(1) (a) The commission has jurisdiction over all persons and property, public and private, necessary to enforce this article 60, the power to make and enforce rules and orders pursuant to this article 60, and to do whatever may reasonably be necessary to carry out this article 60.
(b) Any delegation of authority to any other state officer, board, or commission to administer any other laws of this state relating to the conservation of oil or gas, or either of them, is hereby rescinded and withdrawn, and that authority is unqualifiedly conferred upon the commission, as provided in this section; except that, as further specified in section 34-60-131, nothing in this article 60 alters, impairs, or negates the authority of:
The air quality control commission to regulate, pursuant to article 7 of title 25, theemission of air pollutants from oil and gas operations;
The water quality control commission to regulate, pursuant to article 8 of title 25, thedischarge of water pollutants from oil and gas operations;
The state board of health to regulate, pursuant to section 25-11-104, the disposal ofnaturally occurring radioactive materials and technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials from oil and gas operations;
The solid and hazardous waste commission to:
Regulate, pursuant to article 15 of title 25, the disposal of hazardous waste from oiland gas operations; or
Regulate, pursuant to section 30-20-109 (1.5), the disposal of exploration and production waste from oil and gas operations; and
(V) A local government to regulate oil and gas operations pursuant to section 29-20-104.
(c) Any person, or the attorney general on behalf of the state, may apply for a hearing before the commission, or the commission may initiate proceedings, upon any question relating to the administration of this article 60, and jurisdiction is conferred upon the commission to hear and determine the question and enter its rule or order with respect to the question.
Repealed.
The attorney general is the legal advisor of the commission, and it is his or her dutyto represent the commission in all court proceedings and in all proceedings before it and in any proceedings to which the commission may be a party before any department of the federal government.
(a) Except as specified in subsection (4)(b) of this section, nothing in this article 60 authorizes the state or its local governments, including the commission, boards of county commissioners, and municipalities, to regulate the activities of:
Federally recognized Indian tribes, their political subdivisions, or tribally controlledaffiliates, undertaken or to be undertaken with respect to mineral evaluation, exploration, or development on lands within the exterior boundaries of an Indian reservation located within the state; or
Third parties, undertaken or to be undertaken with respect to mineral evaluation,exploration, or development on Indian trust lands within the exterior boundaries of an Indian reservation located within the state.
Regulation by the state or its local governments, including the commission, boards ofcounty commissioners, and municipalities, applicable to non-Indians conducting oil and gas operations on lands within the exterior boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian reservation may apply to lands where both the surface and the oil and gas estates are owned in fee by a person other than the Southern Ute Indian tribe, regardless of whether the lands are communitized or pooled with Indian mineral lands.
Nothing in this article 60 alters the authority for the regulation of air pollution on theSouthern Ute Indian reservation as set forth in article 62 of title 24 and part 13 of article 7 of title 25.
Source: L. 51: p. 655, § 7. CSA: C. 118, § 68(7). CRS 53: § 100-6-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 100-6-5. L. 81: (2) repealed, p. 1690, § 3, effective May 21. L. 2016: (3) amended, (HB 161094), ch. 94, p. 268, § 18, effective August 10. L. 2019: (1) amended and (4) added, (SB 19181), ch. 120, p. 511, § 11, effective April 16.