Prohibits publicly owned treatment works from accepting wastewater associated with the exploration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; provides exceptions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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486
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT relating to wastewater treatment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, no publicly
2 owned treatment works shall accept wastewater associated with the explo-
3 ration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas where
4 high-volume hydraulic fracturing is utilized.
5 § 2. A publicly owned treatment works may appeal to the department of
6 environmental conservation division of water for an exemption from
7 section one of this act if it can meet a standard of performance that
8 shall permit no discharge of pollutants, or if not feasible, shall
9 reflect the greatest degree of effluent reduction achievable through
10 application of the best available demonstrated control technology, proc-
11 esses, operating methods, or other alternatives.
12 § 3. For purposes of this act, "High-volume hydraulic fracturing" or
13 "(HVHF)" means hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction using
14 greater than 300,000 gallons of water regardless of whether the well is
15 vertical, directional or horizontal.
16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00796-01-3
