The commission has authority: 1. Over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce this chapter and its objectives. 2. To regulate activities relating to a storage facility, including construction, operation, and closure. 3. To enter, at a reasonable time and manner, a storage facility to inspect equipment and facilities; to observe, monitor, and investigate operations; and to inspect records required to be maintained at the facility. 4. To require that storage operators provide assurance, including bonds, that money is available to fulfill the storage operator's duties. 5. To exercise continuing jurisdiction over storage operators and storage facilities, including the authority, after notice and hearing, to amend provisions in a permit and to revoke a permit. 6. To dissolve or change the boundaries of any commission-established oil or gas field or unit that is within or near a storage reservoir's boundaries. 7. To grant, for good cause, exceptions to this chapter's requirements and implementing rules.
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