Section 240.1835  Contents of Application for Permit to Drill or Convert to an Observation or Gas Storage Well

The application for a permit shall include:

a)         the name of the well;

b)         the surveyed well location, the GPS latitude and longitude location, and ground elevation of the well.  All GPS locations shall be recorded as degrees and minutes with the minutes recorded to 6 decimal places in the North American Datum 1983 projection and shall be accurate to within 3 feet.  The reported GPS location is required to be an actual GPS field measurement and not a calculated or conversion measurement.  All well locations shall be surveyed by a registered Illinois Land Surveyor or an Illinois Registered Professional Engineer.  A survey is not required for a converted or deepened well or a drilled out plugged hole if the original well location was surveyed;

c)         a brief statement of the purpose of the well and a schematic showing the proposed construction of the well;

d)         certification, under penalty of perjury, that the applicant has the right, pursuant to valid and subsisting oil and gas leases, documents or memoranda of public record and/or any statute or regulation, to drill for and operate a well on the lands and formations required for the proposed well, as set forth in Subpart D;

e)         a statement as to whether the proposed well location is within the limits of any incorporated city, town, or village (and a certified copy of the official consent of the municipal authorities if the well is within the corporate limits);

f)         the name and address of the drilling contractor and the type of drilling method to be used;

g)         a statement whether the well is located over an active mine or temporarily abandoned mine, or within the undeveloped limits of a mine, and whether the coal rights are owned by someone other than the lessor under the oil and gas lease;

h)         the proposed depth of the well and the name of the lowest geologic formation to be penetrated; and

i)          an email address by which the gas storage operator may be served with a notice of probable violation of the Act.  All such email addresses shall be updated by the gas storage operator or person authorized to sign for the gas storage operator within 3 days after any email address becoming inactive or unmonitored.  Any application not containing an email address for the owner or gas storage operator will be denied by the Department.

(Source:  Amended at 43 Ill. Reg. 11524, effective September 24, 2019)