2022 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 23 - Mineral Resources
Title 11 - Leases for Production and Storage of Oil and Gas on State Lands
23-1105 - Prohibition on State Authorizations Related to Certain Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Production.

§ 23-1105. Prohibition   on  state  authorizations  related  to  certain
           offshore oil and natural gas production.
1. Neither the department nor the office  of  general  services  shall
  enter  into  any new lease or other conveyance, lease renewal, extension
  or modification, that authorizes the exploration for, or the development
  and production of, oil or natural gas upon lands owned by the  state  in
  the  marine  and  coastal district as defined in section 13-0103 of this
  chapter, that would result  in  the  increase  of  oil  or  natural  gas
  production from federal waters.
2.   The   department  is  authorized  to  establish  such  rules  and
  regulations as it shall deem necessary to implement this section.
3. For the purposes of this section,  the  following  terms  have  the
  following meanings:
a.  "Development"  means  those  activities taking place following the
  discovery of  oil  and  natural  gas,  including  geophysical  activity,
  drilling, platform construction, pipeline construction, and operation of
  all  onshore  support  facilities that are performed for the purposes of
  ultimately producing the resources discovered.
b. "Exploration" means the process of searching for  oil  and  natural
  gas,   including  any  drilling  whether  on  or  off  known  geological
  structures, including the drilling of a well in which a discovery of oil
  or natural gas is made and the drilling of  any  additional  delineation
  well after the discovery that is needed to delineate any reservoir and a
  lessee to determine whether to proceed with development and production.
c.  "Federal  waters"  means  those  waters  and submerged lands lying
  seaward to the state waters of New York that  appertain  to  the  United
  States and are subject to federal jurisdiction and control.
d.  "New  or additional exploration, development, or production of oil
  or natural  gas"  includes  any  activity  undertaken  to  increase  the
  capacity  of  any pipeline or other infrastructure used to convey oil or
  natural gas from federal waters.
e. "Production" means those  activities  that  take  place  after  the
  successful  completion  of  any means for the removal of oil and natural
  gas, including that removal, field operations, transfer or resources  to
  shore,   operation,  monitoring,  maintenance,  and  workover  drilling.
  "Producing" means undertaking those activities.