La. Admin. Code tit. 43 § XIX-3907

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XIX-3907 - Pre-Application Notice

A. Except as provided by §3917, any person intending to apply for a hearing, prior to filing application, shall send a notice outlining the proposal to the commissioner (in duplicate) with a copy to the district manager and to each interested owner and represented party. Interested owners and represented parties need not be furnished the list described in §3907. B 1, but the applicant upon request shall furnish a copy of said list to the requesting party.

B. Each pre-application notice shall include or be accompanied by the following:

1. a list of the names and addresses of all interested owners and represented parties to whom it is being sent;

2. a statement that a reasonable effort has been made to determine to whom the notices as required by this rule must be sent;

3. an explanation of the nature of the proposal and a copy of a unit plat for each sand, if units are involved, prepared in accordance with all applicable memoranda and the procedure for assigning nomenclature of LAC 43:XIX.103, with any geological bases for any unit boundary labeled thereon. A reasonable effort shall be made to prepare the plat in sufficient detail to enable affected parties to determine the location of their lands;

4. a day, time and place for a conference which need be held only if notice of a desire to confer with respect to the application is given as herein after provided. Any such conference shall be held within the state of Louisiana (unless mutually agreed otherwise among all interested owners and represented parties) in a city reasonably convenient to the persons involved and shall be scheduled for not less than 20 calendar days following the date of the pre-application notice;

5. a definition of the sand proposed for unitization with such sand defined in each reservoir thereof by reference to well log measurements.

C. If an applicant has proof acceptable to the commissioner that there is no necessity to confer about the proposal because there is no indication of opposition from any person to whom the pre-application notice must be sent, he may immediately proceed to file his application and need not schedule a conference nor comply with §3915. A.1 hereof.

La. Admin. Code tit. 43, § XIX-3907

Adopted by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, October 1983, amended and promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 19:760 (June 1993), repromulgated LR 19:1030 (August 1993).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:4 et seq.