Bill Text: NY S08061 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the use of certain grades of fuel oil in any building or facility owned or operated by the state or any agency thereof.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-15 - PRINT NUMBER 8061C [S08061 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08061-Amended.html
Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the use of certain grades of fuel oil in any building or facility owned or operated by the state or any agency thereof.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-15 - PRINT NUMBER 8061C [S08061 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08061-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8061--A IN SENATE March 23, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit- tee on Finance -- 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 the use of certain heating oils in state, county and local government owned buildings 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 19-0329 to read as follows: 3 § 19-0329. Heating oil requirements for government owned buildings. 4 (1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms 5 shall have the following meanings: 6 (a) "Heating oil" means oil refined for the purpose of use as fuel for 7 combustion in a heating system and that meets the specifications of ASTM 8 designation D 396-12 or other specifications as determined by the 9 commission. 10 (b) "Heating system" means a system that generates heat, hot air, hot 11 water or steam by combustion and distributes it within a building, 12 provided that "heating system" shall not include wood burning stoves. 13 (2)(a) No person shall cause or permit the use in any state, county or 14 local government owned building or delivery to any state, county or 15 local government owned building for use in such building, heating oil 16 that is fuel oil grade no. 6 in an amount: 17 (i) greater than eighty percent of the heating oil for such building, 18 on and after July first, two thousand nineteen; 19 (ii) greater than sixty percent of the heating oil for such building, 20 on and after July first, two thousand twenty; 21 (iii) greater than forty percent of the heating oil for such building, 22 on and after July first, two thousand twenty-one; and 23 (iv) greater than twenty percent of the heating oil for such building, 24 on and after July first, two thousand twenty-two. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14684-04-8S. 8061--A 2 1 (b) On and after July first, two thousand twenty-three no person shall 2 cause or permit the use in any state, county or local government owned 3 building or delivery to any state, county or local government owned 4 building for use in such building, heating oil that is fuel oil grade 5 no. 6 in any amount. 6 (3)(a) No person shall cause of permit the use in any state, county or 7 local government owned building or delivery to any state, county or 8 local government owned building for use in such building, heating oil 9 that is fuel oil grade no. 4 in an amount: 10 (i) greater than ninety percent of the heating oil for such building, 11 on and after July first, two thousand nineteen; 12 (ii) greater than eighty percent of the heating oil for such building, 13 on and after July first, two thousand twenty; 14 (iii) greater than seventy percent of the heating oil for such build- 15 ing, on and after July first, two thousand twenty-one; 16 (iv) greater than sixty percent of the heating oil for such building, 17 on and after July first, two thousand twenty-two; 18 (v) greater than fifty percent of the heating oil for such building, 19 on and after July first, two thousand twenty-three; 20 (vi) greater than forty percent of the heating oil for such building, 21 on and after July first, two thousand twenty-four; 22 (vii) greater than thirty percent of the heating oil for such build- 23 ing, on and after July first, two thousand twenty-five; 24 (viii) greater than twenty percent of the heating oil for such build- 25 ing, on and after July first, two thousand twenty-six; and 26 (ix) greater than ten percent of the heating oil for such building, on 27 and after July first, two thousand twenty-seven. 28 (b) On and after July first, two thousand twenty-eight no person shall 29 cause or permit the use in any state, county or local government owned 30 building or delivery to any state, county or local government owned 31 building for use in such building, heating oil that is fuel oil grade 32 no. 4 in any amount. 33 (4) The governor may, by issuing an executive order, temporarily 34 suspend the applicability of this section at any time based on the 35 governor's determination, after consulting with the New York state ener- 36 gy research and development authority and the department, that meeting 37 the requirements of subdivision two or subdivision three of this section 38 is not feasible due to lack of adequate supply of heating oil or that 39 meeting the requirement would result in undue financial hardship to the 40 state, county or local governments. 41 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
