NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

STATE OF MONTANA

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION

BOARD OF OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

BILLINGS, MT

AUGUST 8 & 9, 2012

CONSERVATION AND PREVENTION OF WAST OF OIL AND GAS )

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Oil and Gas Conservation will hold its regular business meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2012, in the hearing room at its office at 2535 St. Johns Avenue in Billings, Montana. The agenda for that meeting is as follows:

1. Call to order

2. Approval of minutes of June 13, 2012 business meeting

3. Opportunity for public comment

4. Financial report

5. Bond summary

6. Docket summary

7. Staff reports

8. Other business

The Board will conduct public hearings pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 82 of the Montana Code Annotated on the matters described below at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 9, 2012, in the hearing room at its office at 2535 St. Johns Avenue in Billings, Montana. For more information or to request accommodation for a disability, please contact Terri Perrigo at (406) 444-6970 or Tom Richmond at (406) 656-0040 as soon as possible before the scheduled hearing.

Docket 353-2012

SHOW CAUSE HEARING

RESPONDENT: BRENT ZIMMERMAN – VALLEY COUNTY, MONTANA

Upon the Board’s own motion to require Brent Zimmerman to appear and show cause, if any he has, why further fines should not be assessed and/or why his bond should not be forfeited for failure to appear and for failure to clean-up the Heringer 11-21 well located in Section 11, T30N-R44E, Valley County, Montana, as ordered in Board Order 302-2012.

BOARD OF OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

/s/ Terri H. Perrigo

Executive Secretary

(Published July 25, 2012)