Bill Text: NY A10001 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation, in consultation with the environmental justice interagency coordinating council and the climate justice working group, to conduct a study on the impacts of the urban heat island effect on disadvantaged communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-23 - signed chap.563 [A10001 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10001-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10001--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2022
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT in relation to directing the department of environmental  conser-
          vation in conjunction with the environmental justice interagency coor-
          dinating  council  and  the climate justice working group to conduct a
          study on the impacts of urban island effect on disadvantaged  communi-
          ties

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

     1    Section 1. The department of environmental conservation, in  consulta-
     2  tion with the environmental justice interagency coordinating council and
     3  the  climate justice working group, shall conduct a study on the impacts
     4  of the urban heat island effect on disadvantaged communities. The  study
     5  shall  at  a  minimum,  identify  urban  disadvantaged  communities with
     6  concentrations of heat islands, include recommendations on how to  iden-
     7  tify,  prevent and address adverse health and environmental impacts from
     8  urban heat island effects, and include existing or  recommended  funding
     9  available to address such impacts.
    10    § 2. For the purposes of this study:
    11    (a)  "Disadvantaged communities" shall mean communities that are iden-
    12  tified pursuant to section 75-0111  of  the  environmental  conservation
    13  law.
    14    (b)  "Urban heat island effect" means the phenomenon when pavement and
    15  other infrastructure absorbs and stores large quantities of solar  radi-
    16  ation during the day and releases it during the nighttime, leading to an
    17  increase in the surface temperatures of the immediate area.
    18    (c)  "Heat  islands"  means  urbanized  areas  that  experience higher
    19  temperatures than outlying areas due to structures  such  as  buildings,
    20  roads,  and other infrastructure absorbing and reemitting the sun's heat
    21  more than natural landscapes such as forests  and  water  bodies.  Urban
    22  areas,  where  these  structures are highly concentrated and greenery is

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  limited, become "islands" of higher temperatures  relative  to  outlying
     2  areas.
     3    § 3. The department of environmental conservation shall deliver to the
     4  governor,  the  legislature, and post on its public website, a report of
     5  its findings no later than eighteen months after the effective  date  of
     6  this act.
     7    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.