HR 3604 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2019

Introduced Jun 28, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jul 1, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.

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. IntroducedJun 28, 2019
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2019

This bill requires hydraulic fracturing operations to test for and report on underground sources of drinking water that are contaminated by such operations. 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.

Specifically, this bill revises requirements governing state underground injection control programs. In order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for such programs, states must prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the hydraulic fracturing operations agree to test for and report on contamination of drinking water.

Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur.

The Environmental Protection Agency must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of the testing results.

Cosponsors 26

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 28, 2019 to Sep 24, 2019, with 15 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-CAAdam B. SchiffOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-CODiana DeGetteOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-VADonald S. Beyer, Jr.OriginalJun 28, 2019
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-VAGerald E. ConnollyOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-CAGrace F. NapolitanoOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-CAJared HuffmanOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-COJoe NeguseOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-MDJohn P. SarbanesOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-PAMatt CartwrightOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-CARo KhannaOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-MASeth MoultonOriginalJun 28, 2019
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeOriginalJun 28, 2019
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 1, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
  2. Jun 28, 2019Introduced in House
  3. Jun 28, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Subjects

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

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  1. Jun 28, 2019Introduced in House

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