What's happening
This bill allows reimbursement from the waste tire management fund to cover costs from petroleum contamination caused by waste tire fires.
Why it matters
Expands financial resources for environmental cleanup. By allowing the waste tire management fund to reimburse for petroleum contamination from tire fires, this bill ensures more funding is available to address the aftermath of such environmental disasters, potentially speeding up response and remediation efforts.
Protects public health and local environments. Petroleum contamination from waste tire fires poses significant health and ecological risks. This bill enables better cleanup and compensation for damages, reducing long-term impacts on affected communities and ecosystems.
Reduces strain on other state funds. By specifying that the waste tire fund can cover these petroleum-related costs, the bill helps prevent depletion of the broader Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund, preserving it for other incidents and emergencies.
Signals recognition of waste tire fire risks. Including tire fire-related petroleum contamination as a reimbursable expense highlights the legislative recognition of the frequency and severity of these events, encouraging proactive management and potentially better prevention strategies in the future.
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Who cares
Department of Audit and Control
The bill would allow waste tire fee funds to reimburse its environmental protection and spill compensation fund for petroleum cleanup, paid damage claims and other remediation costs resulting from waste tire fires.
Department of Environmental Conservation
The bill would require the department to cooperate with Audit and Control on the spill compensation fund as part of waste tire management efforts.
People with damage claims from waste tire fires
The bill would make waste tire fee funds available to reimburse the spill compensation fund for claims it has paid, rather than create a new claims benefit.
Headline styles
Pay Back Spill Cleanup Costs
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Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Fund Spill Cleanups
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Tony Avella
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4352
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the reimbursement of costs to the New York environmental protection and spill compensation fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 27-1903 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 3 of part V1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
2. State government must make an essential contribution to the development and implementation of environmentally, economically and technically viable waste tire management programs. The department shall cooperate with other state agencies, including the department of audit and control with regard to the environmental protection and spill compensation fund as established pursuant to article twelve of the navigation law, the department of economic development, the New York state energy research and development authority, the department of transportation, the New York state thruway authority and the department of health, to ensure that waste tires are effectively managed and used in environmentally acceptable ways consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
§ 2. Section 27-1915 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 3 of part V1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, the opening paragraph and subdivision 1 as amended by section 5 of part DD of chapter 59 of the laws of 2010, subdivision 6 as amended by section 3 of part T of chapter 58 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: § 27-1915. Use of waste tire management and recycling fee funds.
Waste tire management and recycling fees shall be deposited in the waste management and cleanup fund established in section ninety-two-bb
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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of the state finance law, and shall be made available for the following purposes:
1. costs of the department for the following:
(a) first-year costs:
(i) enumeration and assessment of noncompliant waste tire stockpiles; and
(ii) aerial reconnaissance to locate, survey and characterize sites environmentally, for remote sensing, special analysis and scanning;
(b) abatement of noncompliant waste tire stockpiles; and
(c) administration and enforcement of the requirements of this article, exclusive of titles thirteen and fourteen.
2. reimbursement of costs of the New York environmental protection and spill compensation fund in the department of audit and control, pursuant to article twelve of the navigation law, for the following:
(a) cleanup and removal of petroleum contamination resulting from any waste tire fire;
(b) any damage claim paid by the New York environmental protection and spill compensation fund as a result of any waste tire fire; and
(c) all other direct or indirect costs related to the remediation of petroleum contamination resulting from any waste tire fire.
3. costs of the department of economic development for the following:
(a) conducting an updated market analysis of outlets for waste tire utilization including recycling and energy recovery opportunities;
(b) establishment of a program to provide funds to businesses to develop technology that leads to increased markets for waste tires;
(c) funding of demonstration projects; and
(d) administration of requirements of this section.
[3.] 4. costs of the department of transportation for the following:
(a) funding of demonstration and other projects for road base, paving and other civil engineering uses; and
(b) administration of requirements of this section.
[4.] 5. costs of the New York state thruway authority for the following:
(a) funding of demonstration and other projects for road base, paving and other civil engineering uses; and
(b) administration of requirements of this section.
[5.] 6. costs of the New York state energy research and development authority for the following:
(a) funding research projects which will enhance sustainable waste tire recycling activities; and
(b) administration of requirements of this section.
[6.] 7. costs of the department of health for the following:
(a) recommendations to protect public health;
(b) administration of requirements of this section; and
(c) prevention or control of on-site populations of vectors, as defined in subdivision ten of section 27-2301 of this article, using techniques appropriate for protection of human health and the environment to prevent the site from being a vector breeding area.
Any funds not used for a given year shall be returned to the fund and be added to the total funds available for disbursement in the succeeding year.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after May 15, 2003.
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