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WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is on track to impose new rules on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil on public lands early next year, with required disclosure of chemicals used at the sites and detailed plans for dealing with water at the wells, an Obama administration official said Monday.
The government’s forthcoming proposal also likely would extend existing rules governing the integrity of wells on roughly 700 million acres of public lands in a bid to better protect nearby groundwater supplies, said Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes.
