Bill Text: NY A07417 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Decreases the distance from the high water mark certain lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be ceded to a county from one thousand feet to five hundred feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A07417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07417-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7417

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          decreasing the distance from the high water mark certain  lands  under
          water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays have to be to be ceded to a coun-
          ty

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 1, paragraph a of subdivision 4, and paragraph
     2  a of subdivision 8 of section 13-0302 of the environmental  conservation
     3  law,  subdivision 1 and paragraph a of subdivision 8 as amended by chap-
     4  ter 34 of the laws of 2022 and paragraph a of subdivision 4  as  amended
     5  by chapter 656 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
     6    1.  Underwater  lands ceded to county of Suffolk. All the right, title
     7  and interest in which the people of the state of New York have in and to
     8  the lands under water of Gardiner's and Peconic bays in  the  county  of
     9  Suffolk, except underwater lands within [one thousand] five hundred feet
    10  of  the high water mark is hereby ceded to such county, for the purposes
    11  of shellfish or seaweed cultivation, to be  managed  and  controlled  by
    12  such  county,  provided  that  such lands shall revert to the state when
    13  they shall cease to be used for shellfish or  seaweed  cultivation.  For
    14  the  purposes  of  this  section, the term "Gardiner's and Peconic bays"
    15  shall mean the waters of Gardiner's and Peconic bays and the tributaries
    16  thereof between the westerly shore of Great Peconic bay and an  easterly
    17  line  running  from the most easterly point of Plum island to Goff point
    18  at the entrance of Napeague harbor.
    19    a. Underwater lands within [one thousand] five  hundred  feet  of  the
    20  high water mark shall not be included in a shellfish cultivation zone.
    21    a.  Underwater  lands  within  [one thousand] five hundred feet of the
    22  high water mark shall not be included in a seaweed cultivation zone.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10446-01-3