Bill Text: NY A07072 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to wastewater from hydraulic fracturing and directs the commissioner of the DEC to promulgate rules and regulations requiring screening of such wastewater to not cause harm to sewage treatment works.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to environmental conservation [A07072 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07072-Introduced.html

---

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         7072
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 11, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         wastewater from hydraulic fracturing
         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. PROMULGATE SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE  NECESSARY  TO  (1)
    5  REQUIRE  THAT  ANY  WASTEWATER  FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING BE SCREENED TO
    6  DETERMINE IF IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR TREATMENT  BY  ANY  SEWAGE  TREATMENT
    7  WORKS  SO  AS  TO  NOT  CAUSE  HARM  TO THE TREATMENT PROCESSES THAT ARE
    8  DESIGNED TO REMOVE NITROGEN AND ORGANIC HUMAN OR  MAMMALIAN  WASTE;  AND
    9  (2)  PROHIBIT THE ACCEPTANCE BY ANY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS OF WASTEWATER
   10  FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONTAINING ANY CONTAMINANTS WHICH SUCH  SEWAGE
   11  TREATMENT FACILITY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO TREAT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
   12  TO   RADIOACTIVITY,  CARCINOGENS,  BASES,  ACIDS,  SOLVENTS,  SLICKENING
   13  AGENTS, METALS, HYDROCARBONS AND HIGH SALINITY  SOLUTIONS  DERIVED  FROM
   14  HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ACTIVITIES.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10540-02-1