Bill Text: FL S1082 | 2021 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Diesel Exhaust Fluid

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 77 (Ch. 2021-61) [S1082 Detail]

Download: Florida-2021-S1082-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2021                             CS for SB 1082
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Albritton
       
       
       
       
       
       596-03303-21                                          20211082c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to diesel exhaust fluid; creating s.
    3         330.401, F.S.; requiring specified public airports to
    4         require a diesel exhaust fluid safety mitigation and
    5         exclusion plan for certain fixed-base operators;
    6         specifying plan requirements; requiring public
    7         airports to make such plans available for review
    8         during inspections by the Department of Transportation
    9         after a specified date; requiring the department to
   10         convene a workgroup of public airport representatives
   11         by a specified date to develop specified uniform
   12         industry standards; authorizing the department to
   13         adopt rules; providing an effective date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   16  
   17         Section 1. Section 330.401, Florida Statutes, is created to
   18  read:
   19         330.401 Diesel exhaust fluid safety mitigation and
   20  exclusion plan.—
   21         (1)(a) Each public airport as defined in s. 330.27 at
   22  which:
   23         1. Aviation fuels receive onsite treatment with fuel system
   24  icing inhibitors;
   25         2. Aviation fuel is delivered by a publicly or privately
   26  owned fixed-base operator; and
   27         3. Any aircraft fuel delivery vehicle or ground service
   28  equipment that uses diesel exhaust fluid is operated within 150
   29  feet of any aircraft,
   30  
   31  shall require a diesel exhaust fluid safety mitigation and
   32  exclusion plan for each fixed-base operator that performs onsite
   33  treatment of aviation fuel with a fuel system icing inhibitor.
   34         (b) The plan must include, at a minimum:
   35         1. A full inventory of all the fixed-base operator’s diesel
   36  exhaust fluid on the premises of the airport.
   37         2. Designation of specific areas where the fixed-base
   38  operator’s diesel exhaust fluid may be stored on the premises of
   39  the airport. To the extent practicable, such areas may not be
   40  located within or on a vehicle operated for the fueling or
   41  servicing of aircraft or at any aviation fuel transfer facility
   42  or bulk aviation fuel storage facility.
   43         3. Designation of specific areas where diesel exhaust fluid
   44  may be added to vehicles. Such areas may not be located in
   45  aircraft operating areas.
   46         4. Incorporation of best practices for ensuring the proper
   47  labeling and storage of diesel exhaust fluid.
   48         5. Incorporation of training in the proper use and storage
   49  of diesel exhaust fluid for all employees of the fixed-base
   50  operator who may come in contact with such fluid in the ordinary
   51  course of their duties.
   52         6. Designation of specific areas where the fixed-base
   53  operator’s fuel system icing inhibitor may be stored on the
   54  premises of the airport.
   55         7. Incorporation of best practices for ensuring the proper
   56  labeling and storage of the fixed-base operator’s fuel system
   57  icing inhibitor.
   58         8. Incorporation of training in the proper use and storage
   59  of fuel system icing inhibitors for all employees of the fixed
   60  base operator who may come in contact with fuel system icing
   61  inhibitors in the ordinary course of their duties.
   62         (2) Each public airport must, by January 1, 2022, make the
   63  diesel exhaust fluid safety mitigation and exclusion plan for
   64  each fixed-based operator available for review during
   65  inspections by the Department of Transportation.
   66         (3) The Department of Transportation shall, by September 1,
   67  2021, convene a workgroup of public airport representatives to
   68  develop uniform industry standards based upon the requirements
   69  of paragraph (1)(b) and NATA Operational Best Practice No. 36,
   70  DEF Handling and Contamination, to ensure consistency of
   71  industry standards.
   72         (4) The Department of Transportation may adopt rules to
   73  develop a uniform industry standards form for the diesel exhaust
   74  fluid safety mitigation and exclusion plan based upon the
   75  recommendations provided by the workgroup pursuant to subsection
   76  (3).
   77         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.