Assembly Bill A4918

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting the use of toxic fracking solutions during hydraulic fracturing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §23-0505, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6953
2011-2012: A1265
2013-2014: A2908
2015-2016: A8432
2017-2018: A3304
2019-2020: A6904

2021-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of toxic fracking solutions during hydraulic fracturing.

2021-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4918
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. EPSTEIN, COLTON, ZEBROWSKI, GLICK -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting the use of certain fracking solutions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 23-0505 to read as follows:
 § 23-0505. HYDRAULIC   FRACTURING;   PROHIBITION   ON  CERTAIN  FRACKING
              SOLUTIONS.
   1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS  SHALL  HAVE  THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   A.  "FRACKING  SOLUTION"  SHALL MEAN A SUBSTANCE USED DURING HYDRAULIC
 FRACTURING WHICH IS INJECTED INTO ROCK FORMATIONS SURROUNDING OIL OR GAS
 DEPOSITS IN ORDER TO EXPAND THE ROCK AND FACILITATE  THE  EXTRACTION  OF
 OIL OR GAS; AND
   B.  "HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING"  SHALL MEAN A PROCESS USED TO CREATE FRAC-
 TURES THAT EXTEND FROM A BOREHOLE INTO ROCK FORMATIONS  TO  INCREASE  OR
 RESTORE THE RATE AT WHICH OIL OR GAS MAY BE PRODUCED FROM A WELL.
   2.  ON  AND  AFTER  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE OF THIS SECTION, EVERY PERSON
 GRANTED A WELL PERMIT PURSUANT TO SECTION 23-0501 OF THIS  TITLE  SHALL,
 DURING  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING,  USE  ONLY  FRACKING SOLUTION COMPOSED OF
 NATURAL AND ORGANIC MATERIALS. NO FRACKING SOLUTION  CONTAINING  DIESEL,
 BENZENE, ETHIBENZENE, TOLUENE, XYLENE, OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE DETERMINED
 BY  THE COMMISSIONER TO BE TOXIC SHALL BE USED DURING HYDRAULIC FRACTUR-
 ING ON OR AFTER SUCH DATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08996-01-1

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