A09819 Summary:

BILL NOA09819
 
SAME ASSAME AS S08017
 
SPONSOREnglebright
 
COSPNSRPellegrino, D'Urso, Thiele, Otis, Raia, Sepulveda, Ortiz, Aubry, Glick, Dinowitz, Braunstein, Galef, Jaffee, Santabarbara, Zebrowski, Lavine, Jean-Pierre, Colton, Cahill, Arroyo, Wright, Gottfried, Simon, Pichardo, Rivera, Mosley, Williams, Rosenthal L, Abinanti, Lifton, Fahy, Titone, Weprin, Skoufis, Steck, Murray, Hyndman, Seawright, Buchwald, Stern, Carroll, Solages, Hunter, Peoples-Stokes, Epstein, Quart, Lupardo, De La Rosa, Barrett, Rodriguez
 
MLTSPNSRCook, Cymbrowitz, Espinal, Lentol, Weinstein
 
Amd §23-1101, add §23-1105, En Con L
 
Relates to prohibiting state authorizations related to certain offshore oil and natural gas production.
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A09819 Actions:

BILL NOA09819
 
02/13/2018referred to environmental conservation
03/20/2018reported referred to codes
04/17/2018reported referred to ways and means
04/17/2018reported
04/19/2018advanced to third reading cal.766
04/24/2018passed assembly
04/24/2018delivered to senate
04/24/2018REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
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A09819 Committee Votes:

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Chair:Englebright DATE:03/20/2018AYE/NAY:30/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes
EnglebrightAyeStecAye
GlickAyeButlerAye
ColtonAyeRaiaAye
CymbrowitzAyePalumboAye
LiftonAyeMiller MLAye
O'DonnellAyeMiller B Aye
Peoples-StokesAyeGarbarinoAye
GuntherAyeWalterAye
JaffeeAye
TitoneAye
CrespoAye
ThieleAye
AbinantiAye
RyanAye
FahyAye
RozicAye
OtisAye
WilliamsAye
BarrettAye
D'UrsoAye
CarrollAye
PellegrinoAye

CODES Chair:Lentol DATE:04/17/2018AYE/NAY:22/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means
LentolAyeCurranAye
SchimmingerAyeGiglioAye
PretlowAyeMontesanoAye
CookAyeMorinelloAye
CymbrowitzAyePalumboAye
TitusAyeGarbarinoAye
O'DonnellAye
LavineAye
PerryAye
ZebrowskiAye
AbinantiAye
WeprinAye
MosleyAye
HevesiAye
FahyAye
SeawrightAye

WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Weinstein DATE:04/17/2018AYE/NAY:27/3 Action: Favorable
WeinsteinAyeOaksNay
LentolAyeCrouchNay
SchimmingerAyeBarclayNay
GanttExcusedFitzpatrickAye
GlickAyeHawleyExcused
NolanAyeMalliotakisAye
PretlowAyeWalterAye
PerryAyeMontesanoAye
ColtonAyeCurranAye
CookAyeRaAye
CahillAye
AubryAye
HooperAye
ThieleAye
CusickAye
OrtizAye
BenedettoAye
WeprinAye
RodriguezAye
RamosExcused
BraunsteinExcused
McDonaldAye
RozicAye
Peoples-StokesAye
SimotasExcused

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A09819 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A9819
 
SPONSOR: Englebright
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting state authorizations related to certain offshore oil and natural gas production   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:: To prohibit oil and natural gas drilling in New York's coastal areas.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:: This bill would amend Environmental Conservation Law § 231101 to prohib- it the leasing of state-owned underwater coastal lands for oil and natural gas drilling and also add a new § 23-1105 to prevent the Depart- ment of Environmental Conservation and the Office of General Services from authorizing leases that would result in the increase of oil or natural gas production from federal waters.   DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE): Not applicable.   JUSTIFICATION:: In a Presidential Executive Order issued on April 28, 2017, President Trump announced an "America-First Offshore Energy Strategy." The imple- mentation of this Executive Order included the United States Department of the Interior's (DOI) January 4, 2018 announcement regarding plans for the expansion of natural gas and oil drilling, and the release of the "2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program," by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The federal proposed offshore drilling expansion includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the approximately 270 million-acre Atlantic Region. The Atlantic Region, which extends north to Canada, east to the territorial waters of the Bahamas, and south to the territorial waters of Cuba, is divided into four planning areas - North Atlantic (which includes New York), Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida. The BOEM proposal includes a total of nine lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Atlantic Region, with two potentially taking place in the North Atlantic area that includes New York. Drilling off New York's Atlantic Coast has been off limits for decades and as a result, some of the State's laws regulating oil and natural gas drilling have not kept pace. This legislation would remedy that over- sight and prohibit the use of the State's underwater lands for drilling. Such a prohibition is in keeping with New York's coastal management practices, and also protects endangered and threatened species, such as the North Atlantic right whale, and the State's recreational and commer- cial fishing industries. In addition, this legislation, based in part on legislation from California, would prohibit DEC and OGS from providing leases that would result in the increase of oil or natural gas production from federal waters.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:: This is new legislation.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
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A09819 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9819
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 13, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, PELLEGRINO, D'URSO, THIELE -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  state  authorizations related to certain offshore oil and
          natural gas production
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 1 of section 23-1101 of
     2  the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 722 of the  laws
     3  of 1977, are amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  The  exploration, development and production of gas in state-owned
     5  lands, except state park lands,  the  marine  and  coastal  district  as
     6  defined  in  section  13-0103  of  this chapter, and the lands under the
     7  waters of Lake Ontario or along its shoreline; and
     8    b. The exploration, development and production of oil  in  state-owned
     9  lands,  except  state  park  lands,  the  marine and coastal district as
    10  defined in section 13-0103 of this chapter,  and  the  lands  under  the
    11  waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario or along their shorelines.
    12    §  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
    13  section 23-1105 to read as follows:
    14  § 23-1105. Prohibition  on  state  authorizations  related  to   certain
    15               offshore oil and natural gas production.
    16    1.  Neither  the  department  nor the office of general services shall
    17  enter into any new lease or other conveyance, lease  renewal,  extension
    18  or modification, that authorizes the exploration for, or the development
    19  and  production  of, oil or natural gas upon lands owned by the state in
    20  the marine and coastal district as defined in section  13-0103  of  this
    21  chapter,  that  would  result  in  the  increase  of  oil or natural gas
    22  production from federal waters.
    23    2. The department is authorized to  establish  such  rules  and  regu-
    24  lations as it shall deem necessary to implement this section.
    25    3.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, the following terms have the
    26  following meanings:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14741-02-8

        A. 9819                             2
 
     1    a. "Development" means those activities  taking  place  following  the
     2  discovery of oil and natural gas, including geophysical activity, drill-
     3  ing,  platform construction, pipeline construction, and operation of all
     4  onshore support facilities that are performed for the purposes of  ulti-
     5  mately producing the resources discovered.
     6    b.  "Exploration"  means  the process of searching for oil and natural
     7  gas, including any drilling whether on or off  known  geological  struc-
     8  tures,  including  the drilling of a well in which a discovery of oil or
     9  natural gas is made and the drilling of any additional delineation  well
    10  after  the  discovery  that  is  needed to delineate any reservoir and a
    11  lessee to determine whether to proceed with development and production.
    12    c. "Federal waters" means  those  waters  and  submerged  lands  lying
    13  seaward  to  the  state  waters of New York that appertain to the United
    14  States and are subject to federal jurisdiction and control.
    15    d. "New or additional exploration, development, or production  of  oil
    16  or natural gas" includes any activity undertaken to increase the capaci-
    17  ty of any pipeline or other infrastructure used to convey oil or natural
    18  gas from federal waters.
    19    e.  "Production"  means  those  activities  that  take place after the
    20  successful completion of any means for the removal of  oil  and  natural
    21  gas,  including that removal, field operations, transfer or resources to
    22  shore,  operation,  monitoring,  maintenance,  and  workover   drilling.
    23  "Producing" means undertaking those activities.
    24    § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    25  sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
    26  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
    27  impair,  on  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
    28  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
    29  or  part  thereof  directly  involved  in  the controversy in which such
    30  judgement shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be  in  the
    31  intent  of the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if
    32  such invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    33    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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