EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act
Latest action · Oct 23, 2013 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
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.
- IntroducedJul 30, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conducting the study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, with respect to which a request for information was issued in November 2012, to:
- prior to issuance and dissemination of any final or interim report summarizing EPA research on such relationship, consider such reports to be Highly Influential Scientific Assessments requiring peer review in accordance with specified EPA and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) policy documents;
- require the reports to meet the standards and procedures for the dissemination of influential scientific, financial, or statistical information set forth in the EPA'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 OMB under the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001; and
- ensure that identification of the possible impacts 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, and that estimates or descriptions of probability, uncertainty, and consequence are 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.
Requires public release of the final report by September 30, 2016.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 30, 2013.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-UT | Chris Stewart | Original | Jul 30, 2013 |
| R-WY | Cynthia M. Lummis | Original | Jul 30, 2013 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Jul 30, 2013Markup Aug 1, 2013Reported Oct 23, 2013 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2013Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 113-252.
- Oct 23, 2013Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
- Aug 1, 2013Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Aug 1, 2013Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Jul 30, 2013Introduced in House
- Jul 30, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Sep 9, 2013H.R. 2850, EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act of 2013As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on August 1, 2013
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H5174.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R41760 | Hydraulic Fracturing and Safe Drinking Water Act Regulatory Issues | Report | Jul 13, 2015 |
| R43148 | An Overview of Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas: Resources and Federal Actions | Report | Apr 22, 2015 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2 | American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act | Related bill | Nov 17, 2014 |
| HR 4304 | Jumpstarting Opportunities with Bold Solutions Act | Related bill | Jun 13, 2014 |
| HR 5360 | American Renaissance in Manufacturing Act | Related bill | Sep 15, 2014 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require certain procedures in the conduct by the Environmental Protection Agency of its study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 23, 2013Reported in House
- Jul 30, 2013Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
