Bill Text: NY A04902 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes from reporting requirements relating to environmental quality reviews actions to approve the siting or construction of housing in cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04902-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4902

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  NOVAKHOV,  BROOK-KRASNY, FITZPATRICK, CHANG,
          PIROZZOLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental
          Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          certain actions being excluded from reporting requirements relating to
          environmental quality reviews

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 8-0111
     2  of the environmental conservation  law,  paragraph  (b)  as  amended  by
     3  section  1  of  part BBB of chapter 55 of the laws of 2021 and paragraph
     4  (c) as amended by chapter 617 of the laws of 1987, are amended and a new
     5  paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:
     6    (b) Actions subject to the provisions requiring a certificate of envi-
     7  ronmental compatibility and public need in articles seven, ten  and  the
     8  former  article  eight  of  the public service law or requiring a siting
     9  permit under section ninety-four-c of the executive law; [or]
    10    (c) Actions subject to the class A or class B regional project  juris-
    11  diction  of the Adirondack park agency or a local government pursuant to
    12  section eight hundred seven, eight hundred eight or eight  hundred  nine
    13  of the executive law, except class B regional projects subject to review
    14  by local government pursuant to section eight hundred seven of the exec-
    15  utive  law located within the Lake George park as defined by subdivision
    16  one of section 43-0103 of this chapter[.]; or
    17    (d) Actions to approve the siting or construction of housing in cities
    18  with a population of one million or more.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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