Bill Text: NY A05813 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Decreases the setback requirement in the Peconic and Gardiner's Bays for the Suffolk County Lease Program and Sugar Kelp production from 1,000 feet to 500 feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A05813 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05813-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5813

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        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 the
          setback requirement in the Peconic and Gardiner's Bays for the Suffolk
          County Lease Program and Sugar Kelp

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 4 of section 13-0302 of the
     2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 656 of the laws of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. Underwater lands within [one thousand] five  hundred  feet  of  the
     5  high water mark shall not be included in a shellfish cultivation zone.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10217-01-3