Bill Text: NY A03210 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts contractors employed by the city of Buffalo from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to labor [A03210 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03210-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3210
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  exempting  contractors
         employed  by  the  city  of  Buffalo  from payment of asbestos project
         notification fees for demolitions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 904 of the labor law, as amended
    2  by section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    2. Any contractor engaged in an asbestos project involving  more  than
    5  two hundred sixty linear feet or more than one hundred sixty square feet
    6  of  asbestos  or  asbestos materials shall notify both the United States
    7  Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Air and  Hazardous  Material
    8  Division and the commissioner in writing ten days prior to the commence-
    9  ment of work on the project or, if emergency conditions make it impossi-
   10  ble to provide ten days prior notice, as soon as practicable after iden-
   11  tification  of the project. The notice to the commissioner shall include
   12  the following information:  the  name,  address  and  asbestos  handling
   13  license number of the contractor working on the project; the address and
   14  description  of  the building or area, including size, age and prior use
   15  of the building or area; the amount of friable asbestos material present
   16  in square feet and/or  linear  feet,  if  applicable;  room  designation
   17  numbers or other local information where such asbestos material is found
   18  unless such material is found throughout the entire structure; the sche-
   19  duled  starting  and  completion  dates  for removal; the procedures and
   20  equipment, including ventilating systems  that  will  be  employed;  any
   21  additional  information  which the commissioner may require; and, EXCEPT
   22  FOR CONTRACTORS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY OF BUFFALO TO ENGAGE IN SUCH ASBES-
   23  TOS PROJECTS, shall be accompanied by  a  project  notification  fee  as
   24  follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01578-01-5
       A. 3210                             2
    1                 Project Size/Linear Feet                Fee
    2                      260-429                            $200
    3                      430-824                             400
    4                      825-1649                          1,000
    5                      1650 or more                      2,000
    6                 Project Size/Square Feet                Fee
    7                      160-259                            $200
    8                      260-499                             400
    9                      500-999                           1,000
   10                      1000 or more                      2,000
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.