# 116-hr-8292: FUELS Act

116-hr-8292, FUELS Act, is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-8292
- Congress: 116
- Title: FUELS Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Introduced: 2020-09-17
- Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act This bill increases thresholds for requiring a farm to have a plan to address oil spills. Currently, regulations require a farm to have an oil spill control and prevention plan that is certified by a professional engineer if the farm's aboveground oil storage capacity is above a certain threshold or if the farm has a reportable oil discharge history. A farm with lower aboveground storage capacity and no reportable history is either allowed to self-certify its plan or not required to have a plan at all, depending on the farm's storage capacity.     Under the bill, the Environmental Protection Agency must require a farm to have a professionally certified plan if the farm has an aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity of 40,000 gallons or more, whereas the current threshold is 20,000 gallons. The bill also raises the aggregate capacity thresholds at which a farm with no reportable oil discharge history may self-certify its plan or is not required to have a plan. The bill also limits when a farm's aboveground oil storage containers on separate parcels shall count toward the farm's oil storage capacity for the purposes of these thresholds.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] (R-WA), 2020-09-17T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 116-hr-8256: Recognition of Local Interests in NEPA Decision Making
- 116-hr-7579: SAVE Jobs Act
- 116-hr-7358: Mount Rushmore Protection Act
- 116-hr-7278: JUSTICE Act
- 116-hr-7061: American Critical Mineral Exploration and Innovation Act of 2020
- 116-hr-6829: EMPIL–DOC Act

## Sources
- [116-hr-8292 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8292)

## Related
- [116-hr-8256: Recognition of Local Interests in NEPA Decision Making](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8256)
- [116-hr-7579: SAVE Jobs Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7579)
- [116-hr-7358: Mount Rushmore Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7358)
- [116-hr-7278: JUSTICE Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7278)
- [116-hr-7061: American Critical Mineral Exploration and Innovation Act of 2020](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7061)
- [116-hr-6829: EMPIL–DOC Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-6829)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8292 (as of 2025-11-18).