State of South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature

2012 Interim Committee Related Documents

Oil and Gas Study

06/12/12 - 1: Oil & Gas Study Committee Syllabus
06/12/12 - 2: Oil & Gase Mineral Interest - Severed & Abandoned
06/12/12 - 3: Oil & Gas Publications
06/12/12 - 4: Taxation - Severance Tax and Other Taxation
06/12/12 - 5: DENR - Oil & Gas Overview
06/12/12 - 6: Oil & Gas Statutes, Rules, & Permitting
06/12/12 - 7: School and Public Lands
09/26/12 - South Dakota Oil & Gas Development/Preparedness Executive Branch Work Groups-Summary of Findings
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 1 - revise the provisions regarding plugging and performance bonds for oil and gas wells and to repeal the supplemental restoration bond requirement.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 10 - revise the compensation requirements payable to surface owners for exploration damages and to allow the payments to be made in multiple installments.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 11 - provide sales and use tax refunds for certain oil and gas exploratory and development wells.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 12 - provide additional highway patrol and additional motor carrier service in northwestern South Dakota and to make an appropriation therefor.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 13 - provide funding to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to conduct surveys and analysis of sand and clay deposits and to make an appropriation therefor.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 14 - impose an excise tax to address depredation of property resulting from certain energy development activities and to establish an energy property depredation fund.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 15 - revise certain provisions relating to the termination of certain mineral interests.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 16 - provide for the award of treble damages in certain surface depredation cases.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 17 - require the Commissioner of School and Public Lands to protect certain lands from surface depredation by mineral developers.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 2 - revise the bonds required to obtain a mineral drilling permit.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 3 - provide for mediation between mineral developers and surface owners in certain disputes over surface depredation.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 4 - provide funding for unresolved surface depredation caused by oil and gas exploration and to make an appropriation therefor.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 5 - require certain posting of information if hydraulic fracture stimulation is performed on oil and gas wells.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 6 - require mineral explorers to give notice to surface owners before entering the land.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 7 - provide for the creation of a trust account for unlocatable mineral interest owners.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 8 - prohibit the rustling of sheep as grand theft.
10/30/12 - Bill Draft 9 - provide for the award of attorney fees and costs in certain surface depredation cases.
10/30/12 - Cost Estimates for moving the Geological Survey Program, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, from Vermillion to Rapid City or Pierre.