STATE OF NEW YORK
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3179--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, MAY -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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. Section 37-0119 of the environmental conservation law, as
2 added by chapter 596 of the laws of 2021, is renumbered section 37-0123.
3 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 37-0123 of the environ-
4 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 596 of the laws of 2021 and
5 such section as renumbered by section one of this act, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 a. "Coal tar" means a viscous substance obtained by the destructive
8 distillation of coal, including but not limited to ethylene cracked
9 residues or steam cracked residues, and containing levels of polycyclic
10 aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in excess of [ten] one thousand milligrams
11 per kilogram.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect two years after it shall have become a
13 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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