New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVII, Issue 19 / October 6, 2026

NOTICE OF MINOR, NONSUBSTANTIVE CORRECTION

The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Oil Conservation Division, gives Notice of a Minor, Non-substantive Correction to 19.15.8 NMAC.

Pursuant to the authority granted under State Rules Act, Subsection D of Section 14-4-3 NMSA 1978, , and after explanation given by agency, please note that the following minor, non-substantive corrections to spelling, grammar and format have been made to all electronic copies of the above rule, as follows:

Section 9: re-numbered Subsection F is corrected to read:

[D] F. [Inactive wells] Wells that are in approved temporarily abandoned status for more than two years, inactive wells, and wells that are in expired temporarily abandoned status. [An operator shall provide financial assurance for wells that are covered by Subsection A of 19.15.8.9 NMAC that have been in temporarily abandoned status for more than two years] An operator shall provide financial assurance for wells that are in approved temporarily abandoned status for more than two years, in inactive status, or in expired temporarily abandoned status [or for which the operator is seeking approved temporary abandonment pursuant to 19.15.25.13 NMAC] in one of the following categories:

A copy of this Notification will be filed with the official version of the rule. All future electronic versions of this rule shall not have the deleted text within this subsection of Section 9.