Bill Text: NY S05817 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to bioheating fuel requirements; allows B100 or B99 biofuel and R100 or R99 renewable fuel to be used to blend with or replace fossil heating oil in order to create bioheating fuel.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05817-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5817--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER,  ORTT,  WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
          mental Conservation -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
          to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          bioheating fuel requirements

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

     1    Section 1. Section 19-0327 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 750 of the laws of 2021, paragraph (b) of subdivision
     3  1  and  subdivision  9  as  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2022, is
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5  § 19-0327. Bioheating fuel requirements.
     6    (1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following  terms
     7  shall have the following meanings:
     8    (a)  ["Biodiesel"] "Biofuel" shall mean a fuel, designated one hundred
     9  percent B100 or a blend of ninety-nine percent B99 biodiesel by  volume,
    10  that  meets  the  requirements  of  the ASTM international specification
    11  D6751 or the requirements of the ASTM international specification  D975;
    12  provided,  however, that biofuel shall include R100 or R99 produced from
    13  hydroprocessing renewable biomass feedstocks.
    14    (b) "Renewable Hydrocarbon Diesel" shall mean a  [North  American-pro-
    15  duced]  fuel derived from vegetable oils, animal fats, and other renewa-
    16  ble feedstocks that meet the requirements of ASTM international specifi-
    17  cation D975. Renewable hydrocarbon  shall  not  include  any  fuel  from
    18  co-processed biomass with a feedstock that is not biomass.
    19    (c)  "Bioheating  fuel"  shall  mean  a  fuel, designated B100 or B99,
    20  comprised of [biodiesel] biofuel blended with petroleum heating oil that

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01634-10-4

        S. 5817--B                          2

     1  meets the requirements of the ASTM international specification  D396,  a
     2  [fuel  comprised  of domestically-produced renewable hydrocarbon diesel]
     3  biofuel, designated R100 or R99 with petroleum heating  oil  that  meets
     4  the  specifications  of  ASTM international specification D975, or other
     5  specifications as determined by the commissioner.
     6    (d) "Heating oil" shall mean petroleum oil refined for the purpose  of
     7  use  as  fuel for combustion in a space and/or water heating system that
     8  meets the requirements of the [ATSM]  ASTM  international  specification
     9  D396 or other specifications as determined by the commissioner.
    10    (e)  "Feedstock"  shall mean soybean oil, oil from annual cover crops,
    11  algal oil, biogenic waste oils, fats or greases, or non-food grade  corn
    12  oil, provided that the commissioner may, by rules and regulations, modi-
    13  fy  the definition of feedstock based on the vegetable oils, animal fats
    14  or cellulosic biomass listed in table 1 of 40 C.F.R. § 80.1426.
    15    (2) On and after July first, two thousand eighteen,  all  heating  oil
    16  sold  for use in any building within the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and
    17  Westchester shall be bioheating fuel that contains at least five percent
    18  [biodiesel] biofuel.
    19    (3) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-two, all  heating  oil
    20  sold  for  use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel
    21  that contains at least five percent [biodiesel] biofuel.
    22    (4) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-five, all heating  oil
    23  sold  for  use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel
    24  that contains at least ten percent [biodiesel] biofuel.
    25    (5) On or after July first, two thousand thirty, all heating oil  sold
    26  for  use  in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel that
    27  contains at least twenty percent [biodiesel] biofuel.
    28    (6) The minimum content requirements of this section shall  not  apply
    29  to kerosene.
    30    (7)  The  governor  may,  by  issuing  an executive order, temporarily
    31  suspend the applicability of this section  at  any  time  based  on  the
    32  governor's determination, after consulting with the New York state ener-
    33  gy  research  and development authority and the department, that meeting
    34  the requirement of subdivision two of this section is not  feasible  due
    35  to  lack  of  adequate supply of [biodiesel] biofuel or that meeting the
    36  requirement would result in financial hardship to consumers.
    37    (8) The requirements of this section shall not: (a) prohibit the  sale
    38  and  use  of  bioheating fuel with the same or any greater percentage of
    39  [biodiesel] biofuel blended with heating oil, or the sale and use of one
    40  hundred percent [biodiesel] biofuel,  for  space  and/or  water  heating
    41  purposes  in the state; and (b) preempt any laws of the city of New York
    42  with respect to mandated percentage levels of [biodiesel] biofuel blends
    43  with heating oil provided that such laws require  the  same  or  greater
    44  percentage  of  [biodiesel] biofuel blended with heating oil as required
    45  by this section.
    46    (9) No bioheating fuel shall be sold to a customer that would void the
    47  manufacturer's warranty for  that  burner  or  boiler  type  unless  the
    48  [bioheat] bioheating fuel provider warranties in writing to the customer
    49  that  the  use of such bioheating fuel will be covered to the extent and
    50  time limits of the warranty then covering such burner or boiler.
    51    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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