Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act

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Introduced

8 December 2016

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8 December 2016 · Introduced

Status

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summary

Preventing Preventable Earthquakes Act This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring regulations for state underground injection programs to include provisions designed to prevent the occurrence of seismicity induced by underground injection activities. The bill redefines "underground injection" to include the subsurface emplacement of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations. Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation. The Environmental Protection Agency must review approved state underground injection programs at least once every five years.

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8 December 2016
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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8 December 2016
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6508
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/6508
us · 114-hr-6508 · source updated 12 August 2025