It is the purpose of this article to:
(1) Foster, encourage, promote, and establish a legal and regulatory framework for the development and approval of underground carbon dioxide sequestration facilities;
(2) Designate a state agency responsible for establishing standards and rules for the development and approval of underground carbon dioxide sequestration and storage facilities; and
(3) Safeguard, protect and enforce the correlative rights of operators, mineral owners, pore space owners, and surface owners in that each may obtain just and reasonable compensation for their respective contribution for underground carbon dioxide sequestration facilities.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 22. Environmental Resources
Article 11B. Underground Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Storage
§22-11B-1. Statement of Purpose
§22-11B-5. Public Participation in Permit Process, Notices, Public Hearing
§22-11B-6. Permit and Order Provisions; Identification of Agent
§22-11B-7. Additional Rulemaking Authority
§22-11B-8. Environmental Protection, Other Law
§22-11B-10. Cooperative Agreements
§22-11B-11. Ownership of Carbon Dioxide
§22-11B-12. Certificate of Project Completion, Release, Transfer of Title and Custody, Filing
§22-11B-13. Carbon Dioxide Storage Facility Administrative Fund
§22-11B-14. Application Fee, Deposit, Use in Cooperative Regulatory Functions
§22-11B-15. Carbon Dioxide Storage Facility Trust Fund
§22-11B-16. Operation Fee, Use, Report to Legislature
§22-11B-17. Determining Storage Amounts, Carbon Credits, Fee
§22-11B-18. Subsurface Pore Space or Container Space
§22-11B-19. Co-Tenants, Ownership of Pore Space by Multiple Co-Tenants and Collective Storage
§22-11B-20. Funds to Be Held in Trust for Unknown or Unlocatable Owners