Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “TREAT Water Act” or the “Transitioning Research to Ensure Appropriate Treatment of Water Act”.
TREAT Water Act
A BILL
To amend the Energy Act of 2020 to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a demonstration program for on-site treatment of produced water, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Produced water demonstration program
Section 4008 of the Energy Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 10310) is amended by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (f) and inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Produced water demonstration program
“(1) Establishment—In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall establish a demonstration program for on-site treatment of produced water.
“(2) Prioritization—In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall prioritize—
“(A) first-of-a-kind or new approaches to treating produced water at natural gas or oil development sites; and
“(B) technologies that can be used at natural gas or oil development sites to reduce other environmental harm.
“(3) Consultation—In establishing the demonstration program under this subsection, the Secretary shall consult with the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agencies, including the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
“(e) Produced water defined—In this section, the term produced water means water produced as a byproduct of drilling and fracturing oil or natural gas wells.”