Bill Text: NY A00101 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater from oil or natural gas extraction activities at wastewater treatment facilities and solid waste management facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-27 - advanced to third reading cal.414 [A00101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00101-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           101
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. BUCHWALD, ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO, COLTON, MOSLEY,
          GUNTHER, BICHOTTE, LIFTON,  GOTTFRIED,  ROZIC,  RYAN,  BARRETT,  OTIS,
          STECK,  ZEBROWSKI,  BLAKE,  JAFFEE,  BARRON,  ARROYO,  WALKER,  QUART,
          CAHILL, GALEF, ABINANTI, L. ROSENTHAL, D'URSO, WEPRIN  --  Multi-Spon-
          sored  by  --  M.  of A.   COOK, GLICK, HEVESI, PEOPLES-STOKES, SIMON,
          THIELE -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          banning the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing  wastewater
          from  oil or natural gas extraction at wastewater treatment facilities
          and solid waste management facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  17-1905 of the environmental
     2  conservation law is amended by adding a  new  paragraph  f  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    f. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the introduction
     5  of  high  volume  hydraulic  fracturing  waste  from  oil or natural gas
     6  extraction including, but not limited to, flowback water and  production
     7  water or brine into any wastewater treatment facility within the state.
     8    §  2. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is amended
     9  by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    10    7. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the disposal  of
    11  high   volume  hydraulic  fracturing  waste  from  oil  or  natural  gas
    12  extraction from being deposited in a solid waste management facility.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00410-01-9
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