KRS 349.075: Spacing requirements for vertical and horizontal coalbed methane wells.

Except as provided in KRS 349.070, or pursuant to voluntary pooling, no permit shall be

issued for a coalbed methane well unless the proposed location of a vertical well shall be

at least seven hundred fifty (750) feet horizontally from the nearest mineral boundary

upon which the well is to be drilled and the proposed location shall be at least one

thousand five hundred (1,500) feet horizontally from the nearest coalbed methane well,

unless the department orders that a different spacing distance shall apply . Spacing

distances for coalbed methane horizontal wells shall be separately established by the

department pursuant to this chapter.