Bill Text: NY A08906 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts contractors employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-28 - referred to labor [A08906 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08906-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8906
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 28, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  exempting  contractors
         employed  by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notifica-
         tion fees for demolitions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 904 of the labor law, as amended
    2  by section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    2. Any contractor engaged in an asbestos project involving  more  than
    5  two hundred sixty linear feet or more than one hundred sixty square feet
    6  of  asbestos  or  asbestos materials shall notify both the United States
    7  Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Air and  Hazardous  Material
    8  Division and the commissioner in writing ten days prior to the commence-
    9  ment of work on the project or, if emergency conditions make it impossi-
   10  ble to provide ten days prior notice, as soon as practicable after iden-
   11  tification  of the project. The notice to the commissioner shall include
   12  the following information:  the  name,  address  and  asbestos  handling
   13  license number of the contractor working on the project; the address and
   14  description  of  the building or area, including size, age and prior use
   15  of the building or area; the amount of friable asbestos material present
   16  in square feet and/or  linear  feet,  if  applicable;  room  designation
   17  numbers or other local information where such asbestos material is found
   18  unless such material is found throughout the entire structure; the sche-
   19  duled  starting  and  completion  dates  for removal; the procedures and
   20  equipment, including ventilating systems  that  will  be  employed;  any
   21  additional  information  which the commissioner may require; and, EXCEPT
   22  FOR CONTRACTORS EMPLOYED BY A MUNICIPALITY TO ENGAGE  IN  SUCH  ASBESTOS
   23  PROJECTS, shall be accompanied by a project notification fee as follows:
   24                 Project Size/Linear Feet                Fee
   25                      260-429                            $200
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05422-01-3
       A. 8906                             2
    1                      430-824                             400
    2                      825-1649                          1,000
    3                      1650 or more                      2,000
    4                 Project Size/Square Feet                Fee
    5                      160-259                            $200
    6                      260-499                             400
    7                      500-999                           1,000
    8                      1000 or more                      2,000
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.