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Creates a new federal Abandoned Wells Research, Development, and Demonstration Program to study and test ways to find, measure, plug, repurpose, and limit environmental harms from abandoned oil and gas wells. The Secretary must set up the program within 120 days of enactment and coordinate research with universities, national laboratories, and the private sector; funding is authorized for fiscal years 2026–2030.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced March 3, 2025 by Ben Ray Luján · Last progress 1 year ago