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36 CFR §9.170

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Except as provided in § 9.171, you must plug your well when any of the following occurs:
  1. (a)Your drilling operations have ended and you have taken no further action to produce the well within 60 days;
  2. (b)Your well, which has been completed for production operations, has no measureable production quantities for 12 consecutive months; or
  3. (c)The period approved in your operations permit to maintain your well in shut-in status has expired.