Ballot Title Setting Board
2015-2016

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a statewide setback requirement for wells associated with oil and gas development, and, in connection therewith, changing setback requirements to require any new or re-entered well associated with oil and gas development in the state to be located at least 4,000 feet from the nearest occupied structure or other specified or locally designated area; requiring a local government to prohibit any new occupied structure or other specified or locally designated area from being built or designated less than 4,000 feet from the nearest active well associated with oil and gas development; and authorizing the state or a local government to require a new well associated with oil and gas development to be located more than 4,000 feet from the nearest occupied structure.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning a statewide setback requirement for wells associated with oil and gas development, and, in connection therewith, changing setback requirements to require any new or re-entered well associated with oil and gas development in the state to be located at least 4,000 feet from the nearest occupied structure or other specified or locally designated area; requiring a local government to prohibit any new occupied structure or other specified or locally designated area from being built or designated less than 4,000 feet from the nearest active well associated with oil and gas development; and authorizing the state or a local government to require a new well associated with oil and gas development to be located more than 4,000 feet from the nearest occupied structure?

Hearing February 3, 2016

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 2:14 PM.

Rehearing February 17, 2016

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made changes to the titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 11:39 AM.

* Unofficially captioned “Mandatory Setback for Oil and Gas Wells" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.