Proponents of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) rule governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands are countering states' claims that Congress intended to address federal regulation of fracking via EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) authority, saying the congressional language of SDWA clearly intended to preserve BLM's authority. "The question is whether Congress intended one regulation to preclude the other, and SDWA says its intent is not to preclude," Hannah Wiseman, an Attorneys' Title Professor at Florida State University College of Law, told lawmakers during a July 15 hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee's energy panel. Wiseman added that SDWA's statutory report language is clear in that it was not intended to preclude regulations implemented by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - BLM's predecessor in governing public lands.
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