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UIC Permitting Guidance for Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Activities Using Diesel Fuels – Draft

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Aug 6, 2012· Comment submitted by Elisabeth MacNamara, President, League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS)· EPA-HQ-OW-2011-1013-1806

From:League of Women Voters of the United States Re:Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW- 2011-1013 Permitting Guidance for Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Activities Using Diesel Fuel The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) is encouraged that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued draft guidance for the use of diesel in hydraulic fracturing and is accepting public comment regarding these changes. We believe it is imperative that existing requirements be further clarified in order to provide regulatory certainty, improve compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirements and strengthen environmental protections. As you may know, the League advocated for the passage of this law based on our national, long-standing position on natural resources. LWVUS believes that natural resources should be managed as interrelated parts of life-supporting ecosystems. Resources should be conserved and protected to assure their future availability. Pollution of these resources should be controlled in order to preserve the physical, chemical and biological integrity of ecosystems and to protect public health. With regard to our national position specifically on water issues, the League supports •water resource programs and policies that reflect the interrelationships of water quality, water quantity, ground-water and surface water and that address the potential depletion or pollution of water supplies; •measures to reduce water pollution from direct point-source discharges and from indirect non-point sources; •policies to achieve water quality essential for maintaining species populations and diversity, including measures to protect lakes, estuaries, wetlands and in-stream flows; •stringent controls to protect the quality of current and potential drinking-water supplies, including protection of watersheds for surface supplies and of recharge areas

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This document describes Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program guidance for permitting the underground injection of oil-and gas-related hydraulic fracturing (HF) using diesel fuels where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the permitting authority. EPA’s goal is to improve compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirements and strengthen environmental protections consistent with existing law.

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