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421ssion.</li><li>September 2011 â FracFocus begins using GIS interfaces for disclosure search.</li><li>Jan. 1, 2012 â FracFocus goes international with FracFocus Canada deployed in British Columbia and Alberta.</li><li>Summer 2012 â North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania begin requiring disclosure to FracFocus, bringing the total to seven states.</li><li>Fall 2012 - US DOE begins providing funding for FracFocus expansion and support, Initial funding used specifically for the upgrade of FracFocus to version 2.0.</li><li>June 2013 â FracFocus 2.0 is released, allowing users to more efficiently search for well site chemical information. A new and improved XML platform gives users the option to search and pull reports by date ranges, chemical names or CAS numbers. Additional improvements in data validation and error trapping are made to the system.</li><li>September 2013 â Eight more states now require chemical disclosure through FracFocus: South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.</li><li>April 2015 â Another eight states now require chemical disclosures to FracFocus: California, Nevada, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Michigan and Alaska.</li><li>July 2015 â Due to public demand, FracFocus begins releasing disclosure data to the public in machine-readable (SQL) format, allowing FracFocus users and researchers to more easily search and aggregate data.</li><li>October 2015 â The number of disclosures for hydraulic fracturing operations surpasses 100,000 â in all, FracFocus sees 106,132 disclosures from operations nationwide with 974 reporting companies.</li><li>June 2016 â FracFocus 3.0 goes live, providing stronger validation processes to improve data integrity, which in turn makes data more valuable for researchers and the public; a new format for reporting company data entry, which should decrease the use of trade secrets in disclosures, thereby providing more public transparency; and newly designed forms to improve the company and regulatory agency user experiences when checking and completing disclosures. Additional data downloaded also provided for public transparency.</li><li>June 2020 - FracFocus launches new public website (this site)</li><li>July 2020 - Milestone of 175,000 disclosures submitted reached</li><li>May 2021 - Updated Website Hardware and Security Frameworks updates on FracFocus servers</li><li>August 2021 - FracFocus is used as the only national regulatory reporting system for 27 Oil and Gas States. It contains over 184,000 disclosures with over 5 million chemicals records coming from more than 1,600 registered companies.</li><li>December 2021 - FracFocus design for the next version is ongoing with expected development of FracFocus 4.0 in 2022.</li><li>2023 - FracFocus 4.0 slated for release, enabling reporting of water used in hydraulic fracturing jobs by source and quality.</li></ul><p></p><p><br></p><p>âFracFocus is a victory for transparency and good governance, and an example of what is possible when the industry works with state regulators and environmental groups to solve urgent challenges in managing the local impacts of hydraulic fracturing. FracFocus remains one of the best national repositories of oil and gas data, and paves the way for a new era of open data in this field.â</p><p><strong>â Adam Peltz</strong>, Environmental Defense Fund</p><p><br></p><p></p><hr>FURTHER READING<p></p><p><a class="linkto" href=/about-us>About Us</a> 422<style> 423 .linkto{ 424 color: #0093c8; 425 text-decoration: none; 426 } 427</style><br></p> 428</span> 429 430 431 432<style> 433 ol, ul { 434 padding-left: 0 !important; 435 } 436 .text_body{ 437 font-family: Roboto,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; 438 font-size: 0.8em; 439 line-height: 1.5em; 440 color: #3b4859; 441 } 442 .text_body ul{ 443 list-style-position: outside; 444 margin-left: 10px; 445 list-style-type: disc; 446 } 447 .text_body li{ 448 margin-left: 40px; 449 } 450 .page-heading{ 451 width: 100% !important; 452 } 453 h4{ 454 font-family: Roboto,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; 455 font-size: 26px; 456 color: #3b4859; 457 line-height: 38px; 458 font-weight: 400; 459 } 460 #header_img{height:200px;} 461 #heading{position: relative;top:-30px;} 462 .umbrella{ 463 font-size: 16px; 464 text-transform: uppercase; 465 letter-spacing: 1px; 466 font-weight: 700; 467 line-height: 24px; 468 padding-top: 4em; 469 text-align: center; 470 color: #fff; 471 opacity: 1;
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