HR 1175 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

FRESHER Act of 2013

Introduced Mar 14, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Matt Cartwright D-PA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 15, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedMar 14, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2013 or the FRESHER Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to repeal provisions prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring or directing a state to require a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharges of stormwater runoff from mining, oil, and gas operations or transmission facilities composed entirely of flows from conveyances used for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff that are not contaminated by contact with any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products located on the site of such operations.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report on stormwater impacts with respect to any area that may be contaminated by stormwater runoff associated with oil or gas operations, including an analysis of: (1) measurable contamination in such area, (2) ground water resources in such area, and (3) the susceptibility of aquifers in such area to contamination from stormwater runoff associated with such operations.

Cosponsors 71

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 14, 2013 to May 30, 2014, with 42 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-NEAdrian SmithOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-FLAlan GraysonOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CAAlan S. LowenthalOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-PAAllyson Y. SchwartzOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-PAChaka FattahOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-MEChellie PingreeOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-MDChris Van HollenOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-MDDonna F. EdwardsOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-MIGary C. PetersOriginalMar 14, 2013
D-VAGerald E. ConnollyOriginalMar 14, 2013
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 15, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
  2. Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Mar 14, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.

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  1. Mar 14, 2013Introduced in House

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