Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil 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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9635
IN SENATE
March 31, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from
gas or oil 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, brine,
4 and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any high-
5 way, as defined in subdivision fourteen of section two of the transpor-
6 tation law, for any purpose, including but not limited to use for de-ic-
7 ing, dust suppression or any other use.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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