Relates to prohibiting the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater from oil or natural gas extraction activities at wastewater treatment facilities and solid waste management facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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437
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, ADDABBO, CARLUCCI, KRUEGER, MAYER, RIVERA,
SEPULVEDA, SERRANO -- 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
banning the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater
from oil or natural gas extraction at wastewater treatment facilities
and solid waste management facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 17-1905 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as
3 follows:
4 f. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the introduction
5 of high volume hydraulic fracturing waste from oil or natural gas
6 extraction including, but not limited to, flowback water and production
7 water or brine into any wastewater treatment facility within the state.
8 § 2. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is amended
9 by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
10 7. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the disposal of
11 high volume hydraulic fracturing waste from oil or natural gas
12 extraction from being deposited in a solid waste management facility.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00410-01-9
