North Dakota Code § 38-08-27

Controls, inspections, and engineering design on crude oil and produced
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water underground gathering pipelines.
The application of this section is limited to an underground gathering pipeline that is 
designed or intended to transfer crude oil or produced water from a production facility for 
disposal, storage, or sale purposes and which was placed into service after August 1, 2015. 
Upon request, the operator shall provide the commission the underground gathering pipeline 
engineering construction design drawings and specifications, list of independent inspectors, and 
a plan for leak protection and monitoring for the underground gathering pipeline. Within sixty 
days of an underground gathering pipeline being placed into service, the operator of that 
pipeline shall file with the commission an independent inspector's certificate of hydrostatic or 
pneumatic testing of the underground gathering pipeline.

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