3.0.0 3763 2024-07-24T15:21:50Z 2024-07-24T15:21:50Z House H HR 2023-05-31 118 [Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 31, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. CRAWFORD:H.R. 3763.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution.The single subject of this legislation is:To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of2014 with respect to the application of the Spill Prevention,Control, and Countermeasure rule to certain farms, and forother purposes.[Page H2708]]]> hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee House Standing hspw02 Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Referred to 2023-06-01T17:33:53Z Referred to 2023-05-31T18:01:15Z 2023-06-01 hspw02 Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Committee 2023-05-31 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2023-05-31 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2023-05-31 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress C001087 Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] Eric Crawford R AR A. "Rick" 1 N G000546 Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6] SAM GRAVES R MO 6 2023-05-31 True R000603 Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] David Rouzer R NC 7 2023-06-15 False Environmental Protection Agricultural conservation and pollution 2023-09-15T20:59:01Z Energy storage, supplies, demand 2023-09-15T20:59:01Z Environmental regulatory procedures 2023-09-15T20:59:01Z Farmland 2023-09-15T20:59:01Z Motor fuels 2023-09-15T20:59:01Z Oil and gas 2023-09-15T20:59:00Z Pollution liability 2023-09-15T20:59:00Z Water quality 2023-09-15T20:59:00Z Environmental Protection 2023-07-13T13:30:31Z 00 2023-05-31 Introduced in House 2023-07-25T13:50:32Z Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act

This bill increases thresholds for requiring a farm to have a plan to address oil spills.

Currently, regulations require a farm to have an oil spill control and prevention plan that is certified by a professional engineer if the farm's aboveground oil storage capacity is above a certain threshold or if the farm has a reportable oil discharge history. A farm with lower aboveground storage capacity and no reportable history is either allowed to self-certify its plan or not required to have a plan at all, depending on the farm's storage capacity.    

Under the bill, the Environmental Protection Agency must require a farm to have a professionally certified plan if the farm has an aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity of 40,000 gallons or more, whereas the current threshold is 20,000 gallons. The bill also raises the aggregate capacity thresholds at which a farm with no reportable oil discharge history may self-certify its plan or is not required to have a plan.

The bill also limits when a farm's aboveground oil storage containers on separate parcels shall count toward the farm's oil storage capacity for the purposes of these thresholds.

]]> FUELS Act Display Title 45 FUELS Act 2024-07-24T15:21:50Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 FUELS Act 2024-05-24T13:39:17Z Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act 2024-05-24T13:39:17Z Introduced in House IH Official Title as Introduced 6 To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 with respect to the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule to certain farms, and for other purposes. 2024-03-18T20:55:41Z Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr3763ih/xml/BILLS-118hr3763ih.xml 2023-06-01 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. 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.