Bill Text: NY A09459 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a minimum 10 foot buffer from the water table for all mining plans for mining on Long Island.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-07 - referred to environmental conservation [A09459 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09459-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9459

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          certain mined land-use plans

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1 of section 23-2713 of the
     2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 166 of the laws of
     3  1991, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) The mining plan shall consist of a written and graphic description
     5  of the proposed mining operation, including the boundaries of  the  land
     6  controlled  by  the applicant, the outline of potential affected acreage
     7  and the general sequence of areas to be mined through successive  permit
     8  terms.  The  graphic  description shall include the location of the mine
     9  and shall identify the land affected by mining after April first,  nine-
    10  teen  hundred  seventy-five, including but not limited to areas of exca-
    11  vation; areas of overburden, tailings, and spoil; areas of  topsoil  and
    12  mineral  stock  piles; processing plant areas; haulageways; shipping and
    13  storage areas; drainage features and  water  impoundments.  The  written
    14  description  of the plan shall include the applicant's mining method and
    15  measures to be taken to minimize adverse environmental impacts resulting
    16  from the mining operation. Within counties  with  a  population  of  one
    17  million  or more which draw their primary source of drinking water for a
    18  majority of county residents from a designated sole source  aquifer,  no
    19  mining plan shall be approved or renewed unless such plan provides for a
    20  minimum buffer of undisturbed ground at least ten feet from the existing
    21  water table at the mine site.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14389-02-2