US Congress House Bill 2850 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on July 30 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-10-23 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Improvement Act

Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]

Sen. Cynthia Lummis [R-WY]

Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-10-23	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
2013-10-23	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 113-252.
2013-08-01	House	Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
2013-08-01	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2013-07-30	House	Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

HB4304 (Related) 2014-06-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
HB2 (Related) 2014-11-17 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 601.
HB5360 (Related) 2014-09-15 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2850/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2850/BILLS-113hr2850ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2850/BILLS-113hr2850rh.pdf