Enacts the "oil and gas waste management act of 2016" to require solid waste management facilities accepting waste from oil and gas drilling operations to screen such waste for radioactivity.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3060--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, LITTLE, MARCELLINO, MURPHY, O'MARA -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
proper screening of waste derived from oil and gas drilling operations
for radioactivity prior to disposal at regulated solid waste manage-
ment facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that the
2 environmental conservation law provides for the establishment and
3 permitting of solid waste management facilities. Given the significant
4 increase in oil and gas drilling activity in Pennsylvania and other
5 states, which has resulted in the disposal in this state of wastes
6 generated from drilling activities in other states, and to address any
7 oil and gas drilling wastes that may be generated by operations in the
8 state, the legislature hereby finds that solid waste management facili-
9 ties that receive waste generated from oil and gas drilling activities
10 should be required to implement screening and rejection criteria for
11 radioactivity as a condition to obtaining a permit to operate such a
12 solid waste management facility.
13 § 2. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "oil
14 and gas waste management act of 2016".
15 § 3. Section 27-0707 of the environmental conservation law is amended
16 by adding a new subdivision 2-d to read as follows:
17 2-d. Any permit issued to a solid waste management facility that
18 intends to accept waste from oil and gas drilling activities shall
19 include screening and rejection criteria for radioactivity in such
20 wastes.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06204-02-6