Bill Text: NY A01767 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation to undertake a review of the regulations governing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest scientific information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A01767 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01767-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1767 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to directing the department of environmental conservation to undertake a review of the regulations governing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest scientific information The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. The department shall undertake a review of the regulations govern- 4 ing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations, including siting 5 and expansion, to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest 6 scientific information regarding the impacts of such facilities on 7 vulnerable populations such as children and seniors, disadvantaged 8 communities, water, and the environment. On or before March thirty- 9 first, two thousand twenty-five, the department of environmental conser- 10 vation shall post a report containing the findings from such review on 11 its website. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04895-01-3
