; (8) in 2011, Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey stated, We have not seen evidence of any adverse effect as a result of the use of the chemicals that are part of that fracking technology. ; (9) (A) activities relating to hydraulic fracturing (such as surface discharges, wastewater disposal, and air emissions) are already regulated at the Federal level under a variety of environmental statutes, including portions of— (i) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.); (ii) the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.); and (iii) the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); but (B) Congress has continually elected not to include the hydraulic fracturing process in the underground injection control program under the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.); (10) in 2011, the Secretary of the Interior announced the intention to promulgate new Federal regulations governing hydraulic fracturing on Federal land; (11) a February 2012 study by the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, entitled Fact-Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in Shale Gas Development , found that [n]o evidence of chemicals from hydraulic fracturing fluid has been found in aquifers as a result of fracturing operations ; and (12) on October 1, 2014, the Ground Water Protection Council and State Oil and Gas Regulatory Exchange released a report entitled State Oil and Gas Regulations Designed to Protect Water Resources that describes the cutting edge of State-based oil and gas regulations, concluding that In step with dramatic industry growth over the past five years, states have substantially improved groundwater protection laws and regulations governing oil and natural gas production. . 3. Definition of Federal land In this Act, the term Federal land means— (1) public lands (as defined in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1702 )); (2) National Forest System land; (3) land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation