EPA Region 5 Guidance for Deep Injection Wells
The EPA Region 5 UIC Branch has prepared guidance documents to help injection well owners and operators comply with the UIC regulations and conditions of their permits. EPA headquarters UIC program has also made information useful to operators available. See National UIC Documents below.
See also UIC in EPA Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI)
National UIC Documents
- UIC Reporting Forms for Owners or Operators (7520 reporting forms)
- Financial Responsibilities for UIC Well Owners or Operators
- UIC Regulations and Safe Drinking Water Act Provisions
- Region 5 Guidance 1: Casing and Cementing Policy for Substandard Class II Injection Wells: (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 3: Determination of Underground Sources of Drinking Water (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 4: Plugging and Abandoning Injection Wells Class I-V (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 5: Determination of the Mechanical Integrity of Injection Wells (pdf)
- Region 5 Draft Guidance 6: Planning, Executing, and Reporting Pressure Transient Tests (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 6: Planning, Executing, and Reporting Pressure Transient Tests (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 7: Determination of Maximum Injection Pressure for Class I Wells (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance 8: Preparing a Waste Analysis Plan at Class I Injection Well Facilities (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidelines for Class I Well Monitoring Plans (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance: Supplemental Guidelines for Plans and Operations of Monitoring Wells at Class I Injection Facilities (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance: Final Fracture Pressure Gradient Values for Certain Oil Fields in Michigan (pdf)
- Region 5 Guidance: Land Ban Information Sheet (pdf)