STATE OF NEW YORK
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8866
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting well permits from being issued to an applicant that uses
carbon dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil resources
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 3 of section 23-0501 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by section 1 of part WW of
3 chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (a) No permits shall be issued authorizing an applicant to drill,
5 deepen, plug back, or convert wells that use high-volume hydraulic frac-
6 turing or carbon dioxide to complete or recomplete natural gas or oil
7 resources. For purposes of this section, high-volume hydraulic fractur-
8 ing shall be defined as the stimulation of a well using three hundred
9 thousand or more gallons of water as the base fluid for hydraulic frac-
10 turing for all stages in a well completion, regardless of whether the
11 well is vertical or directional, including horizontal.
12 § 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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