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A04725 Summary:

BILL NOA04725
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02706
 
SPONSORBurdick
 
COSPNSRSchiavoni, Simone, Epstein, Otis
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §23-0305, En Con L
 
Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.
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A04725 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4725
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 5, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells,
          pools or fields on any highway

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     3    16. The department shall prohibit the use of drilling fluids and flow-
     4  back water from wells, pools or fields on any  highway,  as  defined  in
     5  subdivision  fourteen  of section two of the transportation law, for any
     6  purpose, including but not limited to use for de-icing, dust suppression
     7  or any other use. Provided, however, that  this  prohibition  shall  not
     8  apply  to the use of brine produced from solution mining wells, natural-
     9  ly-occurring brine extracted from wells drilled  for  that  purpose,  or
    10  brine  associated  with  production or storage wells that is not contam-
    11  inated by production or storage, as determined by the department.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06152-01-5
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