North Dakota has established a trust fund that pays for long-term monitoring and maintenance of transferred carbon dioxide, and stipulated conditions for ownership to pass to the state.
Limits private liability for sequestration of captured carbon dioxide by transferring ownership of sequestered carbon dioxide to the state after 10 years.
Authorizes the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to regulate the integrity of CO2 pipelines used for transporting CO2 for enhanced oil recovery or geologic sequestration.
Holds that CO2 pipeline companies may exercise eminent domain authority to obtain easements required for constructing, operating, and maintaining their pipelines.
Identifies CO2 pipelines as eligible for common carrier status. CO2 transport pipeline owners and operators may apply for a right-of-way to construct pipelines over public roads and highways.
Identifies procedures for the Illinois Commerce Commission to authorize the construction of carbon dioxide pipelines, including through the exercise of eminent domain authority to acquire easements in property.
Authorizes the exercise of eminent domain authority for carbon dioxide pipelines which have received construction certificates from the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Siting.
Carbon dioxide pipeline project sponsors have eminent domain authority.
Authorizes owners and operators of CO2 pipelines to have common carrier status if they consent in writing to being subject to the common carrier requirements.
Authorized parties injecting CO2 for geologic storage projects approved by the Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation to expropriate surface rights and other property interests to build CO2 pipelines where a price cannot be agreed upon.