US Congress Senate Bill 1554 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on June 11 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

FRESHER Act of 2015 Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to require a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharges of stormwater runoff from: (1) mining operations; (2) oil and gas operations; or (3) transmission facilities for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff that are not contaminated by contact with any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products located on the site of the operations. The Department of the Interior must study stormwater runoff associated with oil or gas operations, including an analysis of: (1) measurable contamination, (2) groundwater resources, and (3) the susceptibility of aquifers to contamination from stormwater runoff associated with the operations.

FRESHER Act of 2015 Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2015

Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-11	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

HB1460 (Related) 2015-03-20 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1554/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1554/BILLS-114s1554is.pdf