What's happening
This bill requires heating oil delivery companies to immediately clean up spills at residences.
Why it matters
Statewide coverage. Applies to petroleum spills during deliveries of home heating oil for residential use throughout New York.
Cleanup deadline. Companies must replace contaminated soil with new soil within 24 hours, adding a specific deadline for that work.
Additional fines. Delivery companies face $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for each additional offense, capped at $10,000. These fines supplement existing penalties without reducing existing liability.
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Who cares
Heating oil delivery companies
They would be responsible for immediate spill cleanup, soil replacement and fines for violations.
Residents receiving heating oil
Spills during deliveries to their residences would trigger immediate cleanup requirements.
Spill cleanup contractors
Soil replacement work for affected deliveries would have to meet a 24-hour deadline.
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Require Heating Oil Spill Cleanup
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Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3397
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to the removal of prohibited discharges
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 176 of the navigation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
9. Any discharge of petroleum occurring at a residence in the course of the delivery of home heating oil to such residence for residential use shall be immediately cleaned up by the oil delivery company. If the spill affects soil the clean up shall include replacing the affected soil with new soil, which shall be completed within twenty-four hours. Violation of this section shall result in a fine of five hundred dollars for the first offense and one thousand dollars for each additional offense, not to exceed ten thousand dollars payable by the oil delivery company. Such fine shall be in addition to any other penalty as provided for in this article. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be interpreted to diminish liability established in this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04671-01-9
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