Kan. Admin. Regs. § 82-3-1222 – Reporting required; record retention.

(a) Each operator shall meet the requirements in subsection (b) if any safety inspection reveals any regulatory or permit deficiencies at the storage facility, if any threat to public safety, usable water, or soil is discovered, or if the storage facility or any storage well fails any monitoring activity, test, survey, or log specified in the following plans:

(1) The site selection plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1208;
(2) the drilling and completion plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1209;
(3) the storage facility integrity plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1210;
(4) the storage well workover plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1211;
(5) the storage well integrity plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1212 or K.A.R. 82-3-1213;
(6) the long-term monitoring, measurement, and testing plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1214 or K.A.R. 82-3-1215;
(7) the safety and emergency response plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1216;
(8) the plugging-monitoring status plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1218;
(9) the well plugging plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1219; and
(10) the decommissioning plan in K.A.R. 82-3-1221.

(b) Each operator shall, upon the occurrence of any condition in subsection (a), perform the following, which may include repairs, retesting, plugging, or abandonment activities as required by the director:

(1) Notify the conservation division of the condition in subsection (a) within 24 hours of actual knowledge, including a description of whether the condition threatens public safety, usable water, or soil;
(2) submit a detailed written plan to correct the condition in subsection (a) within three days of actual knowledge;
(3) if the conservation division determines that the condition in subsection (a) threatens public safety, usable water, or soil, comply with instructions from the conservation division and correct the condition within 30 days; and
(4) if the conservation division determines the condition in subsection (a) does not threaten public safety, usable water, or soil, comply with instructions from the conservation division and correct the violation within 90 days.

(c) Each operator shall keep and maintain for at least five years all data obtained from the SCADA system, including any magnetic tape, electronic data, and meter chart, and any reports submitted to the conservation division pursuant to K.A.R. 82-3-1201(b)(4), K.A.R. 82-3-1212, and K.A.R. 82-3-1213.

(d) (1) Each operator shall keep and maintain for the life of the storage facility and any storage well, until the storage facility is abandoned pursuant to K.A.R. 82-3-1221, all logs, updated maps, tests, records, data, and correspondence with the conservation division or Kansas department of health and environment specified in the following plans and regarding the construction, drilling, completion, solutioning, mechanical integrity, and abandonment of the storage facility or any storage well:

(A) The permit application specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1203;
(B) the site selection plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1208;
(C) the drilling and completion plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1209;
(D) the storage facility integrity plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1210;
(E) the storage well workover plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1211;
(F) the long-term monitoring, measurement, and testing plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1214 or K.A.R. 82-3-1215;
(G) the plugging-monitoring status plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1218;
(H) the well plugging plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1219; and
(I) the decommissioning plan specified in K.A.R. 82-3-1221.
1. (2) The record retention requirement in this subsection shall also include any shallow or deep groundwater monitoring data and leak detector monitoring data.

(e) Each transferring operator and each transferee operator of any permit transferred pursuant to K.A.R. 82-3-1206 shall ensure that all items specified in subsections (c) and (d) are transferred to the control of the transferee operator.

(f) If an operator makes any change to any plan described in K.A.R. 82-3-1203(c), the operator shall provide an updated copy of the plan to the conservation division within 30 days of making the change.