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BOE Meeting Minutes <br /> June 3, 2025 <br /> Page 3 <br /> i. 2025 CE Log of Courses - total of 66 courses/meetings to date (40 <br /> online, 26 in person) <br /> c. Well Inspection Program <br /> i. Well Permit Counts <br /> 1. Chris Jones presented the report <br /> 2. More permits and reports come in through the first quarter <br /> 3. Still unable to determine what the results mean for 2025 <br /> ii. Well Inspection Report <br /> 1. Chris Jones presented the report <br /> 2. Majority of inspections in Divisions 1, 2 and 3, where high-risk <br /> wells are primarily located <br /> 3. Chris Sanchez noted that the Inspection Team has improved <br /> coverage across all divisions <br /> iii. Variance Report <br /> 1. Marques Hatfield presented the report <br /> a. Number of requests increasing per year <br /> b. Infiltration galleries and well vaults have decreased with <br /> a peak in 2023 <br /> c. All other variances are increasing <br /> 2. Chris Sanchez and Todd Hunter asked for clarification regarding <br /> the tracking and details of variance denials <br /> a. Marques Hatfield stated that denials are tracked and that <br /> they skew the numbers since multiple denials might be <br /> issued to a set of wells and denials are usually appealed <br /> b. Chris Jones stated that denials start as variance requests <br /> which, due to deficiencies in the construction plan, are <br /> denied internally by Staff, but they then get appealed to <br /> the Board and are once again marked as variance <br /> requests rather than appeals <br /> 3. Todd Hunter asked how many casing and grout variances are <br /> handled by Staff <br /> a. Chris Jones responded that most of those variances <br /> involve an allowance for shorter casing and grout in Type <br /> II and Type III wells, which are handled internally <br /> 4. Staff stated that denial details can be separated out in a future <br /> report <br /> 12. Proposed Well Construction Rule Changes <br /> a. Upcoming Steps and Publishing Deadlines <br /> i. Kevin Donegan outlined the next steps <br />