S 2706: Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2706 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, ADDABBO, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, MAYER, PARKER, RIVERA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ- mental 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: 1 Section 1. Section 23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows: 3 16. The department shall prohibit the use of drilling fluids and flow- 4 back water from wells, pools or fields on any highway, as defined in 5 subdivision fourteen of section two of the transportation law, for any 6 purpose, including but not limited to use for de-icing, dust suppression 7 or any other use. Provided, however, that this prohibition shall not 8 apply to the use of brine produced from solution mining wells, natural- 9 ly-occurring brine extracted from wells drilled for that purpose, or 10 brine associated with production or storage wells that is not contam- 11 inated by production or storage, as determined by the department. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06152-01-5