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PANELISTS CASSIE ARCHULETA AIR QUALITY PROGRAM MANAGER CITY OF FORT COLLINS 7/18/2019 Cassie Archuleta Environmental Program Manager 2 O&G Concerns Regional Issues Local Issues Ozone non-attainment New housing development

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CASSIE ARCHULETA

AIR QUALITY PROGRAM MANAGER CITY OF FORT COLLINS

PANELISTS

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Cassie Archuleta Environmental Program Manager

7/18/2019

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O&G Concerns

Regional Issues

  • Ozone non-attainment
  • Upstream NOX and VOC

emissions

  • Climate Change
  • Upstream GHG emissions

Local Issues

  • New housing development near

existing wells

  • New O&G development at existing

wells

  • New drilling, emissions, spills and

emergency response plans

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Wells by the Numbers

  • Colorado: 52,749 Active Wells
  • Weld County: 21,148 Active Wells
  • Larimer County: 247 Active Wells
  • City of Fort Collins
  • 10 Active Wells
  • 3 Producing
  • 5 Injecting
  • 2 Shut-In
  • One Operator
  • Prospect Energy
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Timeline

Oil and Gas

1924

  • First well

drilled in Fort Collins field 1992

  • Most

recent well drilled 2013

  • 5-Year

moratoriu m on fracking

  • Operator’s

Agreement

  • Land Use

Code (reciprocal setbacks) 2016

  • Colorado

Supreme Court decision – moratoriu m rejected 2018

  • Land Use

Code updates

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2019-2021 City Council Priority

Mitigate impacts of oil and gas encroachment into Growth Management Area

  • Reduce or eliminate surface impacts of oil and gas

production within the growth management areas

  • Evaluate the impact and needed/desired changes as a

result of Senate Bill 181 through a robust public engagement process

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Oil Extraction in NE Fort Collins

Producing Injecting Shut-In Abandone d City Limits

Well Status

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New Proposed Development

Active (IJ) Active (IJ) Active (PR) Active (SI) Inactive (PA)

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Near Term

  • Potential recompletion at Shut-In well
  • Operator required to meet with City staff prior to permit submittal

(per Operators Agreement)

  • Work with COGCC, operator and developer to address concerns

before approval

  • What are proposed land use changes?
  • Form 2A required?
  • Consideration of a Moratorium pending local Land Use

Code updates?

Next Steps

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Longer Term

  • Land Use Code Updates?
  • Zoning restrictions
  • Monitoring, inspection and reporting programs
  • Development review procedures
  • Emergency preparedness plan requirements
  • Setbacks
  • Regional Regulatory Framework?
  • Larimer County Task Force – implications for GMA
  • City owned natural areas

Next Steps

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Cassie Archuleta Environmental Services - Air Quality Program Manager Oil and Gas – Local Government Designee carchuleta@fcgov.com 970-416-2648

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Air Pollution Trends

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Fort Collins West Monitor

Modeled Ozone for Top 10 days (Avg. = 70.7 ppb)

Modeled Ozone Attribution

Data from Denver 2017c Local Source Analysis, available through http://views.cira.colostate.edu/tsdw/

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Fort Collins Modeled Data Summary

O&G Contribution Mobile Contribution Data from 2017 Fort Collins NCAR Summary (www.fcgov.com/airquality/reports)

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