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H.R. 1460: FRESHER Act of 2015

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H.R. 1460: FRESHER Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-03-19 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-03-19 · 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 2015

Plain summary

Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act of 2015 or the FRESHER Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to require a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for discharges of stormwater runoff from: (1) mining operations; (2) oil and gas operations; or (3) transmission facilities 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 the operations. The Department of the Interior must study stormwater runoff associated with oil or gas operations, including an analysis of: (1) measurable contamination, (2) groundwater resources, and (3) the susceptibility of aquifers to contamination from stormwater runoff associated with the operations.

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Official text

FRESHER Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · 89 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Peter Welch (D-VT), Ted Lieu (D-CA) and 29 more.

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Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr1460 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114