Authority: IC 14-10-2-4; IC 14-37-3

Affected: IC 14-37

Sec. 5. For wells drilled, deepened, completed, or converted as a vertical coal bed methane well:

1. (1) the drilling unit shall contain forty (40) acres of land, more or less; and

2. (2) the well shall be located not less than three hundred thirty (330) feet from the nearest external boundary line of the lease or production unit and not less than nine hundred ninety (990) feet from the nearest location of any of the following:

   1. (A) A producing coal bed methane well.
   2. (B) A well being drilled as a coal bed methane well.
   3. (C) The site of a proposed coal bed methane well for which a permit has been issued but the well is not yet drilled in the same coal seam.

(Natural Resources Commission; 312 IAC 29-13-5; filed Dec 1, 2017, 10:35 a.m.: 20171227-IR-312160230FRA; readopted filed Jan 17, 2023, 1:53 p.m.: 20230215-IR-312220328RFA)