A2924-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to environmental conservation
• Jan 21, 2011: referred to environmental conservation

A2924-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2924
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 January 21, 2011
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SWEENEY, JAFFEE, ZEBROWSKI, MAGNARELLI, KAVANAGH,
 TITONE,  COLTON,  CYMBROWITZ, SPANO, PAULIN, CASTRO, P. RIVERA, ROSEN
 THAL, MAISEL, PERRY, ORTIZ, BRENNAN, COOK, WEISENBERG, SCHIMEL, BARRON
 -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.    CASTELLI,  DESTITO,  GOTTFRIED,
 LENTOL,  MAGEE,  MARKEY,  McENENY,  O'DONNELL, THIELE -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
 requiring an environmental impact statement for any natural gas or oil
 drilling involving the use of hydraulic fracturing fluid
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivision  9  of  section  8-0109  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  219  of the laws of 1990, is
 amended to read as follows:

 9. An environmental impact statement shall be prepared for any  action
 found to have a significant impact on the special groundwater protection
 area,  as  defined in section 55-0107 of this chapter OR FOR ANY NATURAL
 GAS OR OIL DRILLING INVOLVING THE USE  OF  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING  FLUID.
 Such statement shall meet the requirements of the most detailed environ
 mental  impact statement required by this section or by any such rule or
 regulation promulgated pursuant to this section.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02959-01-1

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