US Congress House Bill 3604 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-0)
Status: Introduced on June 28 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-07-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Pending: House Environment and Climate Change Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires hydraulic fracturing operations to test for and report on underground sources of drinking water that are contaminated by such operations. 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. Specifically, this bill revises requirements governing state underground injection control programs. In order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for such programs, states must prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the hydraulic fracturing operations agree to test for and report on contamination of drinking water. 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 Environmental Protection Agency must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of the testing results.

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2019

Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Joseph Neguse [D-CO]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-07-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
2019-06-28	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2019-06-28	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3604/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr3604/BILLS-116hr3604ih.pdf