Every person, firm or corporation operating an oil and gas mining lease in the State of Oklahoma, and having been directed by order or orders of the Corporation Commission to dispose of water or other deleterious substances therefrom, upon proper showing at a hearing before the Corporation Commission, that the necessary rights-of-way to dispose of such water or other deleterious substances are impossible to obtain by negotiation and purchase, such person, firm or corporation shall be authorized to institute condemnation proceedings in the name of the Corporation Commission to obtain rights-of-way necessary to comply with such order or orders of the Corporation Commission.
Okla. Stat. tit. 52, § 147