Bill Text: NY A02478 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale, purchase or use of any liquid waste product from hydraulic fracturing operations and requires the department of environmental conservation to establish rules and regulations concerning the proper disposal of waste products generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A02478 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02478-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2478
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
         prohibiting the sale or use of any liquid waste product from hydraulic
         fracturing operations and requiring the  department  of  environmental
         conservation  to establish rules and regulations concerning the proper
         disposal of waste products generated during the process  of  hydraulic
         fracturing
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
    2  new section 23-1712 to read as follows:
    3  S 23-1712. PROHIBITION ON THE SALE OR USE OF ANY LIQUID WASTE    PRODUCT
    4               FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OPERATIONS.
    5    1. NO PERSON SHALL SELL, PURCHASE OR UTILIZE ANY LIQUID WASTE  PRODUCT
    6  FROM  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING  OPERATIONS,  INCLUDING,  BUT NOT LIMITED TO
    7  FRACKING WASTE BRINE.
    8    2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE
    9  PROPER DISPOSAL OF ANY AND ALL WASTE PRODUCTS GENERATED DURING THE PROC-
   10  ESS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
   12  the  department  of environmental conservation shall establish rules and
   13  regulations concerning the proper disposal of any and all waste products
   14  generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing within ninety  days
   15  of the effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05455-01-5