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HR 1902 114th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources General public lands matters Land use and conservation Oil and gas

Protect Our Public Lands Act

Introduced: April 21, 2015 Introduced by: Pocan, Mark Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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May 19, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Apr 21, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Apr 21, 2015
Introduced in House
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Protect Our Public Lands Act

This bill amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require a lease on public land for developing deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas, and other hydrocarbons to prohibit a lessee from conducting hydraulic fracturing activity under the lease. 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. The bill excludes from hydraulic fracturing any enhanced secondary recovery, including water flooding, tertiary recovery, and other types of well stimulation operations.

The bill is applicable only upon the renewal or adjustment of a lease.

What's happening now May 19, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 19
All 19 Democratic 19
D
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Florida · Sep 6, 2016
 D
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
New York · Feb 1, 2016
 D
Adams, Alma S.
North Carolina · Jan 11, 2016
 D
Meng, Grace
New York · Nov 30, 2015
 D
Schiff, Adam B.
California · Nov 16, 2015
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Oct 23, 2015
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Sep 25, 2015
 D
Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Jul 16, 2015
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Jun 15, 2015
 D
Lieu, Ted
California · May 18, 2015
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · May 8, 2015
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Apr 23, 2015
 D
Pingree, Chellie
Maine · Apr 23, 2015
 D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
New Jersey · Apr 23, 2015
 D
DeSaulnier, Mark
California · Apr 21, 2015
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Apr 21, 2015
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Apr 21, 2015
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Apr 21, 2015
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Apr 21, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1902: Protect Our Public Lands Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1902/
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"H.R. 1902: Protect Our Public Lands Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1902/.
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H.R. 1902, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1902/.
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