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Volume 54, No. 24

235/2011

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 31, 2011

B.C. Reg. 235/2011 , deposited December 14, 2011, pursuant to the OIL AND GAS ACTIVITIES ACT [section 99 (h)]. Order in Council 622/2011, approved and ordered December 13, 2011.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Oil and Gas Activities Act General Regulation, B.C. Reg. 274/2010, is amended as follows.

Section 17 (6) is repealed.

2 The following

section is added:

Publication and availability of records and reports

17.1

(1) The following records or reports are not subject to

section 15 of this regulation:

(

a) records or reports submitted to the commission under

section 37 of the Drilling and Production Regulation;

(

b) records of the expected total vertical and measured depths at the time of approval of the well permit, formation at expected total depth, position, ground elevation and drilling status of the well;

(

c) all applications for permits and amendments to permits, including all submissions supporting those applications.

(2) The commission must publish the records and reports referred to in subsection (1) (

a) as soon as practicable after receiving those records and reports.

(3) The commission must make the records referred to in subsection (1) (

b) and (

c) available to the public at all times during business hours and may make those records available to the public at any other time.

— R. COLEMAN, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Housing ; I. CHONG, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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