{"id":2720,"date":"2012-01-08T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/08\/duplicating-government\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:47:30","slug":"duplicating-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/duplicating-government\/","title":{"rendered":"duplicating government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how many instances of regulatory duplication you can find in the proposed Elbert County Oil and Gas Regulations, and\u00a0regulations already enforced by the COGCC at the state level:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jan-6-2012-draft-oil-gas-regs.pdf\" title=\"Draft Oil and Gas Regulations for Elbert County, 12-27-2011 Version\">Draft Oil and Gas Regulations for Elbert County, 12-27-2011 Version<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/crossreference-020209.pdf\" title=\"Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission - Cross Reference\">Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission &#8211; Cross Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tableofcontents-rules.pdf\" title=\"Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission - Rules and Regulations Table of Contents\">Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission &#8211; Rules and Regulations Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(See the RULES heading at <a href=\"http:\/\/cogcc.state.co.us\/\">http:\/\/cogcc.state.co.us\/<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0detailed rule text.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~<\/p>\n<p>Should there be <em>any<\/em> duplication of regulation between Elbert County and Colorado?\u00a0 <em><strong>No<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Should a county with tight budgetary constraints that has had to materially cut back work hours and numbers of personnel\u00a0be taking on duplicative regulatory functions already addressed by the State of Colorado?\u00a0 <em><strong>No<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~<\/p>\n<p>Elbert County can ill afford an oil and gas regulatory empire headed by a czar of\u00a0Community and Development Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how many instances of regulatory duplication you can find in the proposed Elbert County Oil and Gas Regulations, and\u00a0regulations already enforced by the COGCC at the state level: Draft Oil and Gas Regulations for Elbert County, 12-27-2011 Version Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission &#8211; Cross Reference Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-growing-government","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}