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Assembly Bill A8317

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale or land application of biosolids from wastewater treatment facilities

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2023-A8317 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§27-0701 & 27-0703, En Con L

2023-A8317 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale or land application of biosolids from wastewater treatment facilities unless such biosolids are treated and tested to not exceed the maximum contaminant levels established in the public health law.

2023-A8317 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8317
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   prohibiting the sale or land application of biosolids from  wastewater
   treatment facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 27-0701 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding two new subdivisions 5 and 6 to read as follows:
   5.  "BIOSOLIDS"  MEANS  THE RESIDUAL SOLIDS OR SLUDGE GENERATED DURING
 THE TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER AT A  SOLID  WASTE  MANAGEMENT  FACILITY  OR
 WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY.
   6.  "WASTEWATER  TREATMENT  FACILITY"  MEANS  ANY FACILITY THAT TREATS
 WASTEWATER, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO  MUNICIPAL  SEWAGE  TREATMENT
 PLANTS,  INDUSTRIAL  WASTEWATER  TREATMENT PLANTS, AND SEPTAGE TREATMENT
 FACILITIES.
   § 2. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
 by adding two new subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
   7. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT ANY PERSON FROM SELLING, OFFERING FOR
 SALE,  APPLYING, OR OFFERING TO APPLY BIOSOLIDS, OR COMPOST DERIVED FROM
 BIOSOLIDS, FROM A WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THE
 APPLICATION  TO AGRICULTURAL, RESIDENTIAL, OR COMMERCIAL LANDS EXCEPT AS
 PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF THIS SECTION.
   8. THE SELLING, OFFERING FOR SALE,  APPLYING,  OR  OFFERING  TO  APPLY
 BIOSOLIDS,  OR  COMPOST DERIVED FROM BIOSOLIDS, FROM A WASTEWATER TREAT-
 MENT FACILITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURAL, RESI-
 DENTIAL, OR COMMERCIAL LANDS SHALL ONLY BE ALLOWED IF  THE  BIOSOLID  IS
 TREATED  AND  TESTED TO NOT EXCEED THE MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS ESTAB-
 LISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED TWELVE OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH
 LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13307-03-3

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