Bill Text: NY S08450 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to temporarily waive fuel and fuel additive requirements in extreme and unusual circumstances; requires such circumstances to be unforeseeable or as the result of a natural disaster.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08450-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8450
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 8, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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
          authorizing  the department of environmental conservation to temporar-
          ily waive fuel and fuel additive requirements in extreme  and  unusual
          circumstances
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  19-0301  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law  is  amended  by  adding  a new paragraph f to read as
     3  follows:
     4    f. Temporarily waive specific requirements of this section, or  estab-
     5  lish  temporary alternative requirements respecting the use of a fuel or
     6  fuel additive if the department  determines that:
     7    (1) extreme and unusual fuel or  fuel  additive  supply  circumstances
     8  exist  which  prevent the distribution of an adequate supply of the fuel
     9  or fuel additive to consumers; and
    10    (2) such extreme and unusual fuel  or  fuel  additive  supply  circum-
    11  stances  are  the  result  of  a natural disaster, or another event that
    12  could not have been reasonably foreseen.
    13    A temporary fuel and fuel additive supply circumstance waiver pursuant
    14  to this  paragraph shall (i) be effective for a defined period  of  time
    15  that  permits a transitional  period after the termination of the tempo-
    16  rary waiver to permit wholesalers and  retailers  to  blend  down  their
    17  wholesale  and  retail  inventory;  and (ii) apply to all persons in the
    18  motor fuel distribution system.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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