Bill Text: NY A01388 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to environmental conservation [A01388 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01388-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1388

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, KELLES, COLTON, BURDICK, SEAWRIGHT,
          REYES, SHIMSKY, LEVENBERG, MAMDANI, EPSTEIN,  FORREST,  RAGA  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
          definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 3 of section 37-0119 of the
     2  environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 596 of the  laws  of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  "Coal  tar"  means a viscous substance obtained by the destructive
     5  distillation of coal, including but  not  limited  to  ethylene  cracked
     6  residues  or steam cracked residues, and containing levels of polycyclic
     7  aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in excess of [ten] one thousand  milligrams
     8  per kilogram.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03930-01-5