1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) hydraulic fracturing is a commercially viable practice that has been used in the United States for more than 60 years in more than 1,000,000 wells; (2) the Ground Water Protection Council, a national association of State water regulators that is considered to be a leading groundwater protection organization in the United States, released a report entitled State Oil and Natural Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources and dated May 2009 finding that the current State regulation of oil and gas activities is environmentally proactive and preventive ; (3) that report also concluded that [a]ll oil and gas producing States have regulations which are designed to provide protection for water resources ; (4) a 2004 study by the Environmental Protection Agency, entitled Evaluation of Impacts to Underground Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs , found no evidence of drinking water wells contaminated by fracture fluid from the fracked formation; (5) a 2009 report by the Ground Water Protection Council, entitled State Oil and Natural Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources , found a lack of evidence that hydraulic fracturing conducted in both deep and shallow formations presents a risk of endangerment to ground water; (6) a January 2009 resolution by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission stated The states, who regulate production, have comprehensive laws and regulations to ensure operations are safe and to protect drinking water. States have found no verified cases of groundwater contamination associated with hydraulic fracturing. ; (7) on May 24, 2011, before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives, Lisa Jackson, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, testified that she was not aware of any proven case where the fracking process itself has affected water