oil and gas reservoirs, saline formations, and coal seams suitable for or capable of being made suitable for geologic carbon storage. See Utah Code 40-11-1
Storage facility: means the reservoir, underground equipment, and surface facilities and equipment used or proposed to be used in a geologic carbon storage operation. See Utah Code 40-11-1
Storage operator: means a person holding or applying for a permit. See Utah Code 40-11-1

(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; and

(6)	to dissolve or change the boundaries of any unit that is within or near a storage reservoir‘s boundaries.

Enacted by Chapter 62, 2022 General Session