Browsing by Author "Kramer, Bruce M."
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Item The 1970 Clean Air Amendments: Federalism In Action Or Inaction?(Texas Tech Law Review, 1974) Kramer, Bruce M.Observes the monumental changes the 1970 amendments made to environmental law. The author praises the dual system of enforcement and variance approval. Moreover, the author believes that a federal presence limits leniency in regulating clean air practices. In fact, the federal government taking control over clean air policies is in response to state and local government failure to ”clean up air.”Item Federal Legislative and Administrative Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations(Texas Tech Law Review, 2011) Kramer, Bruce M.Explains the role of the federal government in regulating hydraulic fracturing operations has yet to be defined. Ongoing EPA studies are not expected to be completed for several more years at the earliest. The EPA's critical role in the immediate future appears to be focused on scientific investigations into the potential for hydraulic fracturing operations to create public health issues. Reviews the future of an active federal regulatory role in dealing with hydraulic fracturing operations is problematic at best, but one should not simply ignore the potential for federal regulation.Item Oil and Gas Leases and Pooling: A Look Back and A Peek Ahead(Texas Tech Law Review, 2012) Kramer, Bruce M.Provides some historical background on the development and use of the leasehold pooling clause; review interpretational issues that have impacted the clause; review the court-imposed standards of conduct on a lessee's exercise of the pooling power; and, finally, make some recommendations regarding how pooling and unitization clauses can be utilized to deal with the reality of horizontal wellbores, larger spacing units, and the to-date imperfect information regarding drainage patterns that occur after shales and other formations have been hydraulically fractured.Item A Review and Summary of State Laws Regarding the Disposal of Reservior Clearing and Cleaning Debris(Department of Civil Engineering and School of Law, 1977-11) Urban, Lloyd V.; Kramer, Bruce M.; Whetstone, George A.Item The Sisyphean Task of Interpreting Mineral Deeds and Leases: An Encyclopedia of Canons of Construction(Texas Tech Law Review, 1993) Kramer, Bruce M.Focuses on mineral conveyances and the canons of construction for deeds in Texas. Canons of construction can be useful in assisting a court in making "good sense" of inartful drafting. Hence, good drafting can resolve many of the problems that have plagued the Texas conveyancing jurisprudence. The continued adherence to outdated forms as well as the continued confusion as to the nature of the interests owned by the parties after an oil and gas lease has been executed have created difficult interpretational issues. The long and tortured history of dealing with the multiple fraction issue as reflected in Hoffman, Garrett, Alford, Luckel and Jupiter Oil has added to the hidden transaction costs in conveying mineral interests.