The EPA Region 5 UIC Branch has prepared guidance documents to help injection well owners and operators comply with the UIC regulations and conditions of their permits.
See also UIC in EPA Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI)
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- Region 5 Guidance 1: Casing and Cementing Policy for Substandard Class II Injection Wells: (PDF)(1 pg, 136 K, June 20, 1986)
- Region 5 Guidance 3: Determination of Underground Sources of Drinking Water (PDF)(3 pp, 17 K, Feb. 5, 1987)
- Region 5 Guidance 4: Plugging and Abandoning Injection Wells Class I-V (PDF)(12 pp, 121 K, Dec. 22, 1994)
- Region 5 Guidance 5: Determination of the Mechanical Integrity of Injection Wells (PDF)(27 pp, 231 K, February 2008)
- Region 5 Draft Guidance 6: Planning, Executing, and Reporting Pressure Transient Tests (PDF)(27 pp, 215 K, 11-20-1990)
- Region 5 Guidance 6: Planning, Executing, and Reporting Pressure Transient Tests (PDF)(27 pp, 158 K, April 1998)
- Region 5 Guidance 7: Determination of Maximum Injection Pressure for Class I Wells (PDF)(9 pp, 112 K, January 1994)
- Region 5 Guidance 8: Preparing a Waste Analysis Plan at Class I Injection Well Facilities (PDF)(8 pp, 45 K, Jan. 21, 1994)
- Region 5 Guidelines for Class I Well Monitoring Plans (PDF)(10 pp, 89 K, October 1989)
- Region 5 Guidance: Supplemental Guidelines for Plans and Operations of Monitoring Wells at Class I Injection Facilities (PDF)(20 pp, 186 K, Feb. 28, 1991)
- Region 5 Guidance: Field Rules Fracture Pressure Pressure Gradient Values for Certain Oil Fields in Michigan (PDF)(2 pp, 179 K, 1993)
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Region 5 Guidance: UIC Land Ban Instruction Sheet (PDF)(55 pp, 276 K,
July 20, 2006)
Information sheet for owner/operators of class 1HQ injection wells who are submittting simultaneous applications for permits and petitions for exemptions from the RCRA land ban or new demonstrations for existing exemptions