Bill Text: NY A07316 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a traffic impact statement and public hearing on certain projects of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A07316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07316-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7316
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 21, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. TITONE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GUNTHER
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  acquiring  a
          traffic  impact  statement and public hearing for certain construction
          projects of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 559-a to read as follows:
     3    § 559-a. Traffic impact statement and public  hearing.    1.  Notwith-
     4  standing  any  other  law,  rule or regulation to the contrary, when the
     5  authority plans to complete a construction or  renovation  project  that
     6  shall  cost at least five million dollars and shall take at least thirty
     7  days to substantially complete, the  authority  shall  issue  a  traffic
     8  impact statement, and hold a public hearing in communities which will be
     9  impacted  by  the  project.    Before  such  public hearing is held, the
    10  authority shall publish all  traffic  mitigation  alternatives  and  the
    11  positive  or  adverse  impact  such  alternatives will have on potential
    12  delays of such construction project.
    13    2. The public hearing required by  subdivision  one  of  this  section
    14  shall:
    15    (a) provide for a public comment session;
    16    (b)  be held no less than thirty days before the construction or reno-
    17  vation project is put out to bid; and
    18    (c) shall be held before the traffic impact statement is issued.
    19    3. The authority shall not have to comply  with  the  requirements  of
    20  subdivision  one  of this section when, in the opinion of the authority,
    21  an emergency exists that requires an  immediate  construction  or  reno-
    22  vation project or there is an imminent threat to public safety.
    23    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    24  have become a law; provided, that,  the  chairman  of  the  metropolitan
    25  transportation  authority  is  immediately  authorized  and  directed to
    26  promulgate, amend and/or repeal any rules and regulations  necessary  to
    27  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11017-01-7