S 9923 NY
Relates to the storage of road salt
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New York Senate Bill 9923 requires the Department of Transportation and every municipality, locality, and public authority that distributes road salt to construct a salt shed within ten years of the law's effective date. Salt sheds should maintain reasonable separation from streams, lakes, ponds, water wells, groundwater sources, surface waters, and aquifers to protect water resources. Salt sheds must be used year-round to prevent precipitation from mixing with stored salt or salt and sand mixtures, and the shed bases and covers must be impermeable. Shed covers must be secured against wind, remain closed except when necessary for salt transfer, and be sized to enclose the entire salt pile. The bill takes effect immediately.
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Official abstract
Directs the department of transportation and every municipality, locality and public authority that distributes road salt to construct a salt shed within ten years.
Sponsor (1)
- Jeremy Cooney Democratic · primary
Action history (2)
- Apr 16, 2026 REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION · upper
- May 19, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
Text versions (2)
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S09923 Summary: BILL NO S09923   SAME AS SAME AS A09564
  SPONSOR COONEY   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Add §23, Transp L   Directs the department of transportation and every municipality, locality and public authority that distributes road salt to construct a salt shed within ten years.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
9923
IN SENATE
April 16, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the storage of road salt
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section 2 23 to read as follows: 3 § 23. Storage of road salt. 1. For the protection of road salt, the 4 department and every municipality, locality, and authority that distrib- 5 utes road salt shall construct a salt shed within ten years of the 6 effective date of this section. 7 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "road salt" shall mean a 8 mineral form of sodium chloride to melt snow and ice on roads by lower- 9 ing water's freezing point. 10 3. Salt sheds should maintain a reasonable separation from streams, 11 lakes, ponds, private and public potable water wells, groundwater sourc- 12 es used for public water systems, surface waters of the state, primary 13 water supplies and principal/sole source aquifers. 14 4. Salt sheds shall be used year-round to prevent precipitation from 15 merging with stored salt or salt and sand mixture. 16 5. Salt storage shed bases and their covers, if applicable, shall be 17 impermeable. Covers shall be secured against the wind, always remain on 18 the pile and be of sufficient size to enclose the entire pile and only 19 be opened to the least needed dimensions necessary for transfer. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13871-02-5
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