US Congress House Bill 1902 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 39)
Status: Introduced on April 21 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protect Our Public Lands Act This bill amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require a lease on public land for developing deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas, and other hydrocarbons to prohibit a lessee from conducting hydraulic fracturing activity under the lease. 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. The bill excludes from hydraulic fracturing any enhanced secondary recovery, including water flooding, tertiary recovery, and other types of well stimulation operations. The bill is applicable only upon the renewal or adjustment of a lease.

Protect Our Public Lands Act

Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]
Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]
Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]
Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2015-04-21	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2015-04-21	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1902/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1902/BILLS-114hr1902ih.pdf