Amd §37-0119, En Con L; amd §2, Chap of 2020 (as proposed in S.6829-B & A.8829-A)
Relates to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene; provides that no person shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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953
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene; and to amend a chapter
of the laws of 2020, amending the environmental conservation law
relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene, as proposed
in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A, in relation to
the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 37-0119 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the environmental
3 conservation law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethy-
4 lene, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A,
5 is amended to read as follows:
6 § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene.
7 1. [Beginning December first, two thousand twenty-one, no] No person
8 shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemi-
9 cal to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent
10 or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.
11 2. For purposes of this section:
12 (a) "Extraction solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific
13 substance from a mixture.
14 (b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a
15 cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again in
16 the refrigeration cycle.
17 (c) "Trichloroethylene" means a chemical with the Chemical Registry
18 Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) "Vapor degreaser" means a substance boiled to a vapor that
2 condenses onto metal parts, causing beading and dripping, and that
3 removes contaminants from the parts.
4 3. Severability. The provisions of this section shall be severable and
5 if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or
6 circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this section and the
7 application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
8 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the environ-
9 mental conservation law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichlo-
10 roethylene, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A.
11 8829-A, is amended to read as follows:
12 § 2. This act shall take effect [immediately] December 1, 2022.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however,
14 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
15 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the environmental
16 conservation law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethy-
17 lene, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A,
18 takes effect.
