[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 19]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR147.50]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 147--STATE UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart B--Alabama
 
Sec. 147.50  State-administered program--Class II wells.


    The UIC program for Class II wells in the State of Alabama, except 
those on Indian lands, is the program administered by the State Oil and 
Gas Board of Alabama, approved by EPA pursuant to section 1425 of the 
SDWA. Notice of this approval was published in the Federal Register on 
August 2, 1982 (47 FR 33268); the effective date of this program is 
August 2, 1982. This program consists of the following elements, as 
submitted to EPA in the State's program application:
    (a) Incorporation by reference. The requirements set forth in the 
State statutes and regulations cited in this paragraph are hereby 
incorporated by reference and made a part of the applicable UIC program 
under the SDWA for the State of Alabama. This incorporation by reference 
was approved by the

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Director of the Federal Register on June 25, 1984.
    (1) Code of Alabama Sections 9-17-1 through 9-17-109 (Cumm. Supp. 
1989);
    (2) State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama Administrative Code, Oil and 
Gas Report 1 (supplemented through May 1989), Rules and Regulations 
Governing the Conservation of Oil and Gas in Alabama, and Oil and Gas 
Statutes of Alabama with Oil and Gas Board Forms, Sec. 400-1-2 and 
Sec. 400-1-5-.04.
    (b) The Memorandum of Agreement between EPA Region IV and the 
Alabama Oil and Gas Board, signed by the EPA Regional Administrator on 
June 15, 1982.
    (c) Statement of legal authority. ``State Oil and Gas Board has 
Authority to Carry Out Underground Injection Control Program Relating to 
Class II Wells as Described in Federal Safe Drinking Water Act--Opinion 
by Assistant Attorney General,'' May 28, 1982.
    (d) The Program Description and any other materials submitted as 
part of the application or as supplements thereto.

[49 FR 20197, May 11, 1984, as amended at 53 FR 43086, Oct. 25, 1988; 56 
FR 9411, Mar. 6, 1991]