Bill > HR6082

This bill, known as the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2025, proposes significant changes to the Safe Drinking Water Act regarding hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as "fracking"). The bill would require companies conducting hydraulic fracturing operations to disclose detailed information about the chemicals they use, including a comprehensive list of chemical constituents, their Chemical Abstracts Service numbers, material safety data sheets, and anticipated or actual volumes of chemicals used. Companies must provide this information to the state or federal environmental regulator both before beginning operations and within 30 days after completing them. The bill mandates that this chemical information be made publicly available online, while protecting proprietary chemical formulas from public disclosure. In critical medical emergencies, however, the bill requires companies to immediately disclose the specific chemical identities to treating medical professionals, physicians, or nurses, even without an initial written statement, though they may subsequently request a confidentiality agreement. Additionally, the bill explicitly includes hydraulic fracturing operations under the definition of underground injection, effectively removing a previous exemption and bringing such operations more directly under regulatory oversight.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6082/all-info