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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Feb 13, 2017 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Senate Bill S4404
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-S4404 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-S4404 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S4404Revised 3/1/17 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the use of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel and best available technology by the state PURPOSE : To exempt private sector vehicles from requirements to equip heavy-duty diesel vehicles with the best available retrofit technology for reducing the emission of pollutants, and to extend the date of compliance to the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2006 (DERA), as well as the waiver for noncompliance. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1 amends section 19-0323 of the Environmental Conservation Law to exempt private sector heavy-duty diesel vehicles from emissions-reducing retrofitting technology; extends the date of compliance for vehicles owned by, operated by or leased by the state to December 31, 2019; extends the expiration date of waivers issued by the department of environmental conservation (DEC) to December 31, 2022; and extends the date of first reporting by the commissioner on the use of best available retrofitting technology to January 1, 2020. Section 2 provides the effective date.
2017-S4404 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4404 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- 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 use of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel and best available technology by the state THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 19-0323 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 629 of the laws of 2006, subdivisions 3, 5 and 7 as amended by section 1 of part X of chapter 58 of the laws of 2016, and subdivisions 6 and 8 as renumbered by section 1 of part C of chapter 59 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: § 19-0323. Use of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel and best available tech- nology by the state. 1. As used in this section, the terms: a. "Ultra low sulfur diesel fuel" means diesel fuel having sulfur content of 0.0015 [per cent] PERCENT of sulfur or less. b. "Heavy duty vehicle" or "vehicle" means any on and off-road vehicle powered by diesel fuel and having a gross vehicle weight of greater than 8,500 pounds, except that those vehicles defined in section [101] ONE HUNDRED ONE of the vehicle and traffic law, paragraph [2] TWO of sched- ule E and paragraph (a) of schedule F of subdivision [7] SEVEN of section [401] FOUR HUNDRED ONE of such law, and vehicles specified in subdivision [13] THIRTEEN of section [401] FOUR HUNDRED ONE of such law, and farm type tractors and all terrain type vehicles used exclusively for agricultural or mowing purposes, or for snow plowing, other than for hire, farm equipment, including self-propelled machines used exclusively in growing, harvesting or handling farm produce, and self-propelled caterpillar or crawler-type equipment while being operated on the contract site, and timber harvesting equipment such as harvesters, wood chippers, forwarders, log skidders, and other processing equipment used EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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