NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1483

Senate Bill S1483

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits the transportation of any waste product or byproduct from hydraulic fracturing operations

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2019-S1483 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7154
Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §23-1712, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S5123, A7503
2015-2016: S47, A4943
2017-2018: S274, A4839

2019-S1483 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the transportation of any waste product or byproduct from hydraulic fracturing operations.

2019-S1483 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1483

SPONSOR: HOYLMAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in
relation to prohibiting the transportation or shipment of any waste
product or byproduct from hydraulic fracturing operations

 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the transportation or shipment of any waste product or
byproduct from hydraulic fracturing operations

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this legislation is to prevent the disposal of high
volume hydraulic fracturing waste from being transported or disposed of
in New York State.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

This legislation amends the environmental conservation law to prohibit
high volume hydraulic fracturing waste or waste by-products from being
transported or shipped into or out of New York State for treatment,
discharge, disposal, or storage purposes.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York State waste and treatment facilities are currently the recipi-
ent of waste products from hydraulic fracturing products and by-pro-
ducts. Waste products and by-products from hydraulic fracturing can
legally be disposed of at municipal water treatment plants because the
waste is currently exempt from the federal Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws.
As the result of this exemption, natural gas operators transporting
fracking waste are not considered to be transporting or receiving
"hazardous" waste, and thus are not required to meet the safeguards
established by RCRA and other regulations. In the absence of federal
regulations, states regulate the handling, treatment, and storage of
fracking waste.

New York State announced a ban on high volume hydraulic fracturing in
December 2014, yet regulations for handling and disposing of this waste
continue to undergo review. In addition, the United States Environmental
Protection Agency has not completed its study of the possible health
impacts of such waste products on drinking water resources and is work-
ing on national pretreatment standards for waste disposal in municipal
sewage-treatment plants or private treatment plants, after finding that
many of them are not properly equipped to treat this type of wastewater,
and may be discharging pollutants to rivers and other streams. Addi-
tionally, the EPA warned that there was probably not enough capacity at
out-of-state treatment plants to handle polluted water from New York.

In March of 2012, the Niagara Falls City Council blocked a proposal by
its local waste treatment facility to accept fracking waste in order to
offset declining revenues. Since then, at least 15 counties and many
municipalities including New York City have adopted local legislation
banning the treatment, transport, storage and disposal of drilling
fluids within jurisdictional limits.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S. 274 of 2017-2018 (Hoylman): Died in Environmental Conservation
A.  4839 of 2017-2018 (O'Donnell): Died in Environmental Conservation
S.47 of 2015-2016 (Hoylman): Died in Environmental Conservation
A.4943 of 2015-2016 (O'Donnell): Died in Environmental Conservation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect immediately.

2019-S1483 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1483
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, ADDABBO, KRUEGER, SERRANO -- read twice and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  the  transportation  or  shipment of any waste product or
   byproduct from hydraulic fracturing operations
 
   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 23-1712 to read as follows:
 § 23-1712. PROHIBITION ON THE TRANSPORTATION OR SHIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSE
              OF TREATMENT, DISCHARGE, DISPOSAL OR STORAGE OF HIGH VOLUME
              HYDRAULIC FRACTURING WASTE PRODUCT  OR  BY-PRODUCT  IN  NEW
              YORK STATE.
   NO  PERSON,  FIRM,  PARTNERSHIP OR CORPORATION SHALL TRANSPORT OR SHIP
 FOR THE PURPOSE OF TREATMENT, DISCHARGE, DISPOSAL OR STORAGE,  ANY  HIGH
 VOLUME  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING  WASTE PRODUCT AND/OR BY-PRODUCT RESULTING
 FROM HIGH VOLUME HYDRAULIC FRACTURING  OIL  AND/OR  GAS  EXPLORATION  OR
 PRODUCTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07334-01-9

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