S 1234
113th Congress
Senate
Energy
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
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Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act
Introduced: June 26, 2013
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Everywhere this bill has been
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To President
Became law
Jun 26, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jun 26, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act - Grants any state sole authority to promulgate or enforce any regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding the treatment of a well by the application of fluids under pressure to which propping agents may be added for the expressly designed purpose of initiating or propagating fractures in a target geologic formation in order to enhance production of oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under land within the boundaries of that state.
Subjects such a well treatment on federal land to state law as well.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committees of jurisdiction
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