The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Underground Injection Control (UIC) program is intended to manage the disposition of wastes into geologic repositories. Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation technology that has been used for more than 50 years over a million times. It has been regulated for decades by states and never posed an environmental risk. It is essential to the development of American natural gas and oil. There are no environmental benefits to additional federal regulation.
Independent Petroleum Association of America, regarding Safe Water Drinking Act pertinence to hydraulic fracturing. From the Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on Oil and Gas Exemptions in Federal Environmental Protections .
