Bill Text: NY A00536 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of wastewater from high-volume hydraulic fracturing for road and land spreading, for dust control or de-icing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A00536 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00536-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           536

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, THIELE, COLTON, CARROLL,
          STECK -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting the use of wastewater for road and land spreading

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  23-0101 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding three new subdivisions 4-a, 7-a and 16-a  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4-a. "Flowback fluid" means liquids produced during initial completion
     5  and  cleanup  of  the  well or cleanup of a well following refracture or
     6  work over of a well.
     7    7-a. "High-volume hydraulic  fracturing"  or  "HVHF"  means  hydraulic
     8  fracturing  for  natural gas extraction using greater than three hundred
     9  thousand gallons of water regardless of whether the  well  is  vertical,
    10  directional or horizontal.
    11    16-a. "Production brine" or "produced water" means liquids co-produced
    12  during oil and gas production.
    13    §  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
    14  section 23-0315 to read as follows:
    15  § 23-0315. Wastewater for road and land spreading; prohibited.
    16    Wastewater associated with the production of natural gas  using  high-
    17  volume  hydraulic fracturing, including flowback fluid, production brine
    18  or produced water, shall not be used for the purpose of  road  spreading
    19  for dust control or de-icing or land spreading.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00767-01-3