<enum>I</enum> <header>State Authority For Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation</header> <section id="H51C966B840994050B79997815EF05147" section-type="section-one"> <enum>101.</enum> <header>Short title</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act</short-title></quote>.</text> </section> <section id="HA8A5583B5E8747CDBFDF58B1F91D2AA8"> <enum>102.</enum> <header>State authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by redesignating section 44 as section 45, and by inserting after section 43 the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H578F5F9EA2FC42DC8B077F917EEF924F" style="OLC"> <section id="H0944172FECC345418C6FDDF0F12FB888"> <enum>44.</enum> <header>State authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header> <subsection id="H16A6572E7582472AB9E6504A83A85648"> <enum>(a)</enum> <header>In general</header> <text>The Department of the Interior shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land in any State that has regulations, guidance, or permit requirements for that activity.</text> </subsection> <subsection id="H12768223580E41E1BECEE08633AC6A3D"> <enum>(b)</enum> <header>State authority</header> <text>The Department of the Interior shall recognize and defer to State regulations, permitting, and guidance, for all activities related to hydraulic fracturing, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on Federal land regardless of whether those rules are duplicative, more or less restrictive, shall have different requirements, or do not meet Federal guidelines.</text> </subsection> <subsection id="HB8D4CB8B208E408B8AF0D170C1E03F8E"> <enum>(c)</enum> <header>Hydraulic fracturing defined</header> <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section the term <term>hydraulic fracturing</term> means the process by which fracturing fluids (or a fracturing fluid system) are pumped into an underground geologic formation at a calculated, predetermined rate and pressure to generate fractures or cracks in the target formation and thereby increase the permeability of the rock near the wellbore and improve production of natural gas or oil.</text> </subsection> </section> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block> </quoted-block> </section> <section id="HE601F5FC127449B7ABD0F22123731BBE"> <enum>103.</enum> <header>Tribal authority on trust land</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Department of the Interior shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding the underground injection of fluids or propping agents as part of the hydraulic fracturing process, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on any land held in trust or restricted status for the benefit of Indians except with the express consent of the beneficiary on whose behalf such land is held in trust or restricted status.</text> </section>

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[Discussion Draft]

November 13, 2013

113th CONGRESS 1st Session

Rules Committee Print 113-27

H.R. 2728, Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act

[Showing the texts of H.R. 2728, as reported by the Committee on Natural Resources, and H.R. 2850, as reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.]

<enum>I</enum> <header>State Authority For Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation</header> <section id="H51C966B840994050B79997815EF05147" section-type="section-one"> <enum>101.</enum> <header>Short title</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act</short-title></quote>.</text> </section> <section id="HA8A5583B5E8747CDBFDF58B1F91D2AA8"> <enum>102.</enum> <header>State authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by redesignating section 44 as section 45, and by inserting after section 43 the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H578F5F9EA2FC42DC8B077F917EEF924F" style="OLC"> <section id="H0944172FECC345418C6FDDF0F12FB888"> <enum>44.</enum> <header>State authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header> <subsection id="H16A6572E7582472AB9E6504A83A85648"> <enum>(a)</enum> <header>In general</header> <text>The Department of the Interior shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land in any State that has regulations, guidance, or permit requirements for that activity.</text> </subsection> <subsection id="H12768223580E41E1BECEE08633AC6A3D"> <enum>(b)</enum> <header>State authority</header> <text>The Department of the Interior shall recognize and defer to State regulations, permitting, and guidance, for all activities related to hydraulic fracturing, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on Federal land regardless of whether those rules are duplicative, more or less restrictive, shall have different requirements, or do not meet Federal guidelines.</text> </subsection> <subsection id="HB8D4CB8B208E408B8AF0D170C1E03F8E"> <enum>(c)</enum> <header>Hydraulic fracturing defined</header> <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section the term <term>hydraulic fracturing</term> means the process by which fracturing fluids (or a fracturing fluid system) are pumped into an underground geologic formation at a calculated, predetermined rate and pressure to generate fractures or cracks in the target formation and thereby increase the permeability of the rock near the wellbore and improve production of natural gas or oil.</text> </subsection> </section> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block> </quoted-block> </section> <section id="HE601F5FC127449B7ABD0F22123731BBE"> <enum>103.</enum> <header>Tribal authority on trust land</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Department of the Interior shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding the underground injection of fluids or propping agents as part of the hydraulic fracturing process, or any component of that process, relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on any land held in trust or restricted status for the benefit of Indians except with the express consent of the beneficiary on whose behalf such land is held in trust or restricted status.</text> </section> <enum>II</enum> <header>EPA HYDRAULIC FRACTURING RESEARCH</header> <section id="H900EAFBA4CC34B1C871943DA5C88CC66"> <enum>201.</enum> <header>Short title</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote>EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act</quote>.</text> </section> <section id="H9E8D366813354F3ABE6910C130D9610F"> <enum>202.</enum> <header>Epa hydraulic fracturing research</header> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">In conducting its study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, with respect to which a request for information was issued under Federal Register Vol. 77, No. 218, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall adhere to the following requirements:</text> <paragraph id="H1592285BB56D4409B1AE527896FCA5C7"> <enum>(1)</enum> <header>Peer review and information quality</header> <text>Prior to issuance and dissemination of any final report or any interim report summarizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s research on the relationship between hydraulic fracturing and drinking water, the Administrator shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HE6DDBE4FBF4349938879ED4C55C534A7"> <enum>(A)</enum> <text>consider such reports to be Highly Influential Scientific Assessments and require peer review of such reports in accordance with guidelines governing such assessments, as described in—</text> <clause id="H57394F786C914158A9C78BC66DE64400"> <enum>(i)</enum> <text>the Environmental Protection Agency’s Peer Review Handbook 3rd Edition;</text> </clause> <clause id="HA28CB520CE5B44238EC1B64461E814FC"> <enum>(ii)</enum> <text>the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Integrity Policy, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act; and</text> </clause> <clause id="HAEE5A72A1F3E4CE1B05E7C1631562A9B"> <enum>(iii)</enum> <text>the Office of Management and Budget’s Peer Review Bulletin, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act; and</text> </clause> </subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H05263CB9BA7A421AB4512CF5337241E3"> <enum>(B)</enum> <text>require such reports to meet the standards and procedures for the dissemination of influential scientific, financial, or statistical information set forth in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Environmental Protection Agency, developed in response to guidelines issued by the Office of Management and Budget under section 515(a) of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554).</text> </subparagraph> </paragraph> <paragraph id="HA98A88086AA04908B6071A7D55AC11A9"> <enum>(2)</enum> <header>Probability, uncertainty, and consequence</header> <text>In order to maximize the quality and utility of information developed through the study, the Administrator shall ensure that identification of the possible impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources included in such reports be accompanied by objective estimates of the probability, uncertainty, and consequence of each identified impact, taking into account the risk management practices of States and industry. Estimates or descriptions of probability, uncertainty, and consequence shall be as quantitative as possible given the validity, accuracy, precision, and other quality attributes of the underlying data and analyses, but no more quantitative than the data and analyses can support.</text> </paragraph> <paragraph id="H58B25F8170704E8C83C60963691176F8"> <enum>(3)</enum> <header>Release of final report</header> <text>The final report shall be publicly released by September 30, 2016.</text> </paragraph> </section>