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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 588
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT PROHIBITING OFF-SHORE DRILLING FOR O IL AND GAS IN
CONNECTICUT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 22a-473 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) No person may engage in exploratory drilling for oil or gas until 3
the regulations required by section 22a-472 are adopted. 4
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, 5
no person shall engage in drilling for oil or gas, exploratory or 6
otherwise, in the territorial waters of the state. No state agency or 7
department, including, but not limited to, the Department of Energy 8
and Environmental Protection, shall issue or approve any permit, 9
lease, contract or conveyance for, or relating to, the drilling for oil or 10
gas in the territorial waters of the state. 11
(c) No person shall engage in the practice of seismic mapping in the 12
territorial waters of the state. No state agency or department, 13
including, but not limited to, the Department of Energy and 14
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Environmental Protection, shall issue or approve any permit, lease, 15
contract or conveyance for, or relating to, seismic mapping in the 16
territorial waters of the state. For the purposes of this section, "seismic 17
mapping" means the use of sound wave technology to locate and map 18
rocks and other geological formations below the Earth's surface that 19
may contain oil or gas. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 22a-473
Statement of Purpose:
To minimize adverse environmental and tourism impacts from off-
shore oil and gas drilling.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.; SEN. DUFF, 25th Dist.
SEN. MCCRORY, 2nd Dist.; SEN. CASSANO, 4th Dist.
SEN. LESSER, 9th Dist.; SEN. COHEN, 12th Dist.
SEN. ABRAMS, 13th Dist.; SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.
SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist.; SEN. MOORE, 22nd Dist.
SEN. KUSHNER, 24th Dist.; SEN. HASKELL, 26th Dist.
SEN. FLEXER, 29th Dist.; SEN. NEEDLEMAN, 33rd Dist.
REP. RYAN, 139th Dist.
S.B. 588