3.0.0 6508 2023-01-11T13:33:54Z 2023-01-11T13:33:54Z House HR 2016-12-08 114 [Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 177 (Thursday, December 8, 2016)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. GRIJALVA:H.R. 6508.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8[Page H7570]]]> hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing Referred to 2016-12-08T14:06:20Z 2016-12-08 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2016-12-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2016-12-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress G000551 Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3] Raúl Grijalva D AZ M. 3 N Environmental Protection Environmental Protection 00 2016-12-08 Introduced in House 2017-05-23T17:04:47Z Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act

This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring regulations for state underground injection programs to include provisions designed to prevent the occurrence of seismicity induced by underground injection activities.

The bill redefines "underground injection" to include the subsurface emplacement of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations. Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.

The Environmental Protection Agency must review approved state underground injection programs at least once every five years.

]]> Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act Display Title Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require that underground injection control programs prevent seismicity induced by underground injection activities, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act Introduced in House 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114hr6508ih/xml/BILLS-114hr6508ih.xml 2016-12-08 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.