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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2478 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the sale or use of any liquid waste product from hydraulic fracturing operations and requiring the department of environmental conservation to establish rules and regulations concerning the proper disposal of waste products generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 23-1712 to read as follows: 3 § 23-1712. Prohibition on the sale or use of any liquid waste product 4 from hydraulic fracturing operations. 5 1. No person shall sell, purchase or utilize any liquid waste product 6 from hydraulic fracturing operations, including, but not limited to 7 fracking waste brine. 8 2. The department shall establish rules and regulations concerning the 9 proper disposal of any and all waste products generated during the proc- 10 ess of hydraulic fracturing. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 12 the department of environmental conservation shall establish rules and 13 regulations concerning the proper disposal of any and all waste products 14 generated during the process of hydraulic fracturing within ninety days 15 of the effective date of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05455-01-5