Bill Text: NY A00050 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to time periods for state environmental quality review; establishes that all time periods shall be mandatory and are not subject to any period of extension unless the applicant or project sponsor agrees to a period of extension.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - print number 50a [A00050 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00050-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          50--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMANOWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the  Commit-
          tee  on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
          time period for state environmental quality review
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  8-0107 of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  added by chapter 612 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 8-0107. Agency implementation.
     4    All agencies shall review their present statutory authority,  adminis-
     5  trative regulations, and current policies and procedures for the purpose
     6  of  determining  whether  there  are any deficiencies or inconsistencies
     7  therein which prohibit full compliance with the purposes and  provisions
     8  of  this  article, and shall recommend or effect such measures as may be
     9  necessary to bring their authority and policies into conformity with the
    10  intent, purposes, and procedures set forth in this article.  They  shall
    11  carry  out  its  terms with minimum procedural and administrative delay,
    12  shall avoid unnecessary duplication of reporting and review requirements
    13  by providing, where feasible, for combined or consolidated  proceedings,
    14  and  shall expedite all proceedings hereunder in the interests of prompt
    15  review.  Time periods set forth in this article or established  pursuant
    16  to  regulation  shall  be mandatory and are not subject to any period of
    17  extension unless the applicant or project sponsor agrees to a period  of
    18  extension.
    19    § 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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