The city of New Yorkwhich each year supplied hundreds of tons of Chilean salt, will no longer use it and will start using the domestic product. The project, approved last June by law, only needed the governor’s signature to enter into force.
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochullast Thursday he signed a law that will force the city to change the Chilean saltwhich they always use to melt the frozen snow in their streets for an American product, within the framework of a policy of enhancement of the national product.
The American Salt Purchase Act would require municipalities to New York buy domestic salt for road operations, whenever it is available and at a reasonable price compared to overseas salt. The legislation was introduced and promoted by legislators whose districts are close to the northern mines.
“With the Buy American Salt Act, we are helping state and local governments buy salt from mines located across the United States, some right here in New York. This is an important step in supporting good paying jobs in our Northern communities. As the economy grows New YorkHochul said.
“Although these mines offer well-paying jobs for workers, competition with foreign salt operations has recently hurt every mine,” the bill says.. “Stories of salt being mined in Egypt located in ports along the Hudson River have become commonplace. Even though our state and our country have operating salt mines here in the United States.”
No more Chilean salt in New York
The city has purchased more than 300,000 tons of each year Chilean salt to spread through its streets during the winter and avoid the accumulation of snow and ice. Most of the salt arriving in New York was by ship. Which were stored in the ports of the area, waiting to be distributed along the streets and avenues.
City sanitation manager Jessica Tisch argued that the law would mean more truck traffic. It is “too great a risk” to the supply chain for the city’s complicated operations in cold conditions. Today she praised the enactment of the legislation and, in particular, that it offers flexibility to purchase salt when needed.
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