Title: FUELS Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act
This bill amends the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 to require the Environmental Protection Agency, in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule (concerning oil pollution prevention) with respect to any farm, to:
The rule shall apply to aboveground storage containers at farms on a separate parcel that have an individual capacity of not more than 1,320 gallons (currently, 1,000 gallons) and an aggregate capacity of not more than 3,000 gallons (currently, 2,500 gallons).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1737 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1737

 To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 with 
   respect to the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and 
     Countermeasure rule to certain farms, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2017

  Mr. Crawford (for himself, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Jones, Mr. Cramer, Mr. 
 Long, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Mitchell, 
 Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Hurd, Mr. Womack, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Gibbs, 
Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Harper, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Johnson 
of Ohio, Mr. Hudson, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Bost, and Ms. Jenkins 
  of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 with 
   respect to the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and 
     Countermeasure rule to certain farms, 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 ``Farmers Undertake Environmental Land 
Stewardship Act'' or the ``FUELS Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND COUNTERMEASURE 
              RULE.

    Section 1049 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 
2014 (33 U.S.C. 1361 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``20,000'' and 
                inserting ``42,000'';
                    (B) by amending paragraph (2)(A) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(A) an aggregate aboveground storage capacity 
                greater than 10,000 gallons but less than 42,000 
                gallons; and'';
                    (C) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 
                        follows:
                    ``(A) with an aggregate aboveground storage 
                capacity of less than or equal to 10,000 gallons; 
                and''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting a period; and
                    (D) by striking paragraph (4);
            (2) in subsection (c)(2)(A)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``1,000'' and 
                inserting ``1,320''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``2,500'' and 
                inserting ``3,000''; and
            (3) by striking subsection (d).
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