This bill prohibits federal agencies from proposing, implementing, or finalizing a rule or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing (i.e., fracking) in the United States. Hydraulic fracturing means a process that (1) stimulates or increases the production and recovery of oil or natural gas from a well by pumping a fluid and a propping agent (e.g., sand) at high pressure into a well to create fractures in the reservoir that the propping agent holds open, and (2) increases the surface of the formation available for oil and natural gas to flow into the well.
To prohibit a Federal agency from promulgating any rule or guidance 
  that bans hydraulic fracturing in the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON PROMULGATING ANY RULE OR GUIDANCE THAT BANS 
              HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) Definition of Hydraulic Fracturing.--In this section, the term 
``hydraulic fracturing'' means a process that--
            (1) stimulates or increases the production and ultimate 
        recovery of oil or natural gas from a well by pumping a fluid 
        and a proppant (such as sand or similar material) at high 
        pressure into a well to create fractures in the reservoir that 
        the proppant holds open; and
            (2) increases the surface of the formation available for 
        oil and natural gas to flow into the wellbore.
    (b) Prohibition.--No Federal agency may propose, implement, or 
finalize a rule or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing in the 
United States.
                                                       Calendar No. 239

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3459

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A bill to prohibit a Federal agency from promulgating any rule or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing in the United States, and for other purposes.
A bill to prohibit a Federal agency from promulgating any rule or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing in the United States, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - Senate
Official Title as Introduced
A bill to prohibit a Federal agency from promulgating any rule or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing in the United States, and for other purposes.
Sen. Cramer, Kevin