Senate Bill S2490

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires certain waste transported by rail to be covered with hard tarping

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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-S2490 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3269
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-0712, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6098
2017-2018: S3676, A5809
2021-2022: S4203
2023-2024: S2022

2019-S2490 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires putrescible and non-putrescible waste to be covered by a hard tarp when transported by rail.

2019-S2490 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2490 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2490
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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
   covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  27-0712  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  402  of the laws of 1989, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its
 behalf or any other individual, firm or corporation shall not  cause  or
 permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or
 scow  unless  the  solid  waste  on the vehicle, barge, ship, or scow is
 covered PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT PUTRESCIBLE WASTE  TRANSPORTED  BY  RAIL
 SHALL  BE  COVERED  WITH  SEALING HARD LIDS IN A MANNER NOT INCONSISTENT
 WITH FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION  REGULATIONS,  AND  NON-PUTRESCIBLE
 WASTE  SHIPPED  BY  RAIL  SHALL  BE  COVERED  WITH HARD TARPING SECURELY
 FASTENED OVER THE LOAD, WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED THE HEIGHT OF THE SIDE OF
 THE RAIL CONTAINER, IN A MANNER NOT INCONSISTENT WITH  FEDERAL  RAILROAD
 ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02174-01-9

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