Bill Text: NY A04720 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - advanced to third reading cal.986 [A04720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04720-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4720--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. O'DONNELL, ABINANTI, ENGLEBRIGHT, OTIS, LIFTON,
          GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  BUCHWALD  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted
          to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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, 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.
                                                                   LBD09387-02-8