EPA To Submit Draft Study Plan to Its Scientific Advisory Board

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today submitted its draft study plan on hydraulic fracturing for review to the agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists.

The story provides a timeline of action.

• March 7 - 8, 2011: SAB to review the draft plan (open to public; comments encouraged)
• Immediately following: Agency to revise the study plan based on SAB's comments
• Dec 31, 2012: initial research results and study findings to be made public by end of 2012
• 2014: an additional report following further research in 2014