Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2021
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Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2021 This bill revises drinking water requirements concerning hydraulic fracturing (fracking) 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 geologic formation. The bill gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to protect groundwater sources (e.g., wells) from certain pollution risks posed by fracking operations. The bill also establishes requirements for disclosing the chemicals intended for use in fracking operations as well as the chemicals actually used in the operations. If the proprietary chemical formulas of chemicals used in fracking operations are necessary for treatment in medical emergencies, then the operations must disclose the formulas or the specific chemical identities of trade secret chemicals to the state, the EPA, or the treating physicians or nurses upon request, regardless of whether written statements of need or confidentiality agreements have been provided.
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2021 · second_quarter · Clean Air and Water (quality)
HOUSE: H.R.2133 : FRESHER Act (Support) H.R.2164 : SHARED Act (Support) H.R.2202 : FRAC Act (Support) H.R.2302 : CLOSE Act (Support) H.R.2415 : Orphaned Well Clean-up and Jobs Act (Support) H.R. 3684 : INVEST in America Act (Support) SENATE: S. 914 : Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 (DWWIA 2021)(Support) NOT YET INTRODUCED: NYI : Public Health Air Quality Act (Support)
Client expense: $90,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
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Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
2021 · first_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1492 - Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2021 H.R.1503 - To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to make certain adjustments in leasing on Federal lands for oil and gas drilling, and for other purposes H.R.1505 - To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to make certain adjustments to the regulation of surface-disturbing activities and to protect taxpayers from unduly bearing the reclamation costs of oil and gas development, and for other purposes H.R.1506 - To provide for the accurate reporting of fossil fuel extraction and emissions by entities with leases on public land, and for other purposes. H.R.1517 - To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to make certain adjustments to the fiscal terms for fossil fuel development and to make other reforms to improve returns to taxpayers for the development of Federal energy resources, and for other purposes H.R.2132 - o require regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and for other purposes H.R.2133 - To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study with respect to stormwater runoff from oil and gas operations, and for other purposes H.R.2202 - To repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes H.R.2302 - To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes
Client expense: $131,449 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE
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