STATE OF NEW YORK
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7986
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 30, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to elim-
inating the installation or covering of mercury-containing flooring in
elementary and secondary schools
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 27-2119 to read as follows:
3 § 27-2119. Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring.
4 1. Commencing a year after the calendar year in which this section
5 takes effect, no public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school
6 shall install a mercury-containing floor nor shall any school install a
7 floor over a mercury-containing floor prior to removal of the mercury-
8 containing floor.
9 2. The time weighted average mercury vapor exposure for an employee or
10 student of a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall
11 not exceed 750 ng/m (3).
12 3. For purposes of this section:
13 (a) "mercury-containing floor" shall mean a floor containing phenyl-
14 mercuric-acetate catalyst.
15 (b) "time weighted average" shall mean an employee's average airborne
16 exposure in an eight-hour work shift of a forty-hour work week or for a
17 person under the age of eighteen shall mean sixteen hours or less per
18 week averaged over the school year.
19 § 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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