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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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113TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113-252
EPA HYDRAULIC FRACTURING STUDY IMPROVEMENT ACT
OCTOBER 23, 2013.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of Texas, from the Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2850]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 2850) to require certain procedures in the
conduct by the Environmental Protection Agency of its study of the
potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water re-
sources, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. A m endm ent ............................................................................................... 2
II. Purpose and Sum m ary ............................................................................. 2
III. Background and Need for the Legislation .............................................. 2
IV . H earing Sum m ary ...................................................................................... 5
V. Com m ittee Consideration ......................................................................... 6
V I. Com m ittee V otes ....................................................................................... 6
VII. Summary of Major Provisions of the Bill ................................................. 8
VIII. Com m ittee View s ........................................................................................ 8
IX. Com mittee Oversight Findings ................................................................. 8
X. Statement on General Performance Goals and Objectives ...................... 9
XI. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 9
XII. Advisory on Earm arks ................................................................................ 9
XIII. Com m ittee Cost Estim ate .......................................................................... 9
XIV. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................ 9
XV. Federal M andates Statem ent .................................................................... 10
XVI. Compliance with House Resolution 5 ........................................................ 10
XVII. Federal Advisory Committee Statement ................................................... 11
XVIII. Applicability to Legislative Branch ........................................................... 11
XIX. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ......................................... 11
XX. Proceedings of the Full Committee Markup ............................................. 12
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