ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, MAYER, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS
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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2706
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER,
MAY, MAYER, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
mental 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
