Bill Text: NY S06344 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to bioheating fuel requirements and bioheating fuel tax credits; requires all heating oil sold for use in any building in the state on and after July 1, 2022 be bioheating fuel that contains a minimum percent biodiesel or renewable hydrocarbon diesel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - PRINT NUMBER 6344A [S06344 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06344-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6344--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAMINSKY, PARKER -- 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 bioheating fuel requirements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 19-0327 of the environmental conservation law, as 2 added by chapter 315 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 19-0327. Bioheating fuel requirements. 4 (1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms 5 shall have the following meanings: 6 (a) "Biodiesel" shall mean a fuel, designated B100, that meets the 7 [specifications] requirements of the [American Society for Testing and8Materials designation] ASTM international specification D6751 [composed9exclusively of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from10feedstock], or the most recent specification. 11 (b) "Renewable Hydrocarbon Diesel" shall mean a domestically-produced 12 fuel derived from [vegetable oils, animal fats, and other renewable13feedstocks] an eligible feedstock that [meet] meets the [most recent14specifications] requirements of ASTM international specification D975, 15 or the most recent specification. Renewable hydrocarbon shall not 16 include any fuel from co-processed biomass with a feedstock that is not 17 biomass. 18 (c) "Bioheating fuel" shall mean a fuel comprised of biodiesel [blend-19ed with petroleum heating] or renewable hydrocarbon diesel that is 20 blended with heating oil that meets the [specifications] requirements of 21 the [American Society for Testing and Materials designation] ASTM inter- 22 national specification D396, or the most recent specification, a fuel EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11903-06-0S. 6344--A 2 1 comprised of domestically-produced renewable hydrocarbon diesel with 2 petroleum heating oil that meets the specifications of ASTM interna- 3 tional specification D975, or other specifications as determined by the 4 commissioner. 5 (d) "Heating oil" shall mean petroleum oil refined for the purpose of 6 use as fuel for combustion in a space and/or water heating system that 7 meets the [specifications] requirements of the [American Society for8Testing and Materials designation] ATSM international specification D396 9 or [other specifications as determined by the commissioner] the most 10 recent specification. 11 (e) "Feedstock" shall mean soybean oil, canola oil, oil from annual 12 cover crops, algal oil, biogenic waste oils, fats or greases, or non- 13 food grade corn oil, provided that the commissioner may, by rules and 14 regulations, modify the definition of feedstock based on the vegetable 15 oils, animal fats or cellulosic biomass listed in table 1 of 40 C.F.R. § 16 80.1426. 17 (2) On and after July first, two thousand eighteen, all heating oil 18 sold for use in any building within the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and 19 Westchester shall be bioheating fuel that contains at least five percent 20 biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon diesel. 21 (3) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-two, all heating oil 22 sold for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel 23 that contains at least five percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocar- 24 bon diesel. 25 (4) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-five, all heating oil 26 sold for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel 27 that contains at least ten percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocar- 28 bon diesel. 29 (5) On or after July first, two thousand thirty, all heating oil sold 30 for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel that 31 contains at least twenty percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon 32 diesel. 33 (6) The minimum content requirements of this section shall not apply 34 to kerosene. 35 [(3)] (7) The governor may, by issuing an executive order, temporarily 36 suspend the applicability of this section at any time based on the 37 governor's determination, after consulting with the New York state ener- 38 gy research and development authority and the department, that meeting 39 the requirement of subdivision two of this section is not feasible due 40 to lack of adequate supply of biodiesel or that meeting the requirement 41 would result in undue financial hardship to consumers. 42 [(4)] (8) The requirements of this section shall not: (a) prohibit the 43 sale and use of bioheating fuel with the same or any greater percentage 44 of biodiesel blended with heating oil, or the sale and use of one 45 hundred percent biodiesel, for space and/or water heating purposes in 46 the state; and (b) preempt any laws of the city of New York with respect 47 to mandated percentage levels of biodiesel blends with heating oil 48 provided that such laws require the same or greater percentage of biod- 49 iesel blended with heating oil as required by this section. 50 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.