Bill Text: NY S07577 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing notice of crude oil shipments to major facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-06 - PRINT NUMBER 7577A [S07577 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7577
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to notice of  crude  oil
          shipments to major facilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The navigation law is amended by adding a new section 174-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 174-c. Notice of crude oil shipments to major facilities. 1. A major
     4  facility that receives crude  oil  from  a  railroad  car  must  provide
     5  advance  notice  to  the  commissioner  as provided in this section. The
     6  advance notice must, at a minimum, include the route taken to the facil-
     7  ity within the state,  if  known,  and  the  scheduled  time,  location,
     8  volume,  region per bill of lading, and gravity as measured by standards
     9  developed by the American petroleum institute, of  crude  oil  received.
    10  Each  week,  a  facility that provides advance notice under this section
    11  must provide the required information regarding the scheduled arrival of
    12  railroad cars carrying crude oil to be received by the facility  in  the
    13  succeeding seven-day period. A major facility is not required to provide
    14  advance notice when there is no receipt of crude oil from a railroad car
    15  scheduled for a seven-day period.
    16    2. The commissioner shall share information provided by a major facil-
    17  ity  with  the state emergency management office and any municipal emer-
    18  gency response agency upon request.
    19    3. The commissioner must post public information collected under  this
    20  section  on a quarterly basis on the office's internet web site provided
    21  that the information published by the commissioner must be aggregated on
    22  a statewide basis by route through the state, by week, and  by  type  of
    23  crude  oil.  The  report may also include other information available to
    24  the office including, but not limited to,  place  of  origin,  modes  of
    25  transport,  number of railroad cars delivering crude oil, and number and
    26  volume of spills during transport and delivery.
    27    4. A facility providing advance  notice  under  this  section  is  not
    28  responsible  for  meeting  advance  notice  timeframe requirements under
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  subdivision one of this section  in  the  event  that  the  schedule  of
     2  arrivals  of railroad cars carrying crude oil changes during a seven-day
     3  period.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.