Requires owners and operators of petroleum bulk storage facilities located in cities of one million or more to undertake comprehensive accident prevention plans for the prevention of spills and leaks of petroleum; further requires such owners or operators to hire an independent company to quarterly audit the implementation of such plan.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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480
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
comprehensive accident prevention planning by and auditing of petrole-
um bulk storage facilities in cities with a population of one million
or more
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 17-1006 to read as follows:
3 § 17-1006. Comprehensive accident prevention in cities with a population
4 of one million or more.
5 Every owner or operator of a facility, as defined in subdivision one
6 of section 17-1003 of this title, located within a city with a popu-
7 lation of one million or more shall undertake comprehensive accident
8 prevention planning for the prevention of spills and leaks of petroleum,
9 and shall hire an independent company to audit, on a quarterly basis,
10 the implementation by such owner or operator of the hazard control plan
11 adopted for such facility.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of
14 environmental conservation may promulgate rules and regulations neces-
15 sary to effectuate the provisions of this act prior to such effective
16 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00446-01-1
