New York A 4981: Relates to advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities

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A04981 Summary:

BILL NOA04981 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06371

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSRPheffer Amato

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§27-0303, 27-0701 & 27-0707, En Con L

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Relates to advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities.

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BILL NOA04981 

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02/10/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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Go to topA04981 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4981

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 7 of section 27-0303 of the environ-
 2 mental conservation law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 671 of the
 3 laws of 1986, and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 592 of the laws of
 4 1981, are amended to read as follows:
 5 1. "Disposal" means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection,
 6 dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such
 7 substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment.
 8 Disposal also means the thermal destruction of waste or hazardous waste
 9 and the burning of such wastes as fuel for the purpose of recovering
 10 useable energy, but does not include post-use polymers and recovered
 11 feedstocks converted at an advanced recycling facility or held at such a
 12 facility prior to conversion through an advanced recycling process, as
 13 such terms are defined pursuant to section 27-0701 of this article.
 14 7. "Waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment
 15 plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility,
 16 and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or
 17 contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining
 18 and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not
 19 include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage[,]; or solid or
 20 dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges
 21 which are point sources subject to permits under article 17 of this
 22 chapter[,]; or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined
 23 in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as
 24 may be provided by existing agreements between the state and the federal
 25 government; or post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks converted at

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09041-01-5

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 1 an advanced recycling facility as such terms are defined pursuant to
 2 section 27-0701 of this article, or held at such facility prior to
 3 conversion.
 4 § 2. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 27-0701 of the environmental
 5 conservation law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 425 of the laws of
 6 1977, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 253 of the laws of 1988,
 7 subdivision 3 as added by chapter 399 of the laws of 1973 and such
 8 section as renumbered by chapter 425 of the laws of 1977, are amended
 9 and eleven new subdivisions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are
 10 added to read as follows:
 11 1. "Solid waste" means all putrescible and non-putrescible materials
 12 or substances discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless
 13 or in excess to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection,
 14 [except] including but not limited to garbage, refuse, industrial and
 15 commercial waste, sludges from air or water control facilities, rubbish,
 16 ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, demolition and
 17 construction debris, discarded automobiles and offal but not including
 18 sewage and other highly diluted water carried materials or substances
 19 [and], those in gaseous form, and post-use polymers and recovered feeds-
 20 tocks