Assembly Bill A7645

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the department of environmental conservation to adopt rules and regulations requiring permittees to conduct continuous air monitoring equipment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A7645 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7870
2021-2022: A1037

2019-A7645 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of environmental conservation to adopt rules and regulations requiring permittees to conduct continuous air monitoring at an appropriate distance from permitted waste transfer stations to measure data for sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, meteorological data, PM 1.0 and PM 2.5.

2019-A7645 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7645
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to direct the department of environmental conservation  to  adopt
   rules  and  regulations  requiring  permittees to place air monitoring
   equipment near permitted waste transfer stations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  No later than January 1, 2021, the department of environ-
 mental conservation shall adopt rules and regulations requiring  permit-
 tees  to  conduct  continuous  air monitoring to measure data for sulfur
 dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, meteorological data, PM 1.0
 and PM 2.5.  Such regulations shall also require that for each pollutant
 monitors utilized are designated as federal reference methods or federal
 equivalent methods, as applicable, in accordance with 40  CFR  Part  53;
 are  continuously-recording types, if available; and that the number and
 locations of monitors shall be  adequate  to  detect  pollution  concen-
 tration  gradients  of  emissions  from  operation  of the facility that
 affect publicly accessible areas near the facility.
   The number and locations of  monitors  shall  be  adequate  to  detect
 pollution  concentration  gradients  of  emissions from operation of the
 waste transfer stations that affect nearby publicly accessible areas.
   Resulting air quality data shall be required to be made  available  to
 the  department  of environmental conservation and the public and posted
 on the department's website.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01910-02-9

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