AK SJR14

Urges Congress not to remove the exemption for hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act provisions.

Asserts that the 2005 Energy Policy Act explicitly exempted hydraulic fracturing from Safe Drinking Water Act regulation and that the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission found no known cases of groundwater contamination from the practice.

Notes that approximately 35,000 wells are hydraulically fractured annually in the United States, with close to 1,000,000 wells fractured since the technique's inception and no known harm to groundwater.

States that regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act would impose significant administrative costs and increase drilling expenses with no environmental benefits, and would raise energy costs to consumers.

Directs copies of the resolution to be sent to the President, Vice President, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, and U.S. Representative Don Young.