312 IAC 29-20-2 - Access roads, lease roads, well locations, and other construction activities
Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-37-3
Affected: IC 14-37
Sec. 2.
(a) The owner
or operator shall construct and maintain access roads, lease roads, and well
locations to:
(1) avoid springs, seeps, and
wet areas, where practicable;
(2)
prevent runoff from flowing across the road surface or well location unless the
road or location is elevated with clean fill or the runoff is diverted around
the road or location or otherwise conveyed under the road through the use of
culverts or similar conveyances;
(3) prevent the construction of roadways in
or across streams and other drainage ways unless a crossing is constructed with
culverts, bridges, or a temporary clean rock fill for low-flow drainage ways,
using commonly accepted design standards that take into consideration the size
of the drainage area above the stream crossing;
(4) protect the road and well location
surface, ditches, and culvert outlets from erosion that results in the
deposition of visible sediment into any stream or off-site drainage ditch;
and
(5) prevent mud from being
tracked onto a public road.
(b) The owner or operator shall promptly
remove mud and deposits of sediment resulting from access roads, lease roads,
well sites, pipelines, or other utility rights-of-ways and other areas affected
by oil and gas production operations from any public road, drainage ditch,
stream, or waterway and shall take appropriate measures to stabilize and
protect against further off site deposition of sediment or the continued
erosion of unstabilized areas.
(c)
Examples of appropriate measures that may be considered for compliance with
subsection (a) include the use of one (1) or more of the following:
(1) Stabilizing roads and well location
surfaces with crushed stone.
(2)
Where practical, when wet or muddy conditions are likely during construction,
drilling, completion, or workover operations, the use of a temporary stone pad
constructed adjacent to a public road should be considered in order to provide
an area where trucks, bulldozers, rigs, and other heavy equipment may be loaded
and unloaded.
(3) Establishing
temporary or permanent vegetation.
(4) Use of mulch to stabilize areas in
conjunction with the seeding of temporary or permanent vegetative
cover.
(5) Stabilization of culvert
outlets and ditches with rip-rap.
(6) The use of silt fences, straw bale
barriers, sediment traps, vegetative filter strips, or other commonly used
sediment control measures that remove sediment from runoff prior to discharge
onto adjoining lands or streams.
(d) The owner or operator shall obtain any
additional federal, state, and local permit required for the construction and
maintenance of lease roads, access roads, and well location.
Notes
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