Bill Text: NY S02415 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2415

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits publicly owned treatment works from accepting wastewater associated with the exploration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; provides exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02415-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2415

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN ACT relating to wastewater treatment

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, no  publicly
     2  owned treatment works shall accept wastewater associated with the explo-
     3  ration,  delineation,  development,  or  production of natural gas where
     4  high-volume hydraulic fracturing is utilized.
     5    § 2.  A publicly owned treatment works may appeal to the department of
     6  environmental conservation division  of  water  for  an  exemption  from
     7  section  one  of  this act if it can meet a standard of performance that
     8  shall permit no discharge of  pollutants,  or  if  not  feasible,  shall
     9  reflect  the  greatest  degree  of effluent reduction achievable through
    10  application of the best available demonstrated control technology, proc-
    11  esses, operating methods, or other alternatives.
    12    § 3. For purposes of this act, "High-volume hydraulic  fracturing"  or
    13  "(HVHF)"  means  hydraulic  fracturing  for natural gas extraction using
    14  greater than 300,000 gallons of water regardless of whether the well  is
    15  vertical, directional or horizontal.
    16    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03219-01-5