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Senate Bill S1901

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes programs to encourage the removal and replacement of single-wall steel home heating oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose a threat to the environment

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2025-S1901 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6475
2019-2020: S1886
2021-2022: S5497
2023-2024: S4701

2025-S1901 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of environmental conservation and office of temporary and disability assistance to establish programs to encourage the removal and replacement of single-wall steel home heating oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose a threat to the environment.

2025-S1901 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1901 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1901
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to direct the department of environmental  conservation  and  the
   office of temporary and disability assistance to establish programs to
   encourage  the removal and replacement of single-wall steel home heat-
   ing oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose a threat  to
   the environment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The department of environmental conservation  shall  estab-
 lish  a  program to encourage the removal and replacement of single-wall
 steel home heating oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose
 a threat to the environment.
   § 2. (a) The commissioner of the department of environmental conserva-
 tion shall develop and promulgate regulations which shall  provide  that
 single-walled  home  heating oil tanks are phased out of use in New York
 state by January 1, 2029.
   (b) After January 1, 2029, home heating oil storage tanks  for  single
 family  residences which are removed and replaced shall be replaced only
 with double-bottom-wall steel tanks, double-wall steel tanks with  plas-
 tic liners, fiberglass tanks of both single and double wall construction
 or  with  such  other  storage tanks which are capable of preventing and
 containing oil spills,  including  those  having  secondary  containment
 capacity equal to or exceeding 110 percent of the primary storage capac-
 ity.
   §  3. The commissioner of the department of environmental conservation
 shall develop and promulgate regulations which shall provide  that  home
 heating oil storage tanks for newly constructed single family residences
 shall  be  double-bottom-wall  steel tanks, double-wall steel tanks with
 plastic liners, or such other tanks which are capable of preventing  and
 containing  oil  spills,  including  those  having secondary containment

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04619-01-5

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