Bill Text: NY A01358 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mandates NYC Transit Authority to produce annual reports concerning actions to reduce noise.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2014-12-17 - tabled [A01358 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A01358-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1358
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations,
Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to mandating the
NYC transit authority to create annual reports concerning actions to
reduce noise
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1204-a of the public authorities
2 law, as added by chapter 736 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. [Within twelve months of the completion of the study conducted
5 pursuant to subdivision two of this section, and at twelve month inter-
6 vals thereafter, the] THE authority shall submit to the governor and the
7 legislature [comprehensive] ANNUAL reports detailing the authority's
8 progress to date in abating subway noise. The report shall include, but
9 not be limited to an itemized summary of all monies spent, bids
10 requested and received, contracts let, and actual work done on noise
11 abatement programs during the previous period. Any and all subway noise
12 measurements made during the previous period shall be included, with,
13 whenever possible, analyses of such measurements.
14 Such ANNUAL report shall also include a detailed analysis of all
15 FUTURE noise abatement activities planned for the [next] UPCOMING twelve
16 months. [Following the first twelve month interval these] THESE reports
17 shall also include comprehensive statements of progress made on all
18 planned noise abatement activities included in the previous annual
19 report.
20 Nothing herein shall preclude such report from being incorporated in
21 the authority's annual capital report submitted pursuant to the "capital
22 financing and services system act of nineteen hundred eighty-one," so
23 long as it is maintained as a separate, distinct and identifiable compo-
24 nent in such report.
25 S 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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