US Congress Senate Bill 15 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-06-09 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to prohibit the Department of the Interior from enforcing any federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing (including any component of that process), relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land in any state that has regulations, guidance, or permit requirements for that activity. Requires Interior to recognize and defer to state regulations, permitting, and guidance, for all activities regarding hydraulic fracturing relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on federal land regardless of whether those rules are duplicative, more or less restrictive, have different requirements, or do not meet federal regulations, guidance, or permit requirements. Defines "hydraulic fracturing" as the process by which fracturing fluids (including a fracturing fluid system) are pumped into an underground geologic formation to generate fractures or cracks, thereby increasing rock permeability near the wellbore and improving production of natural gas or oil.

Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act

Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]

Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]

Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-09	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
2015-01-06	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

HB1647 (Related) 2015-06-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/15/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s15/BILLS-114s15is.pdf