Prohibits the sale, purchase or use of any liquid waste product from hydraulic fracturing operations and requires the department of environmental conservation to establish rules and regulations concerning the proper disposal of waste products generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7012
IN SENATE
April 20, 2012
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
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 sale or use of any liquid waste product from hydraulic
fracturing operations and requiring the department of environmental
conservation to establish rules and regulations concerning the proper
disposal of waste products generated during the process of hydraulic
fracturing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 23-1712 to read as follows:
3 § 23-1712. Prohibition on the sale or use of any liquid waste product
4 from hydraulic fracturing operations.
5 1. No person shall sell, purchase or utilize any liquid waste product
6 from hydraulic fracturing operations, including, but not limited to
7 fracking waste brine.
8 2. The department shall establish rules and regulations concerning the
9 proper disposal of any and all waste products generated during the proc-
10 ess of hydraulic fracturing.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
12 the department of environmental conservation shall establish rules and
13 regulations concerning the proper disposal of any and all waste products
14 generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing within ninety days
15 of the effective date of this act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15409-01-2
