Bill Text: NY A03021 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Adds the Chenango river to the definition of inland waterways as a major river.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-26 - signed chap.43 [A03021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03021-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3021
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 24, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO, CROUCH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  adding  the  Chenango
          river to the definition of inland waterways
          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 911 of the executive law, as sepa-
     2  rately amended by chapters 113 and 216 of the laws  of  2016,  paragraph
     3  (a) as separately amended by chapters 113, 193, 196, and 216 of the laws
     4  of  2016,  and paragraph (c) as separately amended by chapters 113, 126,
     5  154, 157, 175, 176, 214, 216, 217, and 227  of  the  laws  of  2016,  is
     6  amended to read as follows:
     7    4.  "Inland  waterways"  shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
     8  consisting of lakes Ballston, Big Tupper, Black,  Campfire,  Canadarago,
     9  Canandaigua,  Cayuga,  Champlain, Charles, Chateaugay, Chautauqua, Cone-
    10  sus, Cranberry, Echo (in the county of Westchester),  George,  Glencoma,
    11  Great  Sacandaga,  Honeoye, Indian, Keuka, Little Wolf (in the county of
    12  Franklin), Lincolndale, Long, Lost (in the county  of  Putnam),  Mirror,
    13  MacGregor,  Mahopac,  Oneida,  Onondaga,  Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Peach,
    14  Placid, Putnam,  Raquette,  Ronkonkoma,  Sacandaga,  Saratoga,  Schroon,
    15  Secor,  Seneca,  Shenorock,  Skaneateles, Silver (in the county of Wyom-
    16  ing), Saranac and Tonetta, Teakettle Spout  and  Wixon,  Simon  (in  the
    17  county of Franklin) and the Fulton chain of lakes; (b) the state's major
    18  rivers  comprised  of the Allegheny, Ausable, Battenkill, Black, Boquet,
    19  Bronx, Canisteo, Chaumont (including Chaumont bay),  Chemung,  Chenango,
    20  Cohocton,  Delaware,  Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Great Chazy, Hoosic, Hudson
    21  north of the federal dam at Troy,  Indian,  Little  (in  the  Adirondack
    22  park),  Little Ausable, Little Salmon (including north and south branch-
    23  es), Mad, Mettowee, Mohawk, Oswegatchie, Pocantico, Racquette,  Sacanda-
    24  ga, Salmon, Saranac, Saw Mill, Schroon, Susquehanna, Tioga, Tioughnioga,
    25  Wallkill  and  Buffalo  rivers, and the north and middle branches of the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07001-02-7

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     1  Moose river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek
     2  located in Erie county, Bash Bish located  in  Columbia  county,  Basher
     3  Kill,  Bushkill,  Cattaraugus,  Cincinnati, East Kill, Esopus (including
     4  upper  and  lower  branches),  Fish  (including east and west branches),
     5  Gooseberry, Little Sandy, Onondaga, Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout, Sandy,
     6  Schoharie, Shawangunk Kill, South Sandy, Oatka,  Tonawanda,  West  Kill,
     7  Scajaquada, Wappinger, Black Creek located in Monroe county, Black Creek
     8  located  in Genesee and Wyoming counties, Ellicott Creek located in Erie
     9  county and Wynantskill, Claverack, Taghkanic and  Agawamuck  and  Wyoma-
    10  nock;  (d) the Barge Canal System as defined in section two of the canal
    11  law; and (e) the adjacent shorelands to  the  extent  that  such  inland
    12  waters  and adjacent lands are strongly influenced by each other includ-
    13  ing, but not limited to,  islands,  wetlands,  beaches,  dunes,  barrier
    14  islands, cliffs, bluffs and erosion prone areas.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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