Relates to wastewater from hydraulic fracturing and directs the commissioner of the DEC to promulgate rules and regulations requiring screening of such wastewater to not cause harm to sewage treatment works.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2673
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, DINOWITZ, GUNTHER, JAFFEE,
COLTON, ABINANTI, MILLER, O'DONNELL, LAVINE, ROBERTS, KAVANAGH, LIFTON
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, CAHILL, COOK, GLICK, GOTT-
FRIED, ROSENTHAL, SCHIMEL, THIELE, TITONE -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
wastewater from hydraulic fracturing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 17-1905 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as
3 follows:
4 f. Promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to (1)
5 require that any wastewater from hydraulic fracturing be screened to
6 determine if it is appropriate for treatment by any sewage treatment
7 works so as to not cause harm to the treatment processes that are
8 designed to remove nitrogen and organic human or mammalian waste; and
9 (2) prohibit the acceptance by any sewage treatment works of wastewater
10 from hydraulic fracturing containing any contaminants which such sewage
11 treatment facility was not designed to treat, including, but not limited
12 to radioactivity, carcinogens, bases, acids, solvents, slickening
13 agents, metals, hydrocarbons and high salinity solutions derived from
14 hydraulic fracturing activities.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07431-01-5
