Bill Text: NY A05423 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of transportation to promulgate regulations relating to deicing and inspections of deicing agents and systems for disposal thereof in airports within a watershed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to transportation [A05423 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05423-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5423
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CASTELLI, KATZ -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  directing  the
         commissioner  of  transportation to promulgate regulations relating to
         deicing and inspections of deicing agents  and  systems  for  disposal
         thereof in airports within a watershed
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
    2  14-n to read as follows:
    3    S  14-N.  DEICING  AND AVIATION AUDITS WITHIN A WATERSHED. THE COMMIS-
    4  SIONER, UPON CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSER-
    5  VATION, IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO:
    6    1. PROMULGATE REGULATIONS FOR  THE  PROPER  APPLICATION  AND  SPREADER
    7  RATES  FOR  ALL  DEICING  MATERIALS USED IN ALL WATERSHEDS AND CONSIDER,
    8  WHENEVER COST-EFFECTIVE  AND  OTHERWISE  FEASIBLE,  SUGGEST  OR  REQUIRE
    9  ALTERNATIVES TO DEICING AGENTS THAT ARE MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUITABLE TO
   10  PROTECT SURFACE AND GROUND DRINKING WATER SOURCES; AND
   11    2.  PROMULGATE  REGULATIONS  FOR THE EXAMINATION AND INSPECTION OF ALL
   12  DEICING AGENTS AND ALL STORM WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEMS FOR  THE  COLLECTION
   13  OR  DIVERSION  OF  AIRPORT  AND  AIRCRAFT DEICING AGENTS, WHICH ARE USED
   14  DIRECTLY IN  SUPPORT  OF  AIRCRAFT  OPERATIONS  WITHIN  ALL  WATERSHEDS,
   15  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROPERTY ADJACENT TO AIRPORTS.
   16    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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