Bill Text: NY S00354 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to water saving performance standards; aligns water saving performance standards with the WaterSense Program guidelines developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - approval memo.26 [S00354 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00354-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         354--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KAMINSKY,  ADDABBO, KAVANAGH, SANDERS, SERRANO --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to water
          saving performance standards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 8 of section 15-0314 of the  environ-
     2  mental  conservation law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 2002,
     3  are amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The water  saving  performance  standards  for  sink  and  lavatory
     5  faucets, shower heads, drinking water fountains, urinals and water clos-
     6  ets,  including  tank-type  toilets, flushometer-tank toilets, flushome-
     7  ter-valve  toilets,  electromechanical  hydraulic  toilets,   dual-flush
     8  toilets  and  all  other  types  of  toilets  that use water shall be as
     9  follows:
    10    (a) for lavatory faucets, at a constant  water  pressure  of  [eighty]
    11  sixty  pounds  per  square inch, maximum flow shall not exceed [2.5] 1.5
    12  gallons of water per minute (or  .25  gallons  per  cycle  for  lavatory
    13  faucets  designed  as  metering  faucets) and provided that those faucet
    14  models installed in public buildings must be of a  self-closing  variety
    15  and  must  be  designed  to limit the discharged flow rate of water to a
    16  maximum of .5 gallons per minute at a constant water pressure  of  sixty
    17  pounds  per  square inch or must be of the metering type which limit the
    18  discharge of water to a maximum of .25 gallons per cycle; and
    19    (b) for sink faucets, at a constant water pressure of  [eighty]  sixty
    20  pounds  per square inch, maximum flow shall not exceed [2.5] 2.2 gallons
    21  of water per minute; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04832-03-9
        S. 354--A                           2
     1    (c) for shower heads, at a constant water pressure of  [eighty]  sixty
     2  pounds  per square inch, maximum flow shall not exceed [2.5] 2.0 gallons
     3  of water per minute; and
     4    (d) for urinals and associated flush-valve, if any, maximum flow shall
     5  not  exceed  an  average  of [one gallon] 0.5 gallons of water per flush
     6  (except for urinals designated and marketed exclusively for use in pris-
     7  ons or mental health care facilities); and
     8    (e) except for water closets and toilets designed and marketed  exclu-
     9  sively  for  use  in  prisons  or mental health care facilities, (1) for
    10  water closets and associated flush-valve, if any, maximum flow shall not
    11  exceed an average of [one and six-tenths]  1.28  gallons  of  water  per
    12  flush;  (2)  for  dual-flush tank-type water closets, the average of two
    13  reduced flushes and one full flush shall not exceed an average  of  1.28
    14  gallons  of  water  per  flush; and (3) for dual-flush flushometer-valve
    15  water closets, maximum flow shall not exceed an average of 1.28  gallons
    16  of water per flush; and
    17    (f) drinking water fountains must be of a self-closing variety.
    18    3.  Each  shower  head, sink or lavatory faucet, both box and product,
    19  shall be marked and labeled, and each water closet or  urinal,  or  each
    20  component  if  the  water  closet  or urinal is comprised of two or more
    21  components, both box and product, shall be marked and labeled in accord-
    22  ance with the latest  revision  of  the  standards  designated  American
    23  National  Standards, written under American National Standards Institute
    24  (ANSI), and, as applicable, the following  United  States  environmental
    25  protection  agency  watersense  program specification: tank-type toilets
    26  (June 2, 2014), lavatory faucets (October  1,  2007),  flushing  urinals
    27  (October 8, 2009), and flushometer-valve toilets (December 17, 2015).
    28    8.  The commissioner, to the extent practicable and appropriate, shall
    29  utilize  the  latest  revision  of  the  standards  designated  American
    30  National  Standards, written under American National Standards Institute
    31  (ANSI) procedures in determining requirements under this  section,  and,
    32  as  applicable,  the  following  United  States environmental protection
    33  agency watersense program  specification:  tank-type  toilets  (June  2,
    34  2014),  lavatory faucets (October 1, 2007), flushing urinals (October 8,
    35  2009), and flushometer-valve toilets (December 17, 2015).
    36    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.