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March 9, 2015 By SEO Admin

DEP proposing additional gas well regulations

The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to bolster its proposed rewrite of rules governing oil and natural gas wells, calling for new regulations on noise levels and upgrades to wastewater impoundments.

The department has been drafting new drilling regulations since 2011, and on Monday, officials outlined some new revisions to an initial version it published in 2013.

Among other things, the revisions would require operators to either upgrade centralized wastewater impoundments and…