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C► 4 0 Attachment 3. Amendment to Article S — New Supplemental Design Standards for Oil and Gas extraction Amend Article 5 to add new supplemental standards for Oil and Gas extraction/mining. This sets up supplemental standards that include local regulations that supplement the State rules. 5.41.1 APPLICABILITY This section applies to properties engaged in the surface extraction of subsurface petroleum, shale oil and/or natural gas. Activities include exploration for crude petroleum and natural gas; drilling, completing, and equipping wells; operation of separators, emulsion breakers, de -silting equipment, and field gathering lines; storage yards and other related mining activities. This category includes establishments that produce crude petroleum, that mine and extract oil from shale, that produce natural gas, and that recover hydrocarbon liquids from oil and gas field gases. 5.41.2 COMPLIANCE WITH STATE REGULATIONS. All oil and gas extraction operations shall maintain compliance with North Carolina Administrative Code Title 15A, Subchapter 5H Oil and Gas Conservation (as amended). 5.41.3 ADDITIONAL STANDARDS. 5.41.3.1 Minimum well pad area is five (5) acres. Well pad shall include the area that is cleared or prepared for the drilling of one or more oil or gas wells. The minimum acreage for the well pad area shall be calculated based on total cumulative acreage assembled via ownership or lease across one or more parcels. 5.41.3.2 Such uses shall have direct access to a paved publicly maintained street with a minimum 50 foot right-of-way. Such access shall be connected via an all-weather surface constructed and maintained in accordance with Section 15A NCAC 05H.1503 (as amended). 5.41.3.3 Where abutting residentially zoned or developed parcels, the well pad area shall be screened with a Type D screening buffer yard as set forth in Article 7. 5.41.3.4 Only one (1) ground sign per entrance to the well pad is permitted. Such sign shall not exceed fifty (50) square feet in area. If lighted, such sign may include indirect lighting or non -flashing illumination. Such sign shall also conform to the requirements of Section 15A NCAC 05H .1615 (as amended).