Bill Text: NY A06292 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - print number 6292b [A06292 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06292-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6292--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental  Conservation  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          directing the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the
          environmental radiation surveillance program

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  3-0301  of the environmental
     2  conservation law is amended by adding a new  paragraph  ii  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    ii. Provide freely and make publicly available on its website an annu-
     5  al report on radioactive releases or disposals, with respect to informa-
     6  tion  gathered  regarding  such  activities pursuant to 6 NYCRR 380.  In
     7  conjunction with the department of health, such report shall be analyzed
     8  to show trends and the cumulative impact of such radioactive releases or
     9  disposals; provided that other relevant agencies shall  be  notified  if
    10  contamination has exceeded standards for maximum allowable level permit-
    11  ted in drinking water or food sources, as prescribed by applicable state
    12  and federal law;
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06387-06-4