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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1538

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER,
          MAY, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, 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 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.
                                                                   LBD05381-01-3