Assembly Actions -
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Apr 01, 2015 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Assembly Bill A6733
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ENGLEBRIGHT
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Michael G. Miller
Amy Paulin
Ellen C. Jaffee
multi-Sponsors
Thomas Abinanti
James F. Brennan
Deborah Glick
Richard Gottfried
2015-A6733 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A6733 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6733 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 1, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ROBERTS, DINOWITZ, MILLER, PAULIN, JAFFEE, COLTON, TITONE, CAHILL, MARKEY, KAVANAGH, LIFTON, SCHIMEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, BRENNAN, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, PERRY, ROSENTHAL, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to enact the "look before you leap act of 2015" relating to the imposition of a 5 year moratorium on high volume hydraulic fracturing for the purpose of conducting an investigation of the effect of hydraulic fracturing THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "look before you leap act of 2015." S 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that the drilling method, known as high-volume hydraulic fracturing or hydro- fracking, carries significant environmental risks that impact land, air and water resources. The legislature further finds that the natural gas industry has exemptions or exclusions from key parts of at least seven of the major federal environmental laws designed to protect air and water from radio- active and hazardous chemicals including: the national Environmental Policy Act; the Clean Air Act; the Clean Water Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the Superfund Act; and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. S 3. (a) There is hereby established a 5 year moratorium on the conducting of high volume hydraulic fracturing in this state to provide an opportunity for the state to learn from the hydrofracking experiences of other states, which is necessitated by the exemptions, granted to the natural gas industry, from major federal laws protecting our air, land and water from radioactive and toxic wastes, and to make a comprehensive and cumulative examination of the environmental impacts associated with EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03154-01-5
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