Affirming that States should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and private lands and that the President should not declare a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands (including the Outer Continental Shelf), State lands, private lands, or lands held in trust for an Indian Tribe unless such moratorium is authorized by an Act of Congress.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 659 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 659

  Affirming that States should maintain primacy for the regulation of 
 hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and 
private lands and that the President should not declare a moratorium on 
 the use of hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands (including the Outer 
Continental Shelf), State lands, private lands, or lands held in trust 
 for an Indian Tribe unless such moratorium is authorized by an Act of 
                               Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 29, 2019

   Mr. Bishop of Utah submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Affirming that States should maintain primacy for the regulation of 
 hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and 
private lands and that the President should not declare a moratorium on 
 the use of hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands (including the Outer 
Continental Shelf), State lands, private lands, or lands held in trust 
 for an Indian Tribe unless such moratorium is authorized by an Act of 
                               Congress.

    Resolved, That States should maintain primacy for the regulation of 
hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on State and 
private lands and that the President should not declare a moratorium on 
the use of hydraulic fracturing on Federal lands (including the Outer 
Continental Shelf), State lands, private lands, or lands held in trust 
for an Indian Tribe unless such moratorium is authorized by an Act of 
Congress.
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