Bill Text: NY A00594 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the toxic information clearinghouse; provides substances hazardous to public health, safety or the environment that have been identified or listed as a hazardous waste in regulations promulgated pursuant to section 27-0903 or 37-0103 of the environmental conservation law; provides chemical hazard traits and environmental and toxicological end-point data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A00594 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00594-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           594

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          creation of the toxics information clearinghouse

          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 4 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE IV
     4                       TOXIC INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE
     5  Section 37-0401. Toxic information clearinghouse.
     6  § 37-0401. Toxic information clearinghouse.
     7    1. Substances hazardous to public health, safety  or  the  environment
     8  that  have been identified or listed as a hazardous waste in regulations
     9  promulgated pursuant to section 27-0903 of this chapter  and  substances
    10  that appear on the list in regulations promulgated pursuant to paragraph
    11  (a) of subdivision one of section 37-0103 of this article shall be post-
    12  ed  on  a website established and maintained by the department and shall
    13  be accessible to the public.
    14    2. The website established and maintained pursuant to subdivision  one
    15  of  this  section shall provide chemical hazard traits and environmental
    16  and toxicological end-point data of the substances identified  in  regu-
    17  lation.
    18    3. The department shall consult with other states, the federal govern-
    19  ment,  and  other  nations  to identify available data related to hazard
    20  traits and the environmental and toxicological end-points.
    21    4. This title shall not limit or be construed  to  limit  the  depart-
    22  ment's  or  any other agency's existing authority over hazardous materi-
    23  als.
    24    § 2. Section 37-0307 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
    25  by chapter 663 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00856-01-3
        A. 594                              2

     1  § 37-0307. Availability of information.
     2    1. The release forms required under this title are intended to provide
     3  information to government agencies and the public, including citizens of
     4  communities  surrounding  covered  facilities. The release form shall be
     5  available to inform persons about releases of  toxic  chemicals  to  the
     6  environment;  to  assist  government  agencies,  researchers,  and other
     7  persons in the conduct of research and data gathering;  to  aid  in  the
     8  development  of  appropriate regulations, guidelines, and standards; and
     9  for similar purposes. Each  release  form  shall  be  printed  out  upon
    10  request  and  made  available during normal working hours to the general
    11  public at the main office of the department and at the  regional  office
    12  that encompasses the region in which the facility is located.
    13    2.  [The  commissioner  shall maintain in a computer data base a toxic
    14  chemical inventory based on data submitted to the commissioner  pursuant
    15  to  this  title.  Such  data  shall  be made available upon request as a
    16  printout and diskette, as per request.
    17    3.] By December thirty-first of  each  year,  the  commissioner  shall
    18  issue  a  written  report  that  shall  be available at no charge to the
    19  public in which the information  compiled  pursuant  to  this  title  is
    20  summarized for each facility subject to the provisions of this title.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect twenty-four months after it shall have
    22  become  a  law.  Effective  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or
    23  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    24  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    25  on or before such effective date.