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NY S08473
Bill
Status
8/20/2010
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Parker
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AI Summary
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Amends Navigation Law Section 174 to require the Department of Environmental Conservation to mandate prompt detection of petroleum discharges as a condition for issuing or renewing major facility licenses.
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Requires license applicants to submit satisfactory evidence of implementing state and federal plans for control, prompt detection, containment, and removal of petroleum discharges.
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Requires applicants to describe the equipment used at their facility to promptly detect petroleum discharges as part of the licensing application.
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Mandates major facilities install equipment to detect petroleum discharges from tanks and connected pipelines within one year of the effective date.
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Defines "prompt detection" as identification of a discharge within twenty-four hours, or sooner as prescribed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Legislative Description
Requires the department of environmental conservation to require, as a condition precedent to the issuance or renewal of a major facility license, the submission of satisfactory evidence that the applicant has implemented, or is in the process of implementing, state and federal plans and regulations for the prompt detection of petroleum discharges; requires applicants for a major facility license to submit information, in form satisfactory to the commissioner, describing the equipment used at the facility to promptly detect petroleum discharges; requires major facilities to install equipment to promptly detect discharges of petroleum from a tank and any connected petroleum pipelines within one year of effective date; defines "prompt detection".
Last Action
REFERRED TO RULES
8/20/2010