Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 17, 2023 | referred to environmental conservation delivered to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.177 rules report cal.177 reported |
May 16, 2023 | reported referred to rules |
May 09, 2023 | referred to environmental conservation |
Current Bill Status - Passed Assembly
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Co-Sponsors
William Colton
Steven Otis
Linda Rosenthal
Dana Levenberg
A6949 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6604
- Current Committee:
- Senate Environmental Conservation
- Law Section:
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §23-0305, En Con L
A6949 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6949 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to exempting certain geothermal boreholes at depths beyond five hundred feet from certain requirements THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings and declaration. The legislature here- by finds and declares that: 1. The climate leadership and community protection act establishes the goal of reducing statewide greenhouse gas emission levels by 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 and 85% by the year 2050 and achieving net-zero emissions statewide by 2050. The climate leadership and community protection act further created and tasked the climate action council with developing a final scoping plan outlining recommendations for attaining New York's statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. 2. The climate action council's final scoping plan recognized the electrification of buildings - particularly through the installation of closed-loop geothermal heating and cooling systems - as a key strategy to achieve the widespread decarbonization of buildings that is necessary to achieve the climate leadership and community protection act goals. 3. The final scoping plan identifies that appropriate regulations and permit fees are not in place for geothermal boreholes deeper than five hundred feet and should be developed by the department of environmental conservation. Specifically, the department applies its regulations developed for oil and gas wells to geothermal wells greater than five hundred feet deep, even though closed-loop geothermal boreholes do not involve injection into or extraction from the ground and thus do not pose an impact adverse to the environment comparable to oil and gas wells. The department's existing regulations also apply on a per-well basis, thereby adding significant cost and permitting barriers to EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10951-02-3