Bill Text: NY A08829 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         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.
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