STATE OF NEW YORK
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3179
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 37-0119 of the
2 environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 596 of the laws of
3 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. "Coal tar" means a viscous substance obtained by the destructive
5 distillation of coal, including but not limited to ethylene cracked
6 residues or steam cracked residues, and containing levels of polycyclic
7 aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in excess of [ten] one thousand milligrams
8 per kilogram.
9 § 2. 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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