STATE OF NEW YORK
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5750
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, GRAF -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Energy
AN ACT relating to the public awareness of the use and benefits of
biofuel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The New York state energy and research development
2 authority (NYSERDA) shall develop a program to increase the public's
3 awareness of the use and benefits of biofuel including, but not limited
4 to, an advertisement campaign of such benefits.
5 2. For purposes of this act:
6 a. "biofuel" shall mean a fuel which includes biodiesel, ethanol, and
7 agri-biodiesel or any other standard approved by NYSERDA;
8 b. "biodiesel" shall mean a fuel comprised exclusively of mono-alkyl
9 esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal
10 fats, designated B100, which meets the specifications of American Socie-
11 ty of Testing and Materials designation D 6751-02;
12 c. "ethanol" shall mean ethyl alcohol manufactured in the United
13 States and its territories and sold (i) for fuel use and which has been
14 rendered unfit for beverage use in a manner and which is produced at a
15 facility approved by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms
16 and explosives for the production of ethanol for fuel, or (ii) as dena-
17 tured ethanol used by blenders and refiners which has been rendered
18 unfit for beverage use; and
19 d. "agri-biodiesel" shall mean biodiesel derived solely from virgin
20 oils including, but not limited to, esters derived from virgin vegetable
21 oils from corn, soybeans, sunflower seeds, cottonseeds, canola, crambe,
22 grapeseeds, safflowers, flaxseeds, rice bran, mustard seeds and from
23 animal fats.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
25 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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