November 11, 2007 - In addition to allowing the industry to self-monitor, Texas Railroad Commission rules don’t require a landowner be notified if decontamination work is being done. Moreover, if the contaminated material is diluted to meet state limits, the operator is not required to notify either the state or the landowner to bury contaminated material on site.
News that special crews pulled up to an existing gas well on Jason Zimmerman’s land in March to decontaminate 10 barrels of radioactive residue came as a surprise to him.
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