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Assembly Bill A4905

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway

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2015-A4905 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง23-0305, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6913
2013-2014: A9074, A3561
2017-2018: A451, A4720
2019-2020: A2295, A7933
2021-2022: A903, A5136
2023-2024: A7105
2025-2026: A4725

2015-A4905 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway.

2015-A4905 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4905

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, ABINANTI, ENGLEBRIGHT, OTIS, LIFTON --
  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BUCHWALD -- 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 flowback water from wells, pools or fields on
  any highway

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

  Section  1.   Section 23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
amended by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
  15. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT  THE  USE  OF  FLOWBACK  WATER  FROM
WELLS,  POOLS  OR FIELDS ON ANY HIGHWAY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR-
TEEN OF SECTION TWO OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW, FOR ANY PURPOSE,  INCLUD-
ING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-ICING, DUST SUPPRESSION OR ANY OTHER
USE.
  S 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.
                                                           LBD07741-01-5

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