House Bill 351

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Title AN ACT relating to carbon capture and sequestration projects.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 370
Sponsors R. Adkins, T. Pullin, B. Yonts
Summary of Original Version Create new sections of subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224. to establish definitions for "authorized area project," "CAER," "carbon sequestration," " KGS," "operator," "post-injection," and "sequestered gas;" establish requirements for carbon sequestration projects; require the transfer of rights, title, interests, benefits, claims, credits, allocations, or offsets in sequestered gas; require an environmental covenant on surface and subsurface; require KGS to monitor the sequestered gas; prohibit the Commonwealth from removing the gas unless for reasons of research and development, protecting the health, safety, and environment, or upon direction by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Index Headings of Original Version Civil Actions - Liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Civil Procedure - Governmental immunity, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, extension of
Coal - Operators, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, governmental immunity for
Courts - Board of Claims, governmental immunity, nonwaiver of
Deeds and Conveyances - Pore space, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, mineral estates, dominance of
Energy - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Environment and Conservation - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Fuel - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Land Use - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Minerals and Mining - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Pollution - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Property - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Public Utilities - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
Real Estate - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from
State Agencies - Carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, operators as agents of state, designation of
Surface Mining - Civil liability, carbon sequestration and demonstration projects, immunity from

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02/09/09
  • introduced in House
02/10/09
  • to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
02/23/09
  • posted in committee


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