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Senate Bill S1682

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to placing a moratorium on the renewal of permits to drill in the Lloyd Sands in Kings and Queens counties

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2019-S1682 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3019
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15-1528, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4087
2017-2018: S4011, A7817

2019-S1682 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to placing a moratorium on the renewal of permits to drill in the Lloyd Sands in Kings and Queens counties.

2019-S1682 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1682 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1682
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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  a
   moratorium  on  the  renewal of permits to drill in the Lloyd Sands in
   Kings and Queens counties

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 15-1528 of the environmental conservation law, as
 added by chapter 773 of the laws  of  1986,  subdivisions  2  and  4  as
 amended  by  chapter  567  of  the  laws  of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
 § 15-1528. Moratorium on the drilling of  [new]  CERTAIN  wells  in  the
              Lloyd Sands.
   1.  The  department is directed to identify those areas of Long Island
 within the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk which, for  the
 purposes of this section, shall be considered coastal communities.
   2.  (A)  A  moratorium  shall  be  established  on the granting of new
 permits to drill public water supply, private water supply or industrial
 wells into the Lloyd Sands or to permit new withdrawals  of  water  from
 the  Lloyd  Sands  or to permit the storage or pumping of water into the
 Lloyd Sands.  Such moratorium shall apply to  all  areas  that  are  not
 coastal  communities,  provided however that such moratorium shall apply
 to all areas including coastal communities for the storage or pumping of
 water into the Lloyd Sands. The waters  of  the  Lloyd  Sands  shall  be
 reserved  for  the  use  of  coastal  communities during the moratorium,
 however, nothing required herein shall affect the permits of wells pres-
 ently screened in the Lloyd Sands and withdrawing water therefrom.
   (B) A MORATORIUM SHALL BE  ESTABLISHED  ON  THE  GRANTING  OF  RENEWAL
 PERMITS TO DRILL PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY OR INDUSTRIAL
 WELLS  INTO  THE  LLOYD SANDS OR TO PERMIT WITHDRAWALS OF WATER FROM THE
 LLOYD SANDS OR TO PERMIT THE STORAGE OR PUMPING OF WATER INTO THE  LLOYD
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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