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Filing - Permit Issuer Response to Petition for Review


Additional Attachments

  • Attachment 1 - Class II UIC Permit Application for West Bay 22 SWD; West Bay Exploration Company, dated March 20, 2011 (PDF) (6.22 MB)

  • Attachment 2 - Plaintiff’s Complaint, Bormuth v. Environmental Appeals Board et al. (D.D.C. June 25, 2013) (No. 13-CV-00958) (PDF) (2.94 MB)

  • Attachment 3 - Order, Bormuth v. Environmental Appeals Board et al. (D.D.C. Nov. 26, 2013) (No. 13-CV-00958) (PDF) (0.03 MB)

  • Attachment 4 - Petition for Review, Bormuth v. Environmental Appeals Board et al. (6th Cir. Mar. 5, 2014) (No. 13-4411) (PDF) (0.77 MB)

  • Attachment 5 - Order, Bormuth v. Environmental Appeals Board et al. (6th Cir. Mar. 16, 2015) (No. 13-4411) (PDF) (0.28 MB)

  • Attachment 6 - Order, Bormuth v. Environmental Appeals Board et al. (6th Cir. Nov. 25, 2015) (No. 13-4411) (PDF) (0.15 MB)

  • Attachment 7 - memorandum to file regarding geologic siting, dated October 2014 (PDF) (2.72 MB)

  • Attachment 8 - Draft UIC Permit No. MI-075-2D-0009, West Bay 22 SWD, including Statement of Basis for Issuance of Underground Injection Control (UIC) Permit (PDF) (2.22 MB)

  • Attachment 9 - Public notice, public comment period for draft UIC Permit No. MI-075-2D-0009, dated October 2014 (PDF) (2.12 MB)

  • Attachment 10 - Partial transcript of public hearing for draft UIC Permit No. MI-075-2D-0009, November 20, 2014 (cover, pp. 1-2, 22-29, 32-34, 36-37) (PDF) (0.3 MB)

  • Attachment 11 - Response to Comments dated December 8, 2015, regarding UIC Permit No. MI-075-2D-0009 (PDF) (1.36 MB)

  • Attachment 12 - Final UIC Permit No. MI-075-2D-0009, dated December 8, 2015 (PDF) (0.99 MB)

  • Attachment 13 - Excerpts from Hydrogeology for Underground Injection Control in Michigan: Part I, aka Michigan Hydrogeological Atlas (Western Michigan University, Department of Geology, 1981) (pp. i-ii, I-1-11, II-41-58, II-76-83, II-85-86, II-89-93) (PDF) (4.13 MB)

  • Attachment 14 - F.G. Bell et al., A review of the engineering behavior of soils and rocks with respect to groundwater, Groundwater in Engineering Geology, pp. 1-23 (1986) (PDF) (2.02 MB)

  • Attachment 15 - memorandum to file regarding induced seismicity, dated October 2014 (PDF) (0.18 MB)

  • Attachment 16 - Region 5 injection modeling, dated October 25, 2012 (PDF) (7.84 MB)

Link to Filing (PDF )
Appeal Number(s)UIC 15-03
Filing Number25
Filing Date02/01/2016
Case NameWest Bay Exploration Co

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