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A302Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS98

Ban Fracking Wastewater Disposal

Official title

“Relates to prohibiting the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater from oil or natural gas extraction activities at wastewater treatment facilities and solid waste management facilities”

Sponsor David BuchwaldAD-93+29 co-sponsorsAffects Legal
Status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Impact
6/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 3 of 7

Floor calendar · Jun 18

What's happening

This bill bans the acceptance and disposal of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater at New York wastewater and solid waste facilities.

Why it matters

  1. Closes loopholes that previously allowed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) wastewater from out-of-state sources to be processed or disposed of in New York, even though fracking itself is already banned in the state.

  2. Reduces the risk of contamination to New York's water supplies and environment by prohibiting the introduction of fracking waste—including flowback water, production water, and brine—at both wastewater treatment plants and solid waste management facilities.

  3. Limits the burden on local infrastructure and public health systems that could result from handling toxic and potentially radioactive waste by ensuring such materials cannot legally enter New York’s waste streams.

  4. Signals a broader commitment to environmental protection in state policy, potentially influencing similar measures in other states or at the federal level, and reinforcing New York’s stance on fossil fuel-related environmental risks.

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Ban Fracking Wastewater Disposal

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
David Buchwald

Assembly Member · Assembly District 93

History

  1. Ordered to third reading rules cal.270
  2. Rules report cal.270
  3. Reported
  4. Reported referred to rules
  5. Reported referred to ways and means
  6. Reported referred to codes
  7. Print number 302b
  8. Amend (t) and recommit to environmental conservation
  9. Referred to environmental conservation
  10. Print number 302a
  11. Amend and recommit to environmental conservation
  12. Referred to environmental conservation

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S98Senate

Ban Fracking Wastewater Disposal

In Senate Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Brad Hoylman-Sigal

Impact 6 · Moderate0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

302--B

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 5, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO, COLTON, MOSLEY, GUNTHER, BICHOTTE, LIFTON, GOTTFRIED, ROZIC, RYAN, TITONE, BARRETT, OTIS, STECK, ZEBROWSKI, BLAKE, JAFFEE, BARRON, ARROYO, WALKER, QUART, CAHILL, GALEF, ABINANTI, L. ROSENTHAL --… Show all

Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD, ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPARDO, COLTON, MOSLEY, GUNTHER, BICHOTTE, LIFTON, GOTTFRIED, ROZIC, RYAN, TITONE, BARRETT, OTIS, STECK, ZEBROWSKI, BLAKE, JAFFEE, BARRON, ARROYO, WALKER, QUART, CAHILL, GALEF, ABINANTI, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, GLICK, HEVESI, MAGEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee 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 banning the acceptance of high volume hydraulic fracturing wastewater from oil or natural gas extraction at wastewater treatment facilities and solid waste management facilities

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 17-1905 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:

f. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the introduction of high volume hydraulic fracturing waste from oil or natural gas extraction including, but not limited to, flowback water and production water or brine into any wastewater treatment facility within the state.

§ 2. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:

7. The department shall adopt regulations prohibiting the disposal of high volume hydraulic fracturing waste from oil or natural gas extraction from being deposited in a solid waste management facility.

§ 3. 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.

LBD01587-04-8

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