Bill Text: NY A11042 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a school of public health within the state university of New York to conduct a comprehensive health impact assessment to examine potential public health impacts that could be caused by natural gas compressor stations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - reported referred to ways and means [A11042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11042-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11042
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 31, 2018
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Englebright)
          --  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conserva-
          tion
        AN ACT to require a health impact assessment for natural gas  compressor
          stations in New York
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. A school of public health within the  state  university  of
     2  New  York shall conduct a comprehensive health impact assessment follow-
     3  ing  a  model  recommended  by  the  centers  for  disease  control  and
     4  prevention  to  examine  potential  public  health impacts that could be
     5  caused by natural gas compressor stations. For the purposes of this act,
     6  health impact assessment shall mean a combination of  procedures,  meth-
     7  ods,  and  tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as
     8  to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distrib-
     9  ution of those effects within the population.
    10    § 2. Prior to the commencement  of  such  assessment,  the  school  of
    11  public  health  conducting such assessment shall prepare a scoping docu-
    12  ment that will establish the parameters of the health impact assessment.
    13  The scoping document shall include the analyses contained in  this  act,
    14  as  well  as  any other potential analyses to be conducted, and shall be
    15  subject to public review, comment and revision.
    16    § 3. Such health impact assessment of natural gas compressor  stations
    17  shall include, at a minimum, the following analyses:
    18    (a)  Identification and assessment of the magnitude, nature and extent
    19  of potential localized and statewide health impacts  utilizing  multiple
    20  methods  and  information  derived  from  a combination of public health
    21  tools including risk assessment, scientific literature,  and  population
    22  analysis;
    23    (b)   Identification   and  assessment  of  disparate  community-level
    24  impacts;
    25    (c) Estimated costs of any health impacts to the state, local  govern-
    26  ments,  health  insurers,  employers  and the state's public and private
    27  health care systems as a whole;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d) Recommendations for any mitigation of potential health impacts and
     2  the methods and evidence used to arrive at such recommendations; and
     3    (e) A long-term plan for monitoring, evaluating, tracking and mitigat-
     4  ing potential health impacts.
     5    §  4.  A  draft of such health impact assessment shall be released for
     6  public review and comment. The school of public health  conducting  such
     7  assessment  shall conduct a minimum of two public hearings regarding the
     8  findings of the draft health impact assessment and allow  at  least  one
     9  hundred eighty days for the public to submit comments.  Upon the closing
    10  of  the  public comment period, such school of public health shall cate-
    11  gorize, review and respond to all public comments. If substantive chang-
    12  es to the health impact assessment  are  made  as  a  result  of  public
    13  comments, such school of public health shall issue a revised draft. Such
    14  revised  draft  shall similarly be subject to public comment and review,
    15  in compliance with the parameters set out for the initial draft.
    16    § 5. After responding to all public comments as  required  by  section
    17  four  of  this act, and upon completion of the health impact assessment,
    18  such school of public health shall submit the  completed  health  impact
    19  assessment to the New York state department of health. The department of
    20  health  shall make such health impact assessment available to the public
    21  and deliver copies to the legislature and the governor for review.
    22    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.