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Assembly Bill A5849

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits discharge of chlorine compounds into the waters of the state

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2011-A5849 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4321
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง17-0830, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A708, S4350

2011-A5849 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "chlorine zero discharge act"; prohibits the discharge of chlorine compounds into the navigable waters of the state by pulp and paper manufacturing concerns after 4 years; directs commissioner of environmental conservation to evaluate alternatives to use of organochlorines and to report to the governor and legislature.

2011-A5849 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5849

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  KAVANAGH, COLTON, COOK, JAFFEE, STEVENSON --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M.   of A. GOTTFRIED,  MAYERSOHN,  P. RIVERA  --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to elim-
  inating  certain  discharges  of chlorine compounds into state waters,
  and for other purposes

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act may be cited as the "chlorine zero
discharge act".
  S 2. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that:
  1. toxic substances that persist or bioaccumulate in the  environment,
build  to  higher  and  higher  concentration  over time, reaching their
greatest levels in the tissues  of  species  high  on  the  food  chain,
including humans;
  2.  toxic  substances that persist or bioaccumulate in the environment
are biologically active in infinitesimal quantities,  causing  reproduc-
tive   failure,   birth   defects,  developmental  impairment,  hormonal
disruption, behavioral disorders, immune suppression and cancer  at  low
doses,  and mixtures of these substances may cause these effects at even
lower doses;
  3. regulatory approaches  that  permit  even  limited  production  and
discharge  of  toxic  substances that persist or bioaccumulate result in
the accumulation of these substances in the environment and  food  chain
over  time  and  subsequent  damage  to  the  health of humans and other
species;
  4. the most favored method of preventing the  continued  contamination
of  the  environment from persistent or bioaccumulative toxic substances
is to phase out their production or use  over  time  and  replace  these
substances  or  the  processes  that  produce  them, or both, with safer
alternatives;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06670-01-1

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