Cal. PRC § 3240
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 3240, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
The supervisor, in cooperation with appropriate state and local agencies, shall conduct a study of abandoned oil and gas wells located in those areas of the state with substantial potential for methane and other hazardous gas accumulations in order to determine the location, the extent of methane gas and other hazardous gas accumulations, and potential hazards from the abandoned wells.
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