Bill Text: NY A01523 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the storage or pumping of water into the Lloyd Sands area of Long Island where chloride contamination does not result from seawater intrusion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A01523 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A01523-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1523
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the storage or pumping of water into the Lloyd Sands area
of Long Island
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 15-1528 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. THE MORATORIUM PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION SHALL ALSO INCLUDE A
4 PROHIBITION ON:
5 (A) THE GRANTING OF ANY NEW PERMITS TO DRILL ANY PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY,
6 PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY OR INDUSTRIAL WELLS IN ANY COASTAL COMMUNITY WHERE
7 CHLORIDE CONTAMINATION DOES NOT RESULT FROM SEAWATER INTRUSION; AND
8 (B) THE GRANTING OF ANY EXEMPTION PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS
9 SECTION UNTIL THE COMMISSIONER HAS COMPLETED SUFFICIENT RESEARCH NECES-
10 SARY TO ISSUE A DIRECTIVE TO LIFT SUCH MORATORIUM PURSUANT TO SUBDIVI-
11 SION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06009-01-5
