Bill Text: NY S08357 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits well permits from being issued to an applicant that uses carbon dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8866 [S08357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8357

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2024
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        Introduced by Sens. WEBB, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
          vation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting well permits from being issued to an applicant  that  uses
          carbon dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil resources

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section  23-0501  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law,  as  added  by section 1 of part WW of
     3  chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) No permits shall be issued  authorizing  an  applicant  to  drill,
     5  deepen, plug back, or convert wells that use high-volume hydraulic frac-
     6  turing  or  carbon  dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil
     7  resources. For purposes of this section, high-volume hydraulic  fractur-
     8  ing  shall  be  defined as the stimulation of a well using three hundred
     9  thousand or more gallons of water as the base fluid for hydraulic  frac-
    10  turing  for  all  stages in a well completion, regardless of whether the
    11  well is vertical or directional, including horizontal.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13662-04-4