Bill Text: NY S01729 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-12 - referred to environmental conservation [S01729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01729-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1729

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3  of  section  37-0119  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 596 of the laws of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. "Coal tar" means a viscous substance obtained  by  the  destructive
     5  distillation  of  coal,  including  but  not limited to ethylene cracked
     6  residues or steam cracked residues, and containing levels of  polycyclic
     7  aromatic  hydrocarbons (PAHs) in excess of [ten] one thousand milligrams
     8  per kilogram.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05781-01-3