Relates to adding additional chemicals to the list of emerging contaminants; directs the commissioner of health to establish the first list within 30 days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7839
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
list of emerging contaminants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 1112 of the public
2 health law, as added by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of
3 2017, is amended and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
4 c. The commissioner shall, at a minimum, include the following chemi-
5 cals identified as emerging contaminants in the first list of emerging
6 contaminants: 1,2,3-trichloropropane; 1,3-butadiene; chloromethane
7 (methyl chloride); 1,1-dichloroethane; bromomethane (methyl bromide);
8 chlorodifluoromethene (HCFC-22); bromochloromethane (halon 1011);
9 1,4-dioxane; vanadium; molybdenum; cobalt; strontium; chromium; chromi-
10 um-6; chlorate; perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS); [and] perfluorooc-
11 tanoic acid (PFOA); perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA); perfluorohexanesulf-
12 onic acid (PFHxS); perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA); perfluorobutanesul-
13 fonic acid (PFBS); hexafluoropropylene oxide (HFPO); 2,3,3,3-tetraf-
14 luoro-2- (heptaflouropropoxy) propanoic acid; 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-
15 (heptafluoropropoxy) propanoate; heptafluoropropyl 1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-
16 ethyl ether; testosterone; and 4-androstene-3,17-dione.
17 13. The commissioner shall promulgate the first list of emerging
18 contaminants within thirty days of the effective date of this subdivi-
19 sion.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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