Welcome to the Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Oil and Gas Development Website
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The Natural Resources Law Center and its partners welcome you to this free-access website of best management practices (BMPs) for oil and gas development in the Intermountain West. The structure and content of this website has been developed in conjunction with project partners and advisors from government, industry, the conservation community, academia and landowners.

The focus of this website is a searchable database addressing surface resources affected by oil and gas development. The database includes both mandatory and voluntary best practices currently in use and/or recommended for responsible resource management in the states of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

The BMP database is not intended to represent a consensus on BMPs for specific applications nor to make recommendations of practices for specific locations. Rather, the database describes each practice and documents the source of the practice (who requires or recommends it in what specific applications). The database provides a link to the source of the BMP and, where possible, it provides supplemental information, including construction specifications, illustrations, pictures, maps, monitoring reports, and evaluations of the potential of the practice for mitigating impacts of development.

At the TABS above, the website provides:

• Searchable database for oil and gas BMPs (BMP SEARCH)
• GLOSSARY of Terms
• List of ACRONYMS
• LAWS: Links to federal, state, and local laws, regulations, ordinances, and policies
• LINKS to other databases, websites, agencies and organizations

Staff of the NRLC will continue to expand the database as new materials become available. In addition, this website provides an avenue for database users to provide additional information, comments, and critiques of the included practices. To add comments or suggest additional resources, go to the ADD INFO tab.