Bill Text: NY A05550 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the Montauk Point shoals as an important bird area; directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to designate such area as part of the New York state bird conservation area program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A05550 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05550-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5550

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          designating the Montauk Point shoals area as an  important  bird  area
          and making such area part of the New York state bird conservation area
          program

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

     1    Section 1. Section 11-2001 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  a.  The Montauk Point shoals area of the county of Suffolk, having
     4  met the criteria  of  subdivision  three  of  this  section,  is  hereby
     5  declared  to be an important bird area and the commissioner shall desig-
     6  nate such area as part of the New  York  state  bird  conservation  area
     7  program.
     8    b.  For  the purposes of this title, "Montauk Point shoals area" means
     9  those marine and coastal areas off the shore of Montauk  Point,  in  the
    10  county  of  Suffolk, extending to the coastal waters within a sixty foot
    11  bathymetric contour that encompasses the area  beginning  just  west  of
    12  Shagwong  Point  on the northern shore of Montauk Point, continuing east
    13  around Montauk Point, and terminating just east of Ditch Plains  on  the
    14  Atlantic  Ocean  side  of Montauk Point.  Such area consisting of waters
    15  that are sixty or less feet in depth, and within between three and  one-
    16  half  to four miles from the shoreline.  Provided, that the commissioner
    17  shall be authorized to change the boundaries of such area, by  rule,  as
    18  he or she shall deem necessary.
    19    c.  That  portion of the New York state bird conservation area program
    20  designated pursuant to this subdivision shall be known as  the  "Montauk
    21  Point shoals bird conservation area".
    22    d.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be deemed to impose new fishing
    23  restrictions.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06749-01-3