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Regulations Of Hydraulic Fracturing Under The Safe Drinking Water Act, Keith B. Hall
Regulations Of Hydraulic Fracturing Under The Safe Drinking Water Act, Keith B. Hall
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
For more than 20 years after the 1974 enactment of the Safe Drinking Water Act ("SD WA ), the US. Environmental Protection Agency interpreted the SDWA as not applying to hydraulic fracturing. The United States Eleventh Circuit ruled in 1997 that the SDWTA applied to fracturing, but the EPA chose not to consent to that interpretation outside the Eleventh Circuit. Further the EPA continued to take the position that its existing SDWTA regulations did not apply to hydraulic fracturing, and it never promulgated new regulations to cover fracturing. In 2005, the Congress passed legislation that generally is read as applying …