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Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016

Floor Speech

Date: July 7, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Oil and Gas

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Mrs. LUMMIS. Mr. Chairman, my State of Wyoming is the largest onshore producer of oil and gas from Federal land. The reason our Wyoming court stayed the Federal BLM's rules is because Wyoming has been regulating fracking through its oil and gas commission from the beginning. There has never been one documented case of drinking water being contaminated. Furthermore, the way that BLM land lays with private land and State land is they are all interspersed; yet, underground, because of horizontal drilling, the drilling transcends from State land to private land to Federal land, and back and forth. Those wells are unitized so the production can be allocated among the various owners of private, State, and Federal land. You can't have two layers of surfaces State ownership regulation when the drilling is occurring going back and forth among State, private, and Federal lands.

Wyoming has handled its fracking regulations responsibly. It was the first in the Nation to do so. I strongly urge you leave it in the hands of States who do it best.

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