The Board of Minerals and Environment shall promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, to regulate the capping, sealing, and plugging of all test holes drilled pursuant to a permit issued under this chapter. Such rules shall provide for the capping, sealing, and plugging of all such test holes, the prevention of any artesian flow of groundwater toward the surface, and the prevention of fluid communication between aquifers.

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Source: SL 1982, ch 307, § 34.