Bill Text: NY S01538 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1538

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 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-08 - referred to environmental conservation [S01538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01538-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1538--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER,
          MAY, MAYER, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
          mental Conservation -- 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 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 and flow-
     4  back  water  from  wells,  pools or fields on any highway, as defined in
     5  subdivision fourteen of section two of the transportation law,  for  any
     6  purpose, including but not limited to use for de-icing, dust suppression
     7  or  any  other  use.  Provided, however, that this prohibition shall not
     8  apply to the use of brine produced from solution mining wells,  natural-
     9  ly-occurring  brine  extracted  from  wells drilled for that purpose, or
    10  brine associated with production or storage wells that  is  not  contam-
    11  inated by production or storage, as determined by the department.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05381-02-3