1. (a) This rule pertains to oil well setback provisions specified in certain established field rules in Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, and Union counties.
2. (b) In all established field rules covered by this section, all oil well setback provisions which are measured from a boundary other than the drilling unit boundary, and which are commonly referred to as “bull’s-eye” or “race-track” locations for ten-acre drilling units, described as a quarter (1/4) quarter (1/4) quarter (1/4) of a governmental section; twenty-acre drilling units, described as the east one-half (E/2), west one-half (W/2), north one-half (N/2), or south one-half (S/2) of a quarter (1/4) quarter (1/4) of a governmental section; forty-acre drilling units, described as a quarter (1/4) quarter (1/4) of a governmental section; and eighty-acre drilling units described as the east one-half (E/2), west one-half (W/2), north one-half (N/2), or south one-half (S/2) of a quarter (1/4) of a governmental section, are set at two hundred eighty feet (280’) from the drilling unit boundary and all existing bull’s-eye or race-track field rule setback requirements for the above drilling units are abolished.
3. (c) Established field rules with well setback requirements less than two hundred eighty feet (280’) from the above drilling unit boundaries, shall remain unchanged.
4. (d) Applications for exceptions to these well location provisions, relative to a drilling unit boundary or other location in a common source of supply, may be approved by the Oil and Gas Commission after notice and a hearing in accordance with 15 CAR §§ 275-101 and 275-102 and other applicable hearing procedures.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Source: new rule February 19, 2009)"