Bill Text: NY A05605 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5605 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to local solid waste management plans; requires such plans to include methods to increase waste diversion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-02 - signed chap.551 [A05605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05605-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5605

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, REYES, OTIS -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
          solid waste management plans

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section 27-0107 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chap-
     3  ter 70 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  characterize the solid waste stream to be managed in the planning
     5  period and methods to increase waste diversion including, but not limit-
     6  ed to recycling and composting;
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  local
     8  solid waste management plans issued on or after such date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09846-01-1