Development Projects

The SUIT DOE has created a guidance manual for Exploration and Production (E&P) operators who are planning an oil & gas development project. This document, Exploration & Production Operator’s Compliance Manual for Energy Development Projects on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, provides guidance to E&P Operators on the processes for obtaining 1) authorization to drill an oil and gas (O&G) well and 2) right-of-way (ROW) easements and surface leases on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation (SUIR).

Links to documents referenced in the manual are as follows:

• Southern Ute Environmental Programs Division Spill/Release Report
• SUIT DNR Standard Operating Procedures for Field On-Sites and Survey Plats
• SUIT DNR Permission to Survey (PTS) and Proposed Project Notification (PPN) Presentation
• SUIT Stormwater Recommendations
• 25 CFR Part 169 – Rights-of-Ways Over Indian Lands
• 40 CFR 60 – Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources
• 40 CFR 71 – Federal Operating Program Permits
• 43 CFR Part 3160 – Onshore Oil and Gas Operations; Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases; Onshore Oil and Gas Order Number 1, Approval of Operations
• BLM Onshore Order Number 5 – Measurement of Gas