Bill Text: NY A04989 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4989 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits marine solid waste transfer stations from being located near public housing projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A04989 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04989-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4989
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  marine solid waste transfer stations located in proximity
          to public housing projects in certain cases
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 27-0721 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-0721. Marine solid waste transfer station or facilities.
     4    Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of state or  local  law  or
     5  regulation,  neither  the department nor any local agency, department or
     6  authority shall issue a permit, regulation, or renew a permit or approve
     7  an application for the expansion, construction, relocation, reactivation
     8  or operation of a marine solid waste transfer station or facility  in  a
     9  city  with  a  population of one million or more, where any part of such
    10  station or facility is to be located within  eight  hundred  feet  of  a
    11  housing  project  as the term project is defined in subdivision fourteen
    12  of section three of the public housing law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09322-01-9