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Utah Code § 40-11-4: Board and division permit authority.

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  1. Title 40 Mines and Mining
  2. Chapter 40-11 Geologic Carbon Storage

To the extent required to authorize and issue permits and to regulate geologic carbon sequestration, the board and the division shall have authority:

(1) over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce this chapter and this chapter's objectives;

(2) to regulate activities relating to a storage facility, including construction, operation, and closure;

(3) to enter, at a reasonable time and manner, a storage facility to:

(a) inspect equipment and surface storage facilities;

(b) observe, monitor, and investigate operations; or

(c) inspect records the board requires the operators maintain at the storage facility;

(4) to require that storage operators provide assurance, including bonds, that money is available to fulfill the storage operator's duties;

(5) to exercise continuing jurisdiction over storage operators and storage facilities, including the authority, after notice and hearing, to amend provisions in a permit and to revoke a permit;

(6) to dissolve or change the boundaries of any unit that is within or near a storage reservoir's boundaries; and

(7) to oversee the expenditure of money from the fund to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

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