Bill Text: NY A09492 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation to create a report outlining a plan to hydraulically contain and remediate the Navy Grumman plume emanating of contaminants and chemicals in the underground aquifer and drinking water of the southeastern portion of Nassau county.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-29 - signed chap.543 [A09492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09492-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9492
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 2, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. SALADINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Environmental Conservation
       AN  ACT in relation to directing the department of environmental conser-
         vation to issue a report outlining a plan to hydraulically contain and
         remediate the Navy Grumman plume emanating of contaminants and  chemi-
         cals in the underground aquifer and drinking water of the southeastern
         portion of Nassau county
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The New York state department of environmental conservation
    2  shall create and deliver to the state legislature a report detailing the
    3  options of intercepting and remediating a groundwater plume  of  contam-
    4  inants,  including  but  not  limited to PCE and TCE, emanating from the
    5  former Naval Weapons Industrial Plant operated by the United States Navy
    6  and the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation facilities in Bethpage,
    7  town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
    8    S 2. This report must focus on the utilization of  hydraulic  contain-
    9  ment  and state of the art remediation practices to remove these contam-
   10  inants without utilizing well head treatment, which is a measure of last
   11  resort only. It must focus on how to accomplish this goal  in  a  timely
   12  manner  so  as to stop the migration of the Navy Grumman plume before it
   13  reaches the public water supply wells of the Massapequa  water  district
   14  and  the South Farmingdale water district as well as the New York Ameri-
   15  can Water Corporation wells. It must be designed  to  also  protect  the
   16  natural  resources,  specifically  the  fresh water bodies, tributaries,
   17  wetlands and the salt water natural resources of  the  Great  South  Bay
   18  from these contaminants.
   19    S 3. This report shall estimate the cost, scope, and timetable of such
   20  a  project  and  how the department of environmental conservation would,
   21  along with enlisting the assistance of the New York State department  of
   22  Law  and  the  United  States Department of Justice, enforce the law and
   23  cause the United States Navy to pay for or reimburse the  costs  associ-
   24  ated with this project.
   25    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14913-01-4