N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-2119: Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring

§ 27-2119. Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring.

1. Commencing a year after the calendar year in which this section

takes effect, no public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school

shall install a mercury-containing floor nor shall any school install a

floor over a mercury-containing floor prior to removal of the

mercury-containing floor.

2. The time weighted average mercury vapor exposure for an employee or

student of a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall

not exceed 750 ng/m (3).

3. For purposes of this section:

(a) "mercury-containing floor" shall mean a floor containing

phenyl-mercuric-acetate catalyst.

(b) "time weighted average" shall mean an employee's average airborne

exposure in an eight-hour work shift of a forty-hour work week or for a

person under the age of eighteen shall mean sixteen hours or less per

week averaged over the school year.