Bill Text: NY A08829 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the use of trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use beginning December 1, 2021.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.66 [A08829 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08829-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8829--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, EPSTEIN, COLTON, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, DICKENS, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Envi- ronmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environ- mental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 37-0119 to read as follows: 3 § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene. 4 1. Beginning December first, two thousand twenty-one, no person shall 5 use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to 6 produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in 7 any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use. 8 2. For purposes of this section: 9 (a) "Extraction solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific 10 substance from a mixture. 11 (b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a 12 cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again in 13 the refrigeration cycle. 14 (c) "Trichloroethylene" means a chemical with the Chemical Registry 15 Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6. 16 (d) "Vapor degreaser" means a substance boiled to a vapor that 17 condenses onto metal parts, causing beading and dripping, and that 18 removes contaminants from the parts. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13807-06-0