In a July 16, 2013 hearing before the US House of
Representatives Natural Resources Committee, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
explained the BLM’s proposed rule on hydraulic fracturing on public and tribe
lands as a “common sense” update to old regulations. Sec. Jewell said the rule
would help increase efficiency in the permitting process, while ensuring the public
has full confidence regulations were in place to protect their safety and the
environment.
The public comment period on the BLM’s revised proposed rule
is open until August 23, 2013.
For more information on the House Committee hearing, please
visit the House
Natural Resource Committee site; and for more information on the BLM revision
proposed rule, visit the BLM
site.
Written by: Garrett Lent, Research Assistant
Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center
July 2013.
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