Bill Text: NY S03488 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3488 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the use of pentachlorophenol with regard to new or existing transmission utility poles or facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03488 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03488-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 3488                                                  A. 5048
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
          Conservation
        IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced  by  M. of A. THIELE, OTIS -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the use of pentachlorophenol with regard to new or exist-
          ing transmission utility poles or facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 37 of the environmental conservation law is amended
     2  by adding a new title 9 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE IX
     4                              PENTACHLOROPHENOL
     5  Section 37-0901. Definition.
     6          37-0903. Prohibition.
     7          37-0905. Applicability.
     8  § 37-0901. Definition.
     9    As used in this title:
    10    "Pentachlorophenol",  CAS  registry  number 87-86-5 otherwise known as
    11  PCP, means a manufactured organic chemical that is used primarily as  an
    12  industrial wood preservative.
    13  § 37-0903. Prohibition.
    14    No electric corporation, as defined by subdivision thirteen of section
    15  two  of  the  public  service  law; authority, as defined in subdivision
    16  three of section one thousand twenty-b of the  public  authorities  law;
    17  telephone  corporation, utility company, or cable television company, as
    18  defined by subdivisions seventeen and twenty-three of  section  two  and
    19  subdivision one of section two hundred twelve of the public service law,
    20  respectively; shall apply pentachlorophenol (PCP) to the operation, use,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03185-01-9

        S. 3488                             2                            A. 5048
     1  or  maintenance  of  any  new  or existing transmission utility poles or
     2  facilities owned or used, in whole or in part, by such electric company,
     3  authority, telephone corporation, utility company  or  cable  television
     4  company after the effective date of this title.
     5  § 37-0905. Applicability.
     6    The  provisions  of this title shall only apply within counties with a
     7  population of one million or more which draw  their  primary  source  of
     8  drinking water for a majority of county residents from a designated sole
     9  source aquifer.
    10    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.