Assembly Bill A10211

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates the High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing Waste Tracking Program

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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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2011-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6892
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 23 Title 25 §§23-2501 & 23-2503, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A7271, S4657

2011-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing Waste Tracking Program; requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to track the generation, transportation and receipt of liquid and solid waste associated with the production of oil and gas.

2011-A10211 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10211

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 11, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SWEENEY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  creating the "High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing Waste Tracking Program"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Article 23 of the environmental conservation law is amended
by adding a new title 25 to read as follows:
                                TITLE 25
         HIGH-VOLUME HYDRAULIC FRACTURING WASTE TRACKING PROGRAM
SECTION 23-2501. DEFINITIONS.
        23-2503. HIGH-VOLUME   HYDRAULIC   FRACTURING   WASTE   TRACKING
                   PROGRAM.
S 23-2501. DEFINITIONS.
  1.  "FLOWBACK  FLUID" MEANS LIQUIDS PRODUCED DURING INITIAL COMPLETION
AND CLEAN UP OF THE WELL OR CLEAN UP OF A WELL FOLLOWING RE-FRACTURE  OR
WORK OVER OF A WELL.
  2.  "GENERATORS" MEANS ANY OWNER OR OPERATOR OF AN OIL OR GAS WELL PAD
WHOSE ACTS OR PROCESSES PRODUCE SOLID OR LIQUID WASTE.
  3. "HIGH-VOLUME HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING"  OR  "(HVHF)"  MEANS  HYDRAULIC
FRACTURING FOR NATURAL GAS EXTRACTION USING GREATER THAN 300,000 GALLONS
OF  WATER  REGARDLESS  OF  WHETHER  THE WELL IS VERTICAL, DIRECTIONAL OR
HORIZONTAL.
  4.   "MANIFEST" MEANS THE FORM  USED  FOR  IDENTIFYING  THE  QUANTITY,
COMPOSITION,  AND  THE  ORIGIN,  ROUTING,  AND DESTINATION OF LIQUID AND
SOLID WASTE DURING ITS TRANSPORTATION FROM THE POINT  OF  GENERATION  TO
ANY INTERMEDIATE POINTS AND FINALLY TO THE POINT OF ULTIMATE DISPOSAL.
  5.  "OIL  AND GAS PRODUCTION" MEANS ALL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF OIL AND GAS, INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED
TO, (A) DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS WELLS; (B) ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH
DRILLING,  STIMULATING, COMPLETING, OR OPERATING AN OIL OR GAS WELL; (C)
ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR OPERATION  OF  FACILITIES
FOR  THE  COLLECTION  AND  TRANSMISSION  OF OIL AND GAS FROM OIL AND GAS
WELLS TO CONSUMERS; AND (D) THE TRANSPORTATION OF  MATERIALS  ASSOCIATED

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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