STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6829--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE November 1, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAMINSKY, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord- ance 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 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 37-0117 to read as follows: 3 § 37-0117. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene. 4 1. Beginning January 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 cleaning process or use; provided, however, 8 that dry cleaning establishments shall be permitted to use up to, but no 9 more than, one gallon of trichloroethylene per calendar year; provided 10 further, however, that the owner or operator of a dry cleaning estab- 11 lishment shall prohibit persons of childbearing age from being present 12 in a room in which trichloroethylene is being used for the duration of 13 the use of the tricholoroethylene. 14 2. Any person required to comply with this section shall replace 15 trichloroethylene with a chemical demonstrated to be less toxic to human 16 health and approved by the commissioner. 17 3. For purposes of this section: 18 (a) "Extraction solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific 19 substance from a mixture. 20 (b) "Person" means any individual, firm, association, partnership, 21 corporation, organization, or joint venture. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13807-04-0S. 6829--A 2 1 (c) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a 2 cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again in 3 the refrigeration cycle. 4 (d) "Trichloroethylene" means a chemical with the Chemical Registry 5 Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6. 6 (e) "Vapor degreaser" means a substance boiled to a vapor that 7 condenses onto metal parts, causing beading and dripping, and that 8 removes contaminants from the parts. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.