Bill Text: NY S00354 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 354 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation 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 22 (c) for shower heads, at a constant water pressure of [eighty] sixty 23 pounds per square inch, maximum flow shall not exceed [2.5] 2.0 gallons 24 of water per minute; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04832-02-9S. 354 2 1 (d) for urinals and associated flush-valve, if any, maximum flow shall 2 not exceed an average of [one gallon] 0.5 gallons of water per flush 3 (except for urinals designated and marketed exclusively for use in pris- 4 ons or mental health care facilities); and 5 (e) except for water closets and toilets designed and marketed exclu- 6 sively for use in prisons or mental health care facilities, (1) for 7 water closets and associated flush-valve, if any, maximum flow shall not 8 exceed an average of [one and six-tenths] 1.28 gallons of water per 9 flush; (2) for dual-flush tank-type water closets, the average of two 10 reduced flushes and one full flush shall not exceed an average of 1.28 11 gallons of water per flush; and (3) for dual-flush flushometer-valve 12 water closets, maximum flow shall not exceed an average of 1.28 gallons 13 of water per flush; and 14 (f) drinking water fountains must be of a self-closing variety. 15 3. Each shower head, sink or lavatory faucet, both box and product, 16 shall be marked and labeled, and each water closet or urinal, or each 17 component if the water closet or urinal is comprised of two or more 18 components, both box and product, shall be marked and labeled in accord- 19 ance with the latest revision of the standards designated American 20 National Standards, written under American National Standards Institute 21 (ANSI), and, as applicable, the following United States environmental 22 protection agency watersense program specification: tank-type toilets 23 (June 2, 2014), lavatory faucets (October 1, 2007), flushing urinals 24 (October 8, 2009), and flushometer-valve toilets (December 17, 2015). 25 8. The commissioner, to the extent practicable and appropriate, shall 26 utilize the latest revision of the standards designated American 27 National Standards, written under American National Standards Institute 28 (ANSI) procedures in determining requirements under this section, and, 29 as applicable, the following United States environmental protection 30 agency watersense program specification: tank-type toilets (June 2, 31 2014), lavatory faucets (October 1, 2007), flushing urinals (October 8, 32 2009), and flushometer-valve toilets (December 17, 2015). 33 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.