Ballot Title Setting Board
2017-2018

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

A change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a statewide minimum distance requirement for new oil and gas development, and, in connection therewith, changing existing distance requirements to require that any new oil and gas development be located at least 2,500 feet from any structure intended for human occupancy and any other area designated by the measure, the state, or a local government and authorizing the state or a local government to increase the minimum distance requirement.

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

Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes concerning a statewide minimum distance requirement for new oil and gas development, and, in connection therewith, changing existing distance requirements to require that any new oil and gas development be located at least 2,500 feet from any structure intended for human occupancy and any other area designated by the measure, the state, or a local government and authorizing the state or a local government to increase the minimum distance requirement?

Hearing January 17, 2018

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 10:15 AM.

Rehearing February 7, 2018

Motion for Rehearing granted only to the extent that the Board made amendments to the Fiscal Abstract and the titles.
Hearing adjourned 2:00 PM.

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