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Assembly Bill A7105A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway

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2023-A7105 - Details

Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23-0305, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6913
2013-2014: A9074, A3561
2015-2016: A4905, A211
2017-2018: A451, A4720
2019-2020: A2295, A7933
2021-2022: A903, A5136
2025-2026: A4725

2023-A7105 - Summary

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

2023-A7105 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7105
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells,
   pools or fields on any highway

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT THE USE OF DRILLING FLUIDS AND FLOW-
 BACK WATER FROM WELLS, POOLS OR FIELDS ON ANY  HIGHWAY,  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SUBDIVISION  FOURTEEN  OF SECTION TWO OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW, FOR ANY
 PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-ICING, DUST SUPPRESSION
 OR ANY OTHER USE. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THIS  PROHIBITION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY  TO THE USE OF BRINE PRODUCED FROM SOLUTION MINING WELLS, NATURAL-
 LY-OCCURRING BRINE EXTRACTED FROM WELLS DRILLED  FOR  THAT  PURPOSE,  OR
 BRINE  ASSOCIATED  WITH  PRODUCTION OR STORAGE WELLS THAT IS NOT CONTAM-
 INATED BY PRODUCTION OR STORAGE, AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05381-03-3

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2023-A7105A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23-0305, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6913
2013-2014: A9074, A3561
2015-2016: A4905, A211
2017-2018: A451, A4720
2019-2020: A2295, A7933
2021-2022: A903, A5136
2025-2026: A4725

2023-A7105A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

2023-A7105A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7105--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the  Commit-
   tee  on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
   sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   prohibiting the use of drilling fluids, brine, and flowback water from
   wells, pools or fields on any highway
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT THE USE OF DRILLING  FLUIDS,  BRINE,
 AND  FLOWBACK  WATER  FROM  WELLS,  POOLS  OR  FIELDS ON ANY HIGHWAY, AS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  TRANSPORTATION
 LAW,  FOR  ANY  PURPOSE,  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-ICING,
 DUST SUPPRESSION OR ANY OTHER USE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05381-04-4

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