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A05424 Summary:

A05424 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5424--B
                                                                Cal. No. 254
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 26, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SWEENEY, SILVER, FARRELL, LIFTON, GOTTFRIED,
          WEISENBERG, COLTON, BRENNAN,  GLICK,  CYMBROWITZ,  O'DONNELL,  JAFFEE,
          KAVANAGH,  ZEBROWSKI,  ABINANTI,  OTIS, ENGLEBRIGHT, DINOWITZ, MARKEY,
          PAULIN, MILLMAN, JACOBS, COOK, MILLER,  ROBINSON,  GALEF,  BRAUNSTEIN,

          SCARBOROUGH,  CLARK,  PERRY,  ROBERTS, HOOPER, KELLNER, CAHILL, ROSEN-
          THAL,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  ROZIC,  BRINDISI,  ORTIZ,  SKARTADOS,   STECK,
          SEPULVEDA,  WEPRIN, FAHY, GUNTHER, RUSSELL, SKOUFIS -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of  A.  AUBRY,  BUCHWALD,  CRESPO,  HEVESI,  LAVINE,  LENTOL,
          MAGNARELLI,  NOLAN, RIVERA, RYAN, SCHIMEL, SIMANOWITZ, THIELE, TITONE,
          WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental
          Conservation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee -- advanced  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place on the
          order of third reading
 
        AN ACT suspending the issuance of permits for the drilling of wells  for
          natural  gas extraction in certain areas; and providing for the repeal
          of such provision upon expiration thereof
 

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  No  horizontal natural gas or oil drilling or high-volume
     2  hydraulic fracturing shall be conducted in the state, and the department
     3  of environmental conservation shall issue no permits for the drilling of
     4  a well for extraction of oil or natural gas that would involve  the  use
     5  of horizontal drilling or high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     7  deemed repealed 36 months after such effective date.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09142-06-4