Bill Text: NY A07105 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-07 - advanced to third reading cal.348 [A07105 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07105-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7105--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the  Commit-
          tee  on Environmental 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
          prohibiting the use of drilling fluids, brine, and 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 drilling  fluids,  brine,
     4  and  flowback  water  from  wells,  pools  or  fields on any highway, as
     5  defined in subdivision fourteen of section  two  of  the  transportation
     6  law,  for  any  purpose,  including but not limited to use for de-icing,
     7  dust suppression or any other use.
     8    § 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.
                                                                   LBD05381-04-4