Bill Text: NY S06308 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale and use of pavement products containing coal tar.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to codes [S06308 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06308-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6308--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. METZGER, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 coal tar in pavement products 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 37-0117 to read as follows: 3 § 37-0117. Coal tar; prohibited. 4 1. A person shall not sell or offer for sale a pavement product 5 containing coal tar. 6 2. A person shall not apply a pavement product that is labeled as 7 containing coal tar on a driveway or parking area. 8 3. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the 9 following meanings: 10 a. "Coal tar" means a viscous substance obtained by the destructive 11 distillation of coal and containing levels of polycyclic aromatic hydro- 12 carbons (PAHs) in excess of ten thousand milligrams per kilogram. 13 b. "Pavement product" means a material that is for use on an asphalt 14 or concrete surface, including but not limited to sealcoat. 15 § 2. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to preempt any local law 16 restricting the use of coal tar pavement products adopted prior to the 17 effective date of this act. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that 19 subdivision 1 of section 37-0117 of the environmental conservation law, 20 as added by section one of this act, shall take effect twelve months 21 after it shall have become a law; provided further that subdivision 2 of 22 section 37-0117 of the environmental conservation law, as added by 23 section one of this act, shall take effect forty-eight months after it 24 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01018-05-0