3.0.0 15 2023-01-11T13:28:53Z 2023-01-11T13:28:53Z Senate S 2015-01-06 114 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2015-06-09T14:08:34Z Referred to 2015-01-06T19:09:30Z Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act 114 1647 HR 2015-06-05 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Related bill CRS 2015-06-09 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Committee 2015-01-06 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2015-01-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2015-03-17 False B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY 2015-03-17 False Energy Administrative law and regulatory procedures Alternative and renewable resources Department of the Interior Intergovernmental relations Licensing and registrations Oil and gas State and local government operations Energy 00 2015-01-06 Introduced in Senate 2015-01-13T20:21:45Z 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 Display Title Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to recognize the authority of States to regulate oil and gas operations and promote American energy security, development, and job creation, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act Introduced in Senate 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s15is/xml/BILLS-114s15is.xml 2015-06-09 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. 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.