Bill Text: NY S01858 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01858 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01858-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1858--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, KRUEGER, PARKER, RIVERA,
          SERRANO  --  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting the use of drilling fluids, brine, and flowback water from
          wells, pools or fields on any highway

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     3    15. The department shall prohibit the use of drilling  fluids,  brine,
     4  and  flowback  water  from  wells,  pools  or  fields on any highway, as
     5  defined in subdivision fourteen of section  two  of  the  transportation
     6  law,  for  any  purpose,  including but not limited to use for de-icing,
     7  dust suppression or any other use.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04361-02-9