House Natural Resources Committee
Markup of Fracking, Drought Preparedness, Offshore Drilling Legislation
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a mark-up on the following bills:
- H.R. 1121 (Rep. Duncan), “Protecting American Energy Production Act”, to prohibit the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands;
- H.R. 4385 (Rep. Neguse), “Drought Preparedness Act”, to extend authorization of Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act to 2028;
- H.R. 6008 (Rep. Graves of Louisiana), To prohibit the limitation of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales to protect the endangered Rice’s whale until the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Marine Fisheries Service issues a new biological opinion relating to the Rice’s whale; and
- H.J. Res. 96 (Rep. Westerman), “Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2023.”