STATE OF NEW YORK
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7657
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 12, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to consumer
packaging of maple syrup; and to amend the environmental conservation
law, in relation to wash water from maple syrup processing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 160-u of the agriculture and
2 markets law, as amended by chapter 478 of the laws of 1971, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 b. Every consumer package of maple syrup offered or exposed for sale
5 shall be plainly and conspicuously marked as to the grade.
6 § 2. Section 17-0807 of the environmental conservation law is amended
7 by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
8 5. notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, wash water produced
9 during the process of making maple syrup shall not be considered a
10 pollutant under this title and shall be exempted from any state pollu-
11 tant discharge elimination system permit requirements.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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