Bill > HR6768

This bill, the Fracking Disclosure and Safety Act, aims to re-establish certain hydraulic fracturing (fracking) chemical disclosure rules, standards for well construction, and waste management rules. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring the Bureau of Land Management to issue regulations governing the use of hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, including provisions for baseline water testing prior to fracking operations and full public disclosure of the chemicals used. 2. Closing certain legal loopholes by amending the Safe Drinking Water Act to include hydraulic fracturing as part of the underground injection that is regulated, and requiring disclosure of chemicals used in fracking operations as well as the ability to access proprietary chemical formulas in medical emergencies. 3. Amending the Clean Water Act to limit certain permit requirements related to oil and gas operations and studying the potential contamination of stormwater runoff from these activities. 4. Repealing an exemption in the Clean Air Act that allowed for the aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources, and designating hydrogen sulfide as a hazardous air pollutant. 5. Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to determine whether drilling fluids, produced waters, and other wastes from oil, gas, and geothermal energy production should be identified or listed as hazardous waste, and to promulgate regulations for the management of such wastes.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business and Industry

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