STATE OF NEW YORK
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7167
IN SENATE
May 1, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. GRISANTI -- 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 the
natural gas development habitat fragmentation protection
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "natural gas development habitat fragmentation protection act of
3 2012".
4 § 2. Clause (vi) of subparagraph (1) of paragraph b of subdivision 1
5 of section 23-0501 of the environmental conservation law, as amended by
6 chapter 376 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
7 (vi) For shale gas pools at any depth, for a horizontal well outside
8 any existing spacing unit for the same formation and with a written
9 commitment from the well operator to drill infill wells pursuant to
10 subdivision 4 of section 23-0503 of this title, with all horizontal
11 infill wells in the unit to be drilled from a common well pad within
12 three years of the date the first well in the unit commences drilling,
13 notwithstanding the ten percent tolerance specified in this subpara-
14 graph, up to [640] 1,280 acres with the initial horizontal wellbore or
15 wellbores within the target formation approximately centered in the
16 spacing unit and no wellbore in the target formation less than 330 feet
17 from any unit boundary;
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15161-01-2
