Bill Text: NY A00302 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 37-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-18 - ordered to third reading rules cal.270 [A00302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00302-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         302--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BUCHWALD, ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO, COLTON, MOSLEY,
          GUNTHER, BICHOTTE, LIFTON, GOTTFRIED, ROZIC,  RYAN,  TITONE,  BARRETT,
          OTIS,  STECK, ZEBROWSKI, BLAKE, JAFFEE, BARRON, ARROYO, WALKER, QUART,
          CAHILL, GALEF, ABINANTI, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  COOK,  GLICK, HEVESI, MAGEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, SIMON, THIELE -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Envi-
          ronmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        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.
                                                                   LBD01587-04-8