FUELS Act

Bill: 118-hr-3763
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-31
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution

Energy storage, supplies, demand

Environmental regulatory procedures

Farmland

Motor fuels

Oil and gas

Pollution liability

Water quality
Latest action: action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-05-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">This bill increases thresholds for requiring a farm to have a plan to address oil spills.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Currently, regulations require a farm to have an oil spill control and prevention plan that is certified by a professional engineer if the farm's aboveground oil storage capacity is above a certain threshold or if the farm has a reportable oil discharge history. A farm with lower aboveground storage capacity and no reportable history is either allowed to self-certify its plan or not required to have a plan at all, depending on the farm's storage capacity.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Under the bill, the Environmental Protection Agency must require a farm to have a professionally certified plan if the farm has an aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity of 40,000 gallons or more, whereas the current threshold is 20,000 gallons. The bill also raises the aggregate capacity thresholds at which a farm with no reportable oil discharge history may self-certify its plan or is not required to have a plan. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The bill also limits when a farm's aboveground oil storage containers on separate parcels shall count toward the farm's oil storage capacity for the purposes of these thresholds.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3763 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 31, 2023 Mr. Crawford (for himself and Mr. Graves of Missouri ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act . 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).