STATE OF NEW YORK
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9408
IN ASSEMBLY
February 29, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the lease of state forests, wildlife management areas and
unique areas for gas production
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 1 of section 23-1101 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 722 of the laws of
3 1977, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. The exploration, development and production of gas in state-owned
5 lands, except state park lands, state forests, wildlife management
6 areas, unique areas, and the lands under the waters of Lake Ontario or
7 along its shoreline; and
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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