Bill Text: NY S00355 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine 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 11-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2021-12-22 - VETOED MEMO.64 [S00355 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00355-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 355 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, KRUEGER, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation 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. LBD01398-02-1
