Bill Text: NY S02490 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires putrescible and non-putrescible waste to be covered by a hard tarp when transported by rail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to environmental conservation [S02490 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02490-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2490
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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
          covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail
          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  27-0712  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  402  of the laws of 1989, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its
     5  behalf or any other individual, firm or corporation shall not  cause  or
     6  permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or
     7  scow  unless  the  solid  waste  on the vehicle, barge, ship, or scow is
     8  covered provided, however, that putrescible waste  transported  by  rail
     9  shall  be  covered  with  sealing hard lids in a manner not inconsistent
    10  with Federal Railroad Administration  regulations,  and  non-putrescible
    11  waste  shipped  by  rail  shall  be  covered  with hard tarping securely
    12  fastened over the load, which shall not exceed the height of the side of
    13  the rail container, in a manner not inconsistent with  Federal  Railroad
    14  Administration regulations.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02174-01-9
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