Bill Sponsor
BILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 9861
118th Congress(2023-2024)
TREAT Water Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Sep 27, 2024
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Sep 27, 2024
No Linkage Found
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Sep 27, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024
No Linkage Found
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 9861 (Introduced-in-House)


118th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 9861


To amend the Energy Act of 2020 to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a demonstration program for on-site treatment of produced water, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 27, 2024

Ms. Caraveo (for herself and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

A BILL

To amend the Energy Act of 2020 to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a demonstration program for on-site treatment of produced water, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “TREAT Water Act” or the “Transitioning Research to Ensure Appropriate Treatment of Water Act”.

SEC. 2. Produced water demonstration program.

Section 4008 of the Energy Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 10310) is amended by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (f) and inserting after subsection (c) the following:

“(d) Produced water demonstration program.—

“(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall establish a demonstration program for on-site treatment of produced water.

“(2) PRIORITIZATION.—In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall prioritize—

“(A) first-of-a-kind or new approaches to treating produced water at natural gas or oil development sites; and

“(B) technologies that can be used at natural gas or oil development sites to reduce other environmental harm.

“(3) CONSULTATION.—In establishing the demonstration program under this subsection, the Secretary shall consult with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, including the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.

“(e) Produced water defined.—In this section, the term ‘produced water’ means water produced as a byproduct of drilling and fracturing oil or natural gas wells.”.