SB 970

                                                   PRINTER'S NO.   1111
                 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                    SENATE BILL
                    No. 970
                                            Session of
                                              2025
INTRODUCED BY MUTH, FONTANA AND COMITTA, AUGUST 15, 2025
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, AUGUST 15, 2025
                                 AN ACT
1 Amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2    Statutes, in development, further providing for well permits.
3    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5    Section 1.     Section 3211 of Title 58 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
7 § 3211.    Well permits.
8    * * *
9    (a.1)    Oil and gas fluid injection wells prohibited.--
10(1)   No person shall drill or alter a well to inject
11    fluids produced in association with oil and gas production
12    for disposal or storage.
13(2)   The department may not issue a well permit for a
14    proposed drilling or alteration of a well to inject fluids
15    produced in association with oil and gas production for
16    disposal or storage.
17(3)   A person who meets the following may bring an action
18    in a court of common pleas to enforce compliance with
1  paragraph (1):
2(i)    resides or owns property within five miles of a
3      well drilled or altered in violation of paragraph (1); or
4(ii)    owns or operates a business that conducts
5      business activities within five miles of a well drilled
6      or altered in violation of paragraph (1).
7      (4)    An action under this subsection must be brought in
8  the court of common pleas in the district where the well is
9  located.
10      (5)    In an action brought under this subsection, the
11  court of common pleas may grant appropriate relief, including
12  actual damages, attorney fees and court costs and equitable
13  and injunctive relief.
14  * * *
15  Section 2.       This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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