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 Pearland
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 21. OIL AND GAS
 Article IV. GEOPHYSICAL/SEISMIC TESTING

  § 21-108. Testing.  

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  • (a)

    The applicant shall furnish to the city's director of public works, or designee, a schedule of each week's test plans.

    (b)

    All vibroseis or weight drop operations shall be conducted a minimum distance of twenty-five (25) feet from any building, which shall mean a structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, chattel, or movable property of any kind and which is affixed to the land. No charge test shall be detonated within three hundred (300) feet of any building, water well, or underground hazardous waste storage/disposal site. The applicant will provide multiple monitoring of any charge testing within six hundred (600) feet of any occupied building.

    (c)

    The applicant shall maintain and make available upon request to the city, for a period of two (2) years, the daily log of energy source tests showing date, location, energy source used, drive level, operator, and all other related information including seismic and pre- and post-test survey.

    (d)

    No energy source operation shall subject any building intended for human habitation, utility line, water well, or underground hazardous waste storage/disposal site to a peak particle velocity greater than five-tenths-inch per second.

    (e)

    Explosives shall be transported in constantly attended Type-three magazines as defined by section 1902.4.7 of the 1994 Standard Fire Prevention Code. All vehicles transporting explosives will be placarded according to Regulation of Hazardous Materials 49 C.F.R. Only the necessary amount of explosives for each day's operations, during such period as the permit is in effect, shall be transported within the city at any given time. No explosives shall be stored within the corporate city limits, unless approved by the city's fire marshal. If such storage is approved, explosives must be stored in a locked and secure, constantly attended type-two magazine, as defined by section 1902.4.6 of the 1994 Standard Fire Prevention Code, at a single, isolated, and sparsely populated location.

    (f)

    The applicant shall notify the city's director of public works, or designee, within three (3) business days after the occurrence of any violation of these permit requirements.

(Ord. No. 716-1, § 1, 12-8-08)