Hydraulic fracturing fracas could compromise domestic industry

摘要

Pending legislation to restrict well-understood practice would leave many questions unanswered. "There's never been federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing," said Lee Fuller, IPAA vice president of anticipate what would happen if it were to fall under the Safe Drinking Water Act. We can only look at recommendations being made by various interest groups." A bill recently introduced into both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, known as the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, seeks to repeal the exemption in the 2005 clarification of the Safe Drinking Water Act that placed fracturing fluids outside the regulatory purview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the bill's underground injection control (UIC) program.