PRIORH0247B0216A00317 PRINTER'SNAD:CMD 03/18/19 #90 A00317 AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO.

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999REPRESENTATIVE THEMETZGAR GENERALPrinter's ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE BILL Session of No.

247216 2019Amend INTRODUCEDBill, BYpage OBERLANDER,1, FRITZ,line JAMES,17, MILLARD,by BERNSTINE,inserting ZIMMERMAN,after EVERETT,"agreement" RYAN,that O'NEAL,includes BENNINGHOFF,a KAUFER,voluntary DUSH,pooling HERSHEY,provision PYLE,2019/90NAD/HB0247A00317 TURZAI,- WARNER,1 MASSER,- STRUZZI, WEBSTER AND KORTZ, JANUARY 28, 2019 AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 19, 2019 AN ACT Amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in development, further providing for well permits.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.

Section 3211 of Title 58 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:

§ 3211.

Well permits.

* * * (n) Cross unit drilling.--If an operator has the right to drill an oil and OR gas well on separate leases or units, the <-- operator may drill and produce a well that traverses, by horizontal drilling, more than one lease or unit, if the operator reasonably allocates production from the well among the leases or units RELATED TO EACH LESSOR'S ACREAGE IN THE UNIT and <-- the traversing well is not expressly prohibited by the terms of a lease.

Nothing in this section shall authorize a producer AN <-- OPERATOR to drill or produce natural gas AN OIL OR GAS WELL that <-- is not subject to a valid lease and OR royalty agreement THAT <-- INCLUDES A VOLUNTARY POOLING PROVISION with a landowner LESSOR.

<-- Section 2.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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