H.R. 4811 · 118th Congress
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
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Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jul 20, 2023
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
This bill 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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2023
Latest action (Jul 21, 2023): Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
Policy area: Environmental Protection · Origin: House · Introduced: Jul 20, 2023
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.