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Brown only one to get custom oil map
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — State officials have defended Gov. Jerry Brown’s request to have regulators map and study his family’s ranch for oil, gas and mining potential — arguing that the work by the state was nothing the agency wouldn’t do for other members of the public.But The Associated Press found no records that show anyone else received the same level of service on private land — and one state lawmaker was even told that state officials couldn’t help him map oil wells that were potentially endangering drinking water supplies in his Southern California district.The state provided the AP late Thursday with dozens of pages of what they said were similar examples to what Brown received in June 2014 when he asked state regulators with the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to research and map his family’s 2,700-acre ranch. The new records appear to show occasions when state oil regulators provided public entities and officials with existing maps, or passed along screen-saves from the state agency’s websites.None of the new records showed anyone getting a custom map of private property, or assessment of their land’s oil and gas and mineral potential — both of which Brown got from state regulators last year.The AP first reported last week on the oil and gas map and 51 pages of records, mapping and assessment that Brown commissioned from the state’s oil and gas agency.
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