Bill Text: NY A03320 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor [A03320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03320-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3320
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  exempting  contractors
          employed  by municipalities from payment of asbestos project notifica-
          tion 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 a municipality to engage  in  such  asbestos
    23  projects, shall be accompanied by a project notification fee as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04319-01-7
        A. 3320                             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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.