Bill Text: NY A04905 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4905 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the use of flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-19 - advanced to third reading cal.657 [A04905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04905-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4905
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, ABINANTI, ENGLEBRIGHT, OTIS, LIFTON --
         Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BUCHWALD -- 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 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  FLOWBACK  WATER  FROM
    4  WELLS,  POOLS  OR FIELDS ON ANY HIGHWAY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR-
    5  TEEN OF SECTION TWO OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW, FOR ANY PURPOSE,  INCLUD-
    6  ING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-ICING, DUST SUPPRESSION OR ANY OTHER
    7  USE.
    8    S 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.
                                                                  LBD07741-01-5