STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4588--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MCGOWAN, SLATER, K. BROWN, FLOOD, BENDETT, MANK-
          TELOW, E. BROWN, MAHER, GALLAHAN, DiPIETRO, BRABENEC,  JENSEN,  DURSO,
          J. A. GIGLIO,   GRAY,  McDONOUGH,  FITZPATRICK,  DeSTEFANO,  GANDOLFO,
          ANGELINO, LEMONDES, SMULLEN, HAWLEY, TAGUE, MIKULIN, BEEPHAN, JACKSON,
          CHANG -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  BYRNES  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, the environmental conserva-
          tion law and the highway law, in relation  to  renaming  the  Governor
          Mario M.  Cuomo bridge the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge

          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 356 of the public authorities law,
     2  as amended by section 6 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
     5  Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road,  thence  in  a  general
     6  northerly  and  westerly  direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
     7  south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The  Governor
     8  Mario  M.  Cuomo  Tappan  Zee  Bridge",  including  a highway connection
     9  between "The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan  Zee  Bridge"  and  the  New
    10  England  section  of the thruway presently known as interstate route two
    11  hundred eighty-seven, thence in a general westerly direction  to  inter-
    12  sect  with  existing route number seventeen or to a connection with that
    13  route, including a thruway connection from that portion of  the  section
    14  west  of  the  Hudson river, generally southerly to a point to be deter-
    15  mined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
    16    § 2. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
    17  by section 7 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended  to
    18  read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06255-03-3

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     1  § 13-0103. Marine and coastal district described.
     2    The marine and coastal district shall include the waters of the Atlan-
     3  tic  Ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all other
     4  tidal waters within the state, including the  Hudson  River  up  to  the
     5  Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge.
     6    §  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the environmental conserva-
     7  tion law, as amended by section 8 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of
     8  2017, is amended to read as follows:
     9    1. The department periodically shall examine all shellfish lands with-
    10  in the marine district and the Hudson River between the  Governor  Mario
    11  M.  Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge and the federal dam at Troy to ascertain the
    12  sanitary  condition  thereof  in accordance with regulations promulgated
    13  pursuant to section 13-0319 of this title.
    14    § 4. Section 342-ww of the highway law, as amended  by  section  9  of
    15  part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
    16    §  342-ww.  Portion  of the New York state thruway to be designated as
    17  the "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the  New
    18  York  state  thruway  in  the county of Rockland constituting interstate
    19  route 287 from the New Jersey border to "The  Governor  Mario  M.  Cuomo
    20  Tappan  Zee  Bridge"  shall  be  designated and known as the "Jewish War
    21  Veterans Memorial Highway".
    22    § 5. Subdivision 2 of section 349-a of the highway law, as amended  by
    23  section  10  of  part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
    24  read as follows:
    25    2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the  southern
    26  Westchester  connection  at  or  near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
    27  northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river  at  a  point
    28  south  of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The Governor
    29  Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge", thence in a general  westerly  direc-
    30  tion  to  intersect  with  existing  route  number  seventeen  or  to  a
    31  connection with that route, including a  thruway  connection  from  that
    32  portion  of the section west of the Hudson river, generally southerly to
    33  a point to be determined by the authority on  the  New  York-New  Jersey
    34  boundary line.
    35    §  6. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    36  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    37  as designated pursuant to this act.
    38    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.