Protecting American Energy Production Act
This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands.
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting American Energy 
Production Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTING AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that States 
should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for 
oil and natural gas production on State and private lands.
    (b) Prohibition on Declaration of a Moratorium on Hydraulic 
Fracturing.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President 
may not declare a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless 
such moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.
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Protecting American Energy Production Act
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.
Protecting American Energy Production Act
Rep. Duncan, Jeff