Bill Text: NY A08865 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires approval by the governing board of a municipality for mining activity in any area which is zoned residential by such municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A08865 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08865-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8865

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 18, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          requiring municipal approval of mining in residential neighborhoods

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  23-2711 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. After September first, two thousand twenty, any person who  mines
     4  or proposes to mine from a mine site in an area zoned residential by the
     5  municipality  in  which  the  mine  is  located shall not engage in such
     6  mining unless such person has obtained approval of such mining from  the
     7  governing board of such municipality.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14272-01-9