Bill Text: NY A06913 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-06 - ordered to third reading rules cal.50 [A06913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06913-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6913
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  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.  Subdivision  2  of  section  23-0303 of the environmental
    2  conservation law, as added by chapter  846  of  the  laws  of  1981,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    2.  The  provisions  of this article shall supersede all local laws or
    5  ordinances relating to the regulation  of  the  oil,  gas  and  solution
    6  mining industries; but shall not supersede local government jurisdiction
    7  over  local roads EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE USE OF FLOWBACK WATER ON
    8  HIGHWAYS IS PROHIBITED PURSUANT TO THE POWER GRANTED BY PARAGRAPH  L  OF
    9  SUBDIVISION  EIGHT  OF  SECTION  23-0305 OF THIS TITLE, or the rights of
   10  local governments under the real property tax law.
   11    S 2. Subdivision 8 of section 23-0305 of the  environmental  conserva-
   12  tion law is amended by adding a new paragraph l to read as follows:
   13    L.  PROHIBIT  THE USE OF FLOWBACK WATER FROM WELLS, POOLS OR FIELDS ON
   14  ANY HIGHWAY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE
   15  TRANSPORTATION  LAW,  FOR  ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USE
   16  FOR DE-ICING, DUST SUPPRESSION OR ANY OTHER USE.
   17    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   18  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10344-01-1