Senate Bill S4203

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2021-S4203 (ACTIVE) - Details

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
2019-2020: S2490
2023-2024: S2022

2021-S4203 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S4203 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4203 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4203
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  COMRIE,  LIU,  MYRIE  -- 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.
                                                            LBD03390-01-1

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