STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3569 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, HOYLMAN -- 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 lease of state forests, wildlife management areas and unique areas for gas production The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 23-1101 of the 2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 722 of the laws of 3 1977, is amended to read as follows: 4 a. The exploration, development and production of gas in state-owned 5 lands, except state park lands, state forests, wildlife management 6 areas, unique areas, and the lands under the waters of Lake Ontario or 7 along its shoreline; and 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03473-01-9