HB 850 — An Act amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in development, providing for hydraulic fracturing fluid tracer.

PRINTER'S NO.   880

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 850
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY ISAACSON, CIRESI, FREEMAN, GUENST, KHAN, OTTEN,
        PIELLI, SANCHEZ, STEELE AND VITALI, MARCH 10, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
        PROTECTION, MARCH 10, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in development, providing for hydraulic fracturing
 3      fluid tracer.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.    Title 58 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 7   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 8   § 3222.2.   Hydraulic fracturing fluid tracer.
 9      (a)   Applicability.--This section shall apply to hydraulic
10   fracturing of unconventional wells performed on or after the
11   effective date of this subsection.
12      (b)   Required additives.--A service provider who performs any
13   part of a hydraulic fracturing treatment and a vendor who
14   provides hydraulic fracturing chemicals directly to the operator
15   for a hydraulic fracturing treatment shall include a tracer
16   substance in the base stimulation fluid used in the alteration
17   of an unconventional well.
18      (c)   Specifications.--The department shall specify the type
 1   of tracer substance that the operator is required to use in the
 2   alteration of an unconventional well. The following shall apply:
 3            (1)   The tracer substance must be traceable to a specific
 4      operator after the tracer substance is used in the alteration
 5      of an unconventional well.
 6            (2)   The department shall determine that the use of the
 7      tracer substance will not endanger public health or the
 8      environment.
 9      (d)   Regulations.--The Environmental Quality Board shall
10   promulgate regulations necessary to meet the requirements of
11   this section.
12      Section 2.    This act shall take effect immediately.




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