Bill Text: NY S06651 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits waterless fracking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06651 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06651-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6651

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting waterless fracking

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 23-0505 to read as follows:
     3  § 23-0505. Prohibition on waterless fracking.
     4    1.  For  purposes  of this section, the following terms shall have the
     5  following meanings:
     6    a. "hydraulic fracturing" shall mean a process used  to  create  frac-
     7  tures  that  extend  from a borehole into rock formations to increase or
     8  restore the  rate at which oil or gas may be produced from a well; and
     9    b. "waterless fracking" shall mean hydraulic  fracturing  without  the
    10  use of water.
    11    2.  Notwithstanding any other prohibition on hydraulic fracturing made
    12  by executive order, by any other  provision  of  law  or  by  any  other
    13  manner,  on  and  after  the  effective  date of this section, no person
    14  granted a well permit pursuant to section 23-0501 of  this  title  shall
    15  perform any method of waterless fracking.
    16    3.  No provision of this section shall be construed to nullify, limit,
    17  diminish, alter, modify or affect in any way any prohibition on  hydrau-
    18  lic fracturing made by executive order, by any other provision of law or
    19  by any other manner.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13641-01-9