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Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2017

1969

115th Congress

Environmental Protection

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

April 6, 2017

Latest Action

April 7, 2017

Primary Sponsor

Janice D. SchakowskyDemocratic(IL)

Momentum (last 30 days)

score

0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

Speed vs cohort

37pct

1d open

vs 7,393 other HR bills in the 115th — cohort avg 50d

Summary

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2017 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 the 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 testing results. 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.

Lobbying filings that explicitly cite this bill (3)

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Filing registrants (2)

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (2)NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (1)

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONclient→NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION

2017 · third_quarter · Energy/Nuclear

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Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets

H.R.1969 - Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2017 H.R.2012 - Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2017 S.941 - Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act

Client expense: $140,539 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R.1969