North Dakota Century Code Title 38. Mining and Gas and Oil Production § 38-08-26. Submission of geographic information system data on oil and gas underground gathering pipelines required

1. The commission shall create a geographic information system database for collecting pipeline shape files as submitted by each underground gathering pipeline owner or operator. The shape files and the resulting geographic information system database are exempt from any disclosure to parties outside the commission and are confidential except as provided in this section. The information may be used by the commission in furtherance of the commission's duties.

2. An owner or operator of an underground gathering pipeline shall submit to the commission, in a time period no longer than one hundred eighty days of putting any underground gathering pipeline into service, a shape file showing the centerline of the pipeline. Upon abandonment of any underground gathering pipeline, the owner or operator shall submit, in a time period no longer than one hundred eighty days of abandonment, to the commission an updated shape file reflecting the pipeline or portion of a pipeline that has been abandoned. For an oil and gas underground gathering pipeline that is in service after August 1, 2011, and before August 1, 2013, the owner or operator or most recent owner or operator shall submit, within eighteen months from August 1, 2013, shape files for all existing underground gathering pipelines, including any known abandoned pipeline.

3. Upon a written request by the owner or tenant of the real property regarding underground gathering pipelines located within the bounds of the real property owned or leased by that property owner or tenant, the commission shall provide to the owner or tenant the requested information. The commission may not include information, if available, on any underground gathering pipeline that exists outside the bounds of the real property owned or leased by the requesting party.

4. Upon request by the tax commissioner, the commission may allow access to information contained in the geographic information system database to the tax commissioner to be used for the sole purpose of administering the valuation and assessment of centrally assessed underground gathering pipeline property under chapter 57-06. The information obtained under this subsection is confidential and may be used only for the purposes identified in this subsection.

5. The surface owner may share information contained in the geographic information system database.