New York S 7512: Requires heating oil sold for use in any building in the state to be bioheating fuel that contains minimum percentages of biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon diesel

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S07512 Summary:

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Amd §19-0327, En Con L

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Requires heating oil sold for use in any building in the state to be bioheating fuel that contains minimum percentages of biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon diesel.

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04/21/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7512

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 bioheating fuel requirements

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

 1 Section 1. Section 19-0327 of the environmental conservation law, as
 2 amended by chapter 750 of the laws of 2021, paragraph (b) of subdivision
 3 1 and subdivision 9 as amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2022, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 § 19-0327. Bioheating fuel requirements.
 6 (1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms
 7 shall have the following meanings:
 8 (a) "Biodiesel" shall mean a fuel, designated B100, that meets the
 9 requirements of the ASTM international specification D6751.
 10 (b) "Renewable Hydrocarbon Diesel" shall mean a North American-pro-
 11 duced fuel derived from vegetable oils, animal fats, and other renewable
 12 feedstocks that meet the requirements of ASTM international specifica-
 13 tion D975. Renewable hydrocarbon shall not include any fuel from co-pro-
 14 cessed biomass with a feedstock that is not biomass.
 15 (c) "Bioheating fuel" shall mean a fuel comprised of biodiesel blended
 16 with petroleum heating oil that meets the requirements of the ASTM
 17 international specification D396, a fuel comprised of domestically-pro-
 18 duced renewable hydrocarbon diesel with petroleum heating oil that meets
 19 the specifications of ASTM international specification D975, or other
 20 specifications as determined by the commissioner.
 21 (d) "Heating oil" shall mean petroleum oil refined for the purpose of
 22 use as fuel for combustion in a space and/or water heating system that
 23 meets the requirements of the [ATSM] ASTM international specification
 24 D396 or other specifications as determined by the commissioner.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11719-01-5

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 1 (e) "Feedstock" shall mean soybean oil, oil from annual cover crops,
 2 algal oil, biogenic waste oils, fats or greases, or non-food grade corn
 3 oil, provided that the commissioner may, by rules and regulations, modi-
 4 fy the definition of feedstock based on the vegetable oils, animal fats
 5 or cellulosic biomass listed in table 1 of 40 C.F.R. § 80.1426.
 6 (2) On and after July first, two thousand eighteen, all heating oil
 7 sold for use in any building within the counties of Nassau, Suffolk and
 8 Westchester shall be bioheating fuel that contains at least five percent
 9 biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon diesel.
 10 (3) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-two, all heating oil
 11 sold for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel
 12 that contains at least five percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocar-
 13 bon diesel.
 14 (4) On or after July first, two thousand twenty-five, all heating oil
 15 sold for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel
 16 that contains at least ten percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocar-
 17 bon diesel.
 18 (5) On or after July first, two thousand thirty, all heating oil sold
 19 for use in any building within the state shall be bioheating fuel that
 20 contains at least twenty percent biodiesel and/or renewable hydrocarbon
 21 diesel.
 22 (6) On or after July first, two thousand thirty-nine, all heating oil
 23 sold for us