California Code
ARTICLE 4.1 - Abandoned Wells
Section 3240.

3240. The supervisor, in cooperation with appropriate state and local agencies, shall conduct a study of abandoned oil and gas wells located in those areas of the state with substantial potential for methane and other hazardous gas accumulations in order to determine the location, the extent of methane gas and other hazardous gas accumulations, and potential hazards from the abandoned wells.

(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 924, Sec. 1. Effective September 24, 1985.)