Assembly Bill A4725

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids and flowback water from wells, pools or fields on any highway

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A4725 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2706
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23-0305, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6913
2013-2014: A9074, A3561, S3333
2015-2016: A4905, A211, S48
2017-2018: A451, A4720, S575
2019-2020: A2295, A7933, S1858
2021-2022: A903, A5136, S355
2023-2024: A7105, S1538

2025-A4725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A4725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4725
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT THE USE OF DRILLING FLUIDS AND FLOW-
 BACK WATER FROM WELLS, POOLS OR FIELDS ON ANY  HIGHWAY,  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SUBDIVISION  FOURTEEN  OF SECTION TWO OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW, FOR ANY
 PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-ICING, DUST SUPPRESSION
 OR ANY OTHER USE. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THIS  PROHIBITION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY  TO THE USE OF BRINE PRODUCED FROM SOLUTION MINING WELLS, NATURAL-
 LY-OCCURRING BRINE EXTRACTED FROM WELLS DRILLED  FOR  THAT  PURPOSE,  OR
 BRINE  ASSOCIATED  WITH  PRODUCTION OR STORAGE WELLS THAT IS NOT CONTAM-
 INATED BY PRODUCTION OR STORAGE, AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD06152-01-5

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