NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1005

Senate Bill S1005

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "oil and gas waste management act of 2019" to require solid waste management facilities accepting waste from oil and gas drilling operations to screen such waste for radioactivity

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2019-S1005 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §27-0707, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S7311
2015-2016: S3060
2017-2018: S568

2019-S1005 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "oil and gas waste management act" to require solid waste management facilities accepting waste from oil and gas drilling operations to screen such waste for radioactivity.

2019-S1005 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1005

SPONSOR: YOUNG
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
proper screening of waste derived from oil and gas drilling operations
for radioactivity prior to disposal at regulated solid waste management
facilities

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill is intended to ensure that the disposal of potentially radio-
active materials from oil and gas drilling operations do not constitute
an environmental hazard when deposited in a landfill within New York.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Provides legislative findings such that solid waste manage-
ment facilities that receive waste generated from oil and gas drilling
activities should be required to implement screening and rejection

criteria for radioactivity as a condition to obtaining a permit to oper-
ate such a solid waste management facility.

Section 2: Provides that this act shall be known as "the oil and gas
waste management act of 2019".

Section 3: Directs the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation to
incorporate screening and rejection criteria for radioactivity when
issuing a permit for any solid waste management facility that intends to
accept waste from oil and gas drilling.

Section 4: Provides for an immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Lately there has been an increasing amount of concern over the potential
threats to safety from radioactive drill cuttings generated by oil and
gas operations in other states which enter into the New York waste
stream.

This legislation will mitigate the threats posed to the public under the
current system of high volume fracturing waste transport and disposal in
New York. The bill requires the incorporation of radioactive screening
and rejection criteria in solid waste facility permits for any solid
waste facility that accepts waste from oil and gas drilling activities.
It will result in the rejection of drilling wastes which do not meet the
standards imposed by the department of environmental conservation for
acceptance at a landfill in New York. Screening criteria will also
provide a clearer picture of the amount of potentially hazardous radio-
active materials which may be entering New York's waste stream.

This bill is intended to ensure that oil and waste products do not pose
an environmental danger when they come to ultimately rest in New York.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018: S.568-A Referred to Environmental Conservation

2017: S.568 Reported and Committed to Rules

2016: S.3060-A Passed Senate

2015: S.3060 Passed Senate

2014: S.7311 Reported and Committed to Finance

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Minimal.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S1005 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1005
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG,  LITTLE,  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
   mental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   proper screening of waste derived from oil and gas drilling operations
   for  radioactivity  prior to disposal at regulated solid waste manage-
   ment facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that the
 environmental  conservation  law  provides  for  the  establishment  and
 permitting of solid waste management facilities. Given  the  significant
 increase  in  oil  and  gas  drilling activity in Pennsylvania and other
 states, which has resulted in the  disposal  in  this  state  of  wastes
 generated  from  drilling activities in other states, and to address any
 oil and gas drilling wastes that may be generated by operations  in  the
 state,  the legislature hereby finds that solid waste management facili-
 ties that receive waste generated from oil and gas  drilling  activities
 should  be  required  to  implement screening and rejection criteria for
 radioactivity as a condition to obtaining a permit  to  operate  such  a
 solid waste management facility.
   § 2. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "oil
 and gas waste management act of 2019".
   §  3. Section 27-0707 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 2-d to read as follows:
   2-D. ANY PERMIT ISSUED TO  A  SOLID  WASTE  MANAGEMENT  FACILITY  THAT
 INTENDS  TO  ACCEPT  WASTE  FROM  OIL  AND GAS DRILLING ACTIVITIES SHALL
 INCLUDE SCREENING AND  REJECTION  CRITERIA  FOR  RADIOACTIVITY  IN  SUCH
 WASTES.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03739-01-9

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