US Congress House Bill 1515 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: Introduced on March 19 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2015 This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states, in order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for a state underground injection control program, to prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the person proposing to conduct the hydraulic fracturing operations agrees to conduct testing and report data in accordance with this bill. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation. Regulations under such Act for state underground injection control programs must require any person conducting such hydraulic fracturing operations to: (1) conduct testing of underground sources of drinking water in accordance with sampling and testing requirements described in this bill, and (2) report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the results of such testing. Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur. The EPA must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of testing results.

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2015

Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Alan Grayson [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
2015-03-19	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2015-03-19	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1515/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1515/BILLS-114hr1515ih.pdf