Bill Text: NY A09286 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Adds the Allegheny river and Cattaraugus creek to the definition of "inland waterways" for purposes of waterfront revitalization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-18 - signed chap.133 [A09286 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09286-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9286--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Environmental  Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding certain  bodies
         of  water  to  the  definition  of  "inland waterways" for purposes of
         water-front revitalization
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  911 of the executive law, as
    2  amended by chapter 166 of the laws of 2011, paragraph (b) as  separately
    3  amended  by  chapter  348  of  the  laws  of 2011, is amended to read as
    4  follows:
    5    4. "Inland waterways" shall mean (a) the state's  major  inland  lakes
    6  consisting  of  lakes Big Tupper, Black, Canandaigua, Cayuga, Champlain,
    7  Chautauqua, Conesus, Cranberry, George, Great Sacandaga, Honoeye,  Indi-
    8  an, Keuka, Long, Mirror, Oneida, Onondaga, Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Plac-
    9  id,  Raquette, Ronkonkoma, Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon, Seneca, Skanea-
   10  teles, Silver (in the county of Wyoming) and  Saranac,  and  the  Fulton
   11  chain of lakes; (b) the state's major rivers comprised of the ALLEGHENY,
   12  Ausable,  Black,  Boquet,  Canisteo,  Chaumont (including Chaumont bay),
   13  Chemung, Cohocton, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Hudson north of  the
   14  federal  dam  at  Troy,  Indian, Little (in the Adirondack park), Little
   15  Salmon (including north and  south  branches),  Mad,  Mettowee,  Mohawk,
   16  Oswegatchie,  Racquette, Sacandaga, Salmon, Saranac, Susquehanna, Tioga,
   17  Tioughnioga and Wallkill rivers, and the north and  middle  branches  of
   18  the Moose river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the Bushkill,
   19  CATTARAUGUS,  Cincinnati,  East  Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower
   20  branches), Fish (including east and west branches),  Gooseberry,  Little
   21  Sandy,  Onondaga, Sandy, Schoharie, South Sandy, Oatka and Tonawanda and
   22  West Kill; (d) the Barge Canal System as defined in section two  of  the
   23  canal  law;  and  (e)  the  adjacent  shorelands to the extent that such
   24  inland waters and adjacent lands are strongly influenced by  each  other
   25  including, but not limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes, barri-
   26  er islands, cliffs, bluffs and erosion prone areas.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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