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H.R. 1175: FRESHER Act of 2013

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H.R. 1175: FRESHER Act of 2013

113th Congress · introduced 2013-03-14 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-03-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

FRESHER Act of 2013

Plain summary

Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2013 or the FRESHER Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to repeal provisions prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring or directing a state to require a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharges of stormwater runoff from mining, oil, and gas operations or transmission facilities composed entirely of flows from conveyances used for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff that are not contaminated by contact with any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished product, byproduct, or waste products located on the site of such operations. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report on stormwater impacts with respect to any area that may be contaminated by stormwater runoff associated with oil or gas operations, including an analysis of: (1) measurable contamination in such area, (2) ground water resources in such area, and (3) the susceptibility of aquifers in such area to contamination from stormwater runoff associated with such operations.

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Official text

FRESHER Act of 2013

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · 71 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Jared Huffman (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Judy Chu (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Diana DeGette (D-CO), James P. McGovern (D-MA) and 11 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr1175 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113