Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1468
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  03/30/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Dean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 42 - 51
    4  and insert:
    5  (5) “Flowback Fluid” means a water based solution that flows
    6  back to the surface during and after completion of well
    7  stimulation.
    8         (6)(5) “Gas” means all natural gas, including casinghead
    9  gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in subsection
   10  (16) (15).
   11         (8) “Well stimulation” means a well intervention performed
   12  by injecting fluids into a rock formation in order to increase
   13  production at an oil or gas well by improving flow of
   14  hydrocarbons from the formation into the wellbore. Well
   15  stimulation does not include routine well cleaning that does not
   16  affect the integrity of the well or formation.
   17  
   18  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   19  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   20         Delete lines 35 - 39
   21  and insert:
   22         Section 1. Present subsection (5) of section 377.19,
   23  Florida Statutes, is amended and redesignated as subsection (6),
   24  present subsections (6) through (32) of that section are
   25  redesignated as subsections (8) through (34), respectively, and
   26  new subsections (5) and (7) are added to that section, to read:
   27  
   28  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 6
   31  and insert:
   32         the terms “flowback fluid” and “well stimulation;”
   33         amending s.