Protecting American Energy Production Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 751 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 751

      To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 3, 2021

 Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Norman, Mr. Weber of Texas, 
Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Balderson, 
Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Mann, Mr. 
 Gosar, Mr. Latta, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. Biggs, 
  Ms. Herrell, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Womack, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. 
Jackson, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Perry, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Baird, 
   Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Keller, Mr. Carl, Mr. Emmer, Mr. Valadao, Mrs. 
  Boebert, and Mrs. McClain) introduced the following bill; 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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                                 A BILL


 
      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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