Assessment of Costs

PURPOSE: This rule establishes a fee structure for activities conducted under 10 CSR 50. (1) Beginning January 1, 2017, the following fees shall be assessed and deposited in the Oil and Gas Resources Fund: (A) A fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) paid upon the submittal of an initial or renewal application for an operator license; except as provided in subsection (B); (B) A fee of fifty dollars ($50) paid upon submittal of an initial or renewal application for an operator license by an applicant who solely operates a non-commercial gas well; (C) A fee of one hundred dollars ($100) paid upon submittal of an application for a permit to drill, deepen, plug-back, or recomplete as follows: 1. Any new application for permit to drill, deepen, plug-back, or recomplete any well; 2. Any application for modification to the permit to drill, deepen, plug-back, or recomplete; or 3. Blanket requests to drill, deepen, plug-back, or recomplete wells proposed to depths no greater than one thousand five hundred feet (1500'); (D) A fee of one hundred dollars ($100) paid upon submittal of an application for a permit to inject as follows: 1. Any new application for a permit to inject in any well; or 2. Any application for modification to the initial injection well permit including, but not limited to, an increase in the maximum injection pressure and/or the maximum injection rate; 3. No fee will be assessed for a modification to an injection permit as specified in 10 CSR 50-2.055(5)(B); (E) A fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) paid upon submittal of an application for extension of the shut-in status of a well; (F) A fee of fifty dollars ($50) paid upon submittal of a plugging record for each well plugged; (G) A fee of sixty cents ($0.60) on each barrel of oil sold or marketed each month assessed to each operator. The fee and assessment apply only to the first purchase of oil from the operator and will be collected and submitted by the first purchaser of oil; (H) A fee of seven and one-tenth cents ($0.071) on each one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of gas sold or marketed each month assessed to each operator. The charge and assessment apply only to the first purchase of gas from the operator and will be collected and submitted by the first purchaser of gas; (I) A late fee of no more than one hundred dollars ($100) per month assessed against the responsible party each month until the form or report has been submitted. In no case, however, will a late fee exceed one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per violation for each well. (2) Fee nonrefundable. Once paid, each fee is nonrefundable. AUTHORITY: sections 259.052 and 259.080, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Sept. 15, 2015, effective March 30, 2016. Amended: Filed June 27, 2018, effective Feb. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 259.052, RSMo 2015 and 259.080, RSMo 1965, amended 1972, 2015.