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Senate adopts resolution urging Congress to preserve hydraulic-fracturing exemption

Utah State Senate · February 20, 2009
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Summary

The Utah Senate unanimously approved a joint resolution urging Congress to maintain the hydraulic-fracturing exemption in federal drinking-water law, with sponsor Sen. Hinkins saying the practice has operated for decades without documented drinking-water contamination.

The Utah Senate on the floor unanimously approved Senate Joint Resolution 17, a legislative statement urging Congress to preserve an exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Sponsor Senator Hinkins introduced the resolution and framed it as support for keeping the federal exemption in place. "Hydraulic fracturing has been…

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