Bill Text: NY S00902 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene; provides that no person shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-25 - SUBSTITUTED BY A953 [S00902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00902-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           902

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  certain uses of trichloroethylene; and to amend a chapter
          of the laws of  2020,  amending  the  environmental  conservation  law
          relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene, as proposed
          in  legislative  bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A, in relation to
          the effectiveness thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 37-0119 of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  added by a chapter of the  laws  of  2020,  amending  the  environmental
     3  conservation  law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethy-
     4  lene, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A.  8829-A,
     5  is amended to read as follows:
     6  § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene.
     7    1.  [Beginning  December first, two thousand twenty-one, no] No person
     8  shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemi-
     9  cal to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction  solvent
    10  or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.
    11    2. For purposes of this section:
    12    (a)  "Extraction  solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific
    13  substance from a mixture.
    14    (b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a
    15  cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again  in
    16  the refrigeration cycle.
    17    (c)  "Trichloroethylene"  means  a chemical with the Chemical Registry
    18  Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07192-01-1
        S. 902                              2

     1    (d) "Vapor degreaser"  means  a  substance  boiled  to  a  vapor  that
     2  condenses  onto  metal  parts,  causing  beading  and dripping, and that
     3  removes contaminants from the parts.
     4    3. Severability. The provisions of this section shall be severable and
     5  if  any  portion  thereof  or the applicability thereof to any person or
     6  circumstance is held invalid, the remainder  of  this  section  and  the
     7  application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
     8    § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the environ-
     9  mental conservation law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichlo-
    10  roethylene,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A.
    11  8829-A, is amended to read as follows:
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect [immediately] December 1, 2022.
    13    § 3. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately;  provided,  however,
    14  section  one  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
    15  same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the environmental
    16  conservation law relating to prohibiting certain uses of  trichloroethy-
    17  lene,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A,
    18  takes effect.