drafter
Clerk 3/20/03
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to zoning, establishing land use, siting and performance standards for oil and gas well extraction facilities; adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 21A.06 and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 21A.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Purpose. This ordinance is enacted to facilitate the development of natural gas resources within the unincorporated area of the county while mitigating potential land use conflicts between this development and existing, as well as planned, land uses. Surface and mineral estates are recognized as separate and distinct interests in land and that one may be severed from the other. Owners of subsurface mineral interests have certain legal rights and privileges, including the right to use that part of the surface estate reasonably required to extract and develop the subsurface mineral interests, subject to compliance with the provisions of this ordinance and any other applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. Similarly, owners of the surface estate have certain legal rights and privileges, including the right to have the mineral estate developed in a reasonable manner and to have adverse land use impacts upon their property, associated with the development of the mineral estate, mitigated through compliance with this ordinance.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 21A.06 a new section to read as follows:
Abandonment. Abandonment: nonuse or operation for one year.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 3. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 21A.06 a new section to read as follows:
Collection line. Collection line: a pipeline to a well designed to collect produced or waste water and transport it to a central disposal area (evaporation pit, holding tank or injection well.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 4. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 21A.06 a new section to read as follows:
Compressor station. Compressor s...

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