North Dakota Oil and Gas Division (1.701.328.8020)
North Dakota Department of Health (1.701.328.5210 or 5166)
North Dakota Emergency Management (1.800.472.2121 24-Hour Hotline)
ENVIRONMENTAL INCIDENT REPORTS
Instructions For: | Oilfield
Form | General
Form | Fish
Kill Form |
If there is any question
as to proper response call the Oil and Gas Division, the Department of Health,
or the North Dakota Division of Emergency Management and provide all relevant
information about the incident.
This form is only for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) exempt releases in the oilfield. This will
generally include:
- Produced fluids such as crude
oil, water, oil/water emulsion, drilling fluids and cuttings, well
completion, treatment, and stimulation fluids, basic sediment and water
and other tank bottoms from storage facilities and vessels and
impoundments that hold product and exempt waste, workover wastes, packing
fluids, pipe scale and other solids, hydrocarbon-bearing soil, pigging
wastes from gathering lines, and oil reclamation wastes.
- Gasses removed from the
production stream, gas plant dehydration and sweetening wastes, and
cooling tower blowdown.
Please Note:
- Releases of crude oil or
natural gas after ownership transfer from truck transport or transportation
pipelines are not exempt and should use the General Environmental Incident
Report Form link below.
RCRA-non-exempt wastes generally
include:
- Unused fracturing fluids and
acids, painting wastes, refinery wastes, used lubrication or hydraulic
oils, waste solvents, caustic or acid cleaners, boiler cleaning wastes,
sanitary wastes, pesticide wastes, and radioactive tracer wastes.
Releases of non-exempt wastes
even when released on an oil lease, are not exempt and should use the General
Environmental Incident Report Form link below.
Go to the Oilfield
Related Incident Report Form
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This form should be used for any environmental
incident or release that is not exempt under the RCRA oilfield exemptions. This
will generally include:
- Any incident which may potentially
have adverse effects to human health or the environment.
- Any incident or spill which may
potentially result in pollution of waters of the state, either surface
water or ground water.
- Specific minimum quantities for
mandatory reporting of spills have not been established. All incidents
which may potentially impact human health or safety, waters of the state,
either surface water or ground water, or other impacts to the environment,
must be reported.
- All substances are
included, not just "hazardous materials." Recent examples that
a person may not normally think of as having a potential impact to the
environment, include "non toxic" substances such as molasses or
salt. These may not be immediately harmful to human health, but they may
impact aquatic life or soil fertility.
Please Note:
- Sometimes an environmental
incident does not actually result in a release to the environment, but
should still be reported. Examples might include the loss of a sealed
radiation source or a traffic accident involving hazardous chemicals, even
if the containers did not break open.
Go to the
General Environmental Incident Report Form (also use for non-exempt oilfield related incidents)
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Use this form to report a fish kill even if the
cause is not known. If the cause is a known spill then also use one of the
Environmental Incident Report Forms shown above.
Go to the Fish Kill
Report Form
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