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K.S.A. § 55-1202 (2026)

Public interest and welfare

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55-1202. Public interest and welfare. The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more readily available our natural gas resources to the domestic, commercial and industrial consumers of this state, and which provides a better year-round market to the various gas fields, promotes the public interest and welfare of this state.

Therefore in the manner hereinafter provided the commission may find and determine that the underground storage of natural gas as hereinbefore defined is in the public interest.

History: L. 1951, ch. 268, § 2; June 30.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 1985–2019 · leading case: Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 802 P.2d 584 (Kan. 1990).
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Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 802 P.2d 584 (Kan. 1990). “Public policy favoring the storage of natural gas is stated in K.S.A. 55-1202 as follows: “The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation *663 thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more…”
N. Nat. Gas Co. v. L.D. Drilling, Inc., 759 F. Supp. 2d 1282 (D. Kan. 2010). · cites it 2× “K.S.A. § 55-1202. In 1977 and 1978, Northern obtained certificates from the Kansas Corporation Commission and from FERC to develop and operate the Cunningham Storage Field in Pratt and Kingman Counties, Kansas.”
N. Nat. Gas v. Approximately 9117 Acres, 862 F.3d 1221 (10th Cir. 2017). “The original act was enacted to promote the conservation of natural gas in furtherance of “the public interest and welfare of [the] state,” see Kan. Stat. Ann. § 55-1202 , and set forth various provisions to regulate the underground storage of natural gas.”
N. Nat. Gas Co. v. Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P., 217 P.3d 966 (Kan. 2009). “See K.S.A. 55-1202. Further, Northern contends that requiring it to identify when gas migrated outside the storage field would place an impossible evidentiary burden on the injector.”
Anderson v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 699 P.2d 1023 (Kan. 1985). “K.S.A. 55-1202 declares, in substance, that the underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, and which makes natural gas resources more readily available to consumers…”
Williams Nat. Gas Co. v. Supra Energy, Inc., 931 P.2d 7 (Kan. 1997). “This is contrary to the specific language of K.S.A. 55-1202, which states: “The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more readily available our…”
N. Nat. Gas Co. v. L.D. Drilling, Inc., 618 F. Supp. 2d 1280 (D. Kan. 2009). · cites it 2× “K.S.A. § 55-1202. State law provides a mechanism by which the Kansas Corporation Commission may determine when the underground storage of natural gas is in the public interest.”
N. Nat. Gas Co. v. ONEOK Field Servs. Co. (Kan. 2019). · cites it 4× “The Storage Act, enacted in 1951, established procedures for a natural gas public utility to use eminent domain to acquire subsurface property rights for underground storage facilities. K.”
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