[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR9.36]

[Page 158-160]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 9--MINERALS MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B--Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights
 
Sec. 9.36  Plan of operations.

    (a) The proposed plan of operations shall include, as appropriate to 
the proposed operations, the following:
    (1) The names and legal addresses of the following persons: The 
operator, and the owner(s) or lessee(s) (if rights are State-owned) 
other than the operator;
    (2) Copy of the lease, deed, designation of operator, or assignment 
of rights upon which the operator's right to conduct operations is 
based;
    (3) A map or maps showing the location of the perimeter of the area 
where the operator has the right to conduct operations, as described in 
Sec. 9.36(a)(2), referenced to the State plane coordinate system or 
other public land survey as acceptable to the Superintendent;
    (4) A map or maps showing the location, as determined by a 
registered land surveyor or civil engineer, of a point within a site of 
operations showing its relationship to the perimeter of the area 
described in Sec. 9.36(a)(2) and to the perimeter of the site of 
operations; the location of existing and proposed access roads or routes 
to the site; the boundaries of proposed surface disturbance; the 
location of proposed drilling; location and description of all surface 
facilities including sumps, reserve pits and ponds; location of tank 
batteries, production facilities and gathering, service and transmission 
lines; wellsite layout; sources of construction materials such as fill; 
and the location of ancillary facilities such as camps, sanitary 
facilities, water supply and disposal facilities, and airstrips. The 
point within the site of operations identified by registered land 
surveyor or civil engineer shall be marked with a permanent ground 
monument acceptable to the Superintendent, shall contain the point's 
State plane coordinate values, and shall be placed at least to an 
accuracy of third order, class I, unless otherwise authorized by the 
Superintendent;
    (5) A description of the major equipment to be used in the 
operations, including a description of equipment and methods to be used 
for the transport of all waters used in or produced by operations, and 
of the proposed method of transporting such equipment to and from the 
site;
    (6) An estimated timetable for any phase of operations for which 
approval is sought and the anticipated date of operation completion;
    (7) The geologic name of the surface formation;
    (8) The proposed drilling depth, and the estimated tops of important 
geologic markers;

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    (9) The estimated depths at which anticipated water, brines, oil, 
gas, or other mineral bearing formations are expected to be encountered;
    (10) The nature and extent of the known deposit or reservoir to be 
produced and a description of the proposed operations, including:
    (i) The proposed casing program, including the size, grade, and 
weight of each string, and whether it is new or used;
    (ii) The proposed setting depth of each casing string, and the 
amount of type of cement, including additives, to be used;
    (iii) The operator's minimum specifications for pressure control 
equipment which is to be used, a schematic diagram thereof showing 
sizes, pressure ratings, and the testing procedures and testing 
frequency;
    (iv) The type and characteristics of the proposed circulating medium 
or mediums to be employed for rotary drilling and the quantities and 
types of mud and weighting material to be maintained;
    (v) The testing, logging, and coring programs to be followed;
    (vi) Anticipated abnormal pressures or temperatures expected to be 
encountered; or potential hazards to persons and the environment such as 
hydrogen sulfide gas or oil spills, along with plans for mitigation of 
such hazards;
    (11) A description of the steps to be taken to comply with the 
applicable operating standards of Sec. 9.41 of this subpart;
    (12) Provisions for reclamation which will result in compliance with 
the requirements of Sec. 9.39:
    (13) A breakdown of the estimated costs to be incurred during the 
implementation of the reclamation plan;
    (14) Methods for disposal of all rubbish and other solid and liquid 
wastes, and contaminating substances;
    (15) An affidavit stating that the operations planned are in 
compliance with all applicable Federal, State and local laws and 
regulations;
    (16) Background information, including:
    (i) A description of the natural, cultural, social and economic 
environments to be affected by operations, including a description and/
or map(s) of the location of all water, abandoned, temporarily 
abandoned, disposal, production, and drilling wells of public record 
within a two-mile radius of the proposed site. Where such information is 
available from documents identified in Sec. 9.36(d), specific reference 
to the document and the location within the document where such 
information can be found will be sufficient to satisfy this requirement;
    (ii) The anticipated direct and indirect effects of the operations 
on the unit's natural, cultural, social, and economic environment;
    (iii) Steps to be taken to insure minimum surface disturbance and to 
mitigate any adverse environmental effects, and a discussion of the 
impacts which cannot be mitigated;
    (iv) Measures to protect surface and subsurface waters by means of 
casing and cement, etc.;
    (v) All reasonable technologically feasible alternative methods of 
operations, their costs, and their environmental effects, and
    (vi) The effects of the steps to be taken to achieve reclamation;
    (17) Any other facets of the proposed operations which the operator 
wishes to point out for consideration; and
    (18) Any additional information that is required to enable the 
Superintendent to establish whether the operator has the right to 
conduct operations as specified in the plan of operations; to 
effectively analyze the effects that the operations will have on the 
preservation, management and public use of the unit; and to make a 
recommendation to the Regional Director regarding approval or 
disapproval of the plan of operations and the amount of the performance 
bond to be posted.
    (b) Where any information required to be submitted as part of a 
proposed plan of operations has been submitted to the Superintendent in 
substantially the same form in a prior approved plan of operations, a 
specific cross-reference to that information contained in the prior 
approved plan of operations will be sufficient to incorporate it into 
the proposed plan and will satisfy the applicable requirement of this 
section.
    (c) Information and materials submitted in compliance with this 
section

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will not constitute a plan of operations until information required by 
Sec. 9.36(a) (1) through (18), which the Superintendent determines as 
pertinent to the type of operations proposed, has been submitted to and 
determined adequate by the Regional Director.
    (d) In all cases the plan of operations must consider and discuss 
the unit's Statement for Management and other planning documents as 
furnished by the Superintendent, and activities to control, minimize or 
prevent damage to the recreational, biological, physical, scientific, 
cultural, and scenic resources of the unit, and any reclamation 
procedures suggested by the Superintendent.

[43 FR 57825, Dec. 8, 1978; 44 FR 37914, June 29, 1979]