Bill Text: NY S07167 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7167 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Expands acreage relating to the natural gas development habitat fragmentation protection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07167 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07167-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7167
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 1, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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  the
         natural gas development habitat fragmentation protection
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
    2  the  "natural  gas  development  habitat fragmentation protection act of
    3  2012".
    4    S 2. Clause (vi) of subparagraph (1) of paragraph b of  subdivision  1
    5  of  section 23-0501 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by
    6  chapter 376 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    7    (vi) For shale gas pools at any depth, for a horizontal  well  outside
    8  any  existing  spacing  unit  for  the same formation and with a written
    9  commitment from the well operator to  drill  infill  wells  pursuant  to
   10  subdivision  4  of  section  23-0503  of this title, with all horizontal
   11  infill wells in the unit to be drilled from a  common  well  pad  within
   12  three  years  of the date the first well in the unit commences drilling,
   13  notwithstanding the ten percent tolerance  specified  in  this  subpara-
   14  graph,  up  to [640] 1,280 acres with the initial horizontal wellbore or
   15  wellbores within the target  formation  approximately  centered  in  the
   16  spacing  unit and no wellbore in the target formation less than 330 feet
   17  from any unit boundary;
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15161-01-2