Assembly Bill A9678

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing

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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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2019-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6906
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 23 Title 29 §23-2901, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4099
2023-2024: S7970

2019-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing.

2019-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9678
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing
 
   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 new title 29 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 29
         HORIZONTAL DRILLING AND HIGH-VOLUME HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
 SECTION 23-2901. PROHIBITION  ON  HORIZONTAL  DRILLING  AND  HIGH-VOLUME
                    HYDRAULIC FRACTURING.
 § 23-2901. PROHIBITION  ON HORIZONTAL DRILLING AND HIGH-VOLUME HYDRAULIC
              FRACTURING.
   1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "HIGH-VOLUME HYDRAULIC FRACTURING" MEANS THE STIMULATION OF A WELL
 USING  THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE GALLONS OF WATER AS THE BASE FLUID
 FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING FOR ALL STAGES IN A WELL COMPLETION, REGARDLESS
 OF WHETHER THE WELL IS VERTICAL OR  DIRECTIONAL,  INCLUDING  HORIZONTAL.
 THE  THREE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND-GALLON  THRESHOLD IS THE SUM OF ALL WATER,
 FRESH AND RECYCLED, USED FOR ALL STAGES IN A WELL COMPLETION.
   (B) "GELLED PROPANE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING" MEANS A  PROCESS  THAT  USES
 GELLED  PROPANE  OR  LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS TO FRACTURE GEOLOGIC FORMA-
 TIONS.
   2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,  HIGH-VOLUME  HYDRAULIC
 FRACTURING  AND  GELLED  PROPANE  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING  SHALL BE DEEMED
 PROHIBITED IN THE STATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14480-01-9

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