Bill Text: NY A03135 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a nontoxic dry cleaning incentive grant program; requires dry cleaners to completely replace their perchloroethylene-based dry cleaning system with a nontoxic system to be eligible for a grant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A03135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03135-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3135
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          creation of a nontoxic dry cleaning incentive grant program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new article 48 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 48
     4                            NONTOXIC DRY CLEANING
     5  Section 48-0101. Nontoxic dry cleaning incentive grant program.
     6  § 48-0101. Nontoxic dry cleaning incentive grant program.
     7    1.  The  commissioner shall develop and implement a grant program from
     8  moneys appropriated for such purpose that provides  incentives  for  dry
     9  cleaners in the state that utilize perchloroethylene in their operations
    10  to  transition  to  utilizing  dry  cleaning  systems  determined by the
    11  department to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming.
    12    2. To be eligible for a grant pursuant  to  this  section,  applicants
    13  shall  completely  replace  their  perchloroethylene-based  dry cleaning
    14  system with a system that the department determines  to  be  appropriate
    15  and  has  determined to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming.  The department
    16  shall determine the eligibility of grant recipients pursuant to publicly
    17  available criteria with consideration given  to  ensuring  an  equitable
    18  geographic distribution.
    19    3. (a) The department shall make grants available in the amount of ten
    20  thousand dollars to any eligible dry cleaning operation for the purchase
    21  of  a professional dry cleaning system that uses a nontoxic and nonsmog-
    22  forming process.
    23    (b) The department shall ensure that the grant moneys provided  pursu-
    24  ant  to  this  section are awarded in a manner that directly reduces air
    25  contaminants or reduces the  public  health  risk  associated  with  air
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07661-01-9
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     1  contaminants  in  communities  with the most significant exposure to air
     2  contaminants or localized air contaminants, or both, including, but  not
     3  limited to, environmental justice communities.
     4    4. Commencing April second, two thousand twenty, and every three years
     5  thereafter,  the  department  shall  provide a report to the legislature
     6  evaluating the effectiveness of the grant program.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
     8  the date upon which it shall have become a law.