Bill Text: NY A07713 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a moratorium on the building or placing of any permanent or semi-permanent wind turbines in certain areas within the jurisdiction and control of New York State including the waters of Lake Erie or Lake Ontario.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A07713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07713-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7713

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 6, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          establishing  a moratorium on the building or placing of any permanent
          or semi-permanent wind turbines in certain areas within the  jurisdic-
          tion  and  control  of New York state; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 13-0107 to read as follows:
     3  § 13-0107. Moratorium on building or placing wind turbines.
     4    1. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, there  is
     5  hereby  established  a  moratorium  upon  the building or placing of any
     6  permanent or semi-permanent wind turbine in the waters of Lake  Erie  or
     7  Lake  Ontario  located  within the state and within the jurisdiction and
     8  control of the state.
     9    (b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to  the  contrary,  there  is
    10  hereby  established  a  moratorium  upon  the building or placing of any
    11  infrastructure used  to  support  a  permanent  or  semi-permanent  wind
    12  turbine located within the jurisdiction and control of the state.
    13    2.  This  section shall be subject to any applicable provisions of the
    14  state environmental quality  review  act,  article  ten  of  the  public
    15  service law, and any local zoning or permitting laws or ordinances.
    16    §  2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2024 and shall expire and be
    17  deemed repealed July 1, 2034.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11705-01-3