Bill Text: NY S01776 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the Port Authority to conduct cumulative impact analysis of environmental hazards at Port Authority facilities and identifies the data to be included in such analysis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S01776 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S01776-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1776
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
         and Commissions
       AN  ACT  in relation to directing the Port Authority of New York and New
         Jersey to conduct a cumulative impact analysis of all  airborne  envi-
         ronmental  hazards  from  automobile,  truck  and airplane traffic and
         emissions therefrom resulting  from  the  operation  of  all  bridges,
         tunnels  and  airports  operated by the Port Authority of New York and
         New Jersey
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. (a) Cumulative impact analysis.  The Port Authority of New
    2  York and New Jersey shall perform a cumulative impact analysis to deter-
    3  mine the current level of  environmental  hazards  concentrated  in  the
    4  vicinity  of  its bridges, tunnels and airport facilities, including the
    5  impacts associated with multiple overlapping projects  and  cross  media
    6  pollutants.  This  cumulative  environmental  impact  analysis  shall be
    7  conducted and coordinated with established procedures, accepted  by  the
    8  department of environmental conservation.
    9    (b)  The  cumulative  impact analysis authorized by this section shall
   10  include, but not be limited to, the identification of:  (i)  automobile,
   11  truck  and  airplane  traffic  and emissions and all hazardous waste and
   12  industrial waste as defined in sections 27-0901 and 17-0105 of the envi-
   13  ronmental conservation law; (ii)  regulated  air  contaminants  and  air
   14  contamination  sources  as  defined  in section 19-0107 of such law; and
   15  (iii) toxic pollutants as defined in section 17-0105 of such  law.  Such
   16  study shall also include an analysis of the environment on current resi-
   17  dents  and  their  activities; the extent of decay and blight imposed on
   18  the surrounding community and the extent to which the operation  of  the
   19  Port  Authorities  bridges,  tunnels  and  airport facilities and uncon-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06741-01-1
       S. 1776                             2
    1  trolled sites pose a threat to both public health and overall  community
    2  development.
    3    (c)  Until  such  time as the department of environmental conservation
    4  shall determine the health effects connected with the existence of  such
    5  hazards, the Port Authority shall provide for the creation of air quali-
    6  ty  monitoring  and  programmatic remediation in the form of respiratory
    7  health care assistance to persons living in the community  contiguous  a
    8  Port Authority facility.
    9    (d)  For  the purposes of this act, the following terms shall have the
   10  following meanings: (i) A "Port Authority  bridge,  tunnel  and  airport
   11  facility"  means  a facility that is owned, operated, or utilized by, or
   12  under contract with, a municipality or political subdivision  and  which
   13  is utilized by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
   14    (ii)  "Cumulative  impact  analysis"  means the study of impact on the
   15  environment which results from the incremental impact of an action  when
   16  added to other past, present, and proposed future actions, regardless of
   17  the agency or person that undertakes such other actions.
   18    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
   19  state of New Jersey of  legislation  having  an  identical  effect  with
   20  section  one  of  this  act;  but  if the state of New Jersey shall have
   21  already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect  imme-
   22  diately and provide that the state of New Jersey shall notify the legis-
   23  lative  bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the enactment of
   24  the provisions provided for in section one of this act in order that the
   25  commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective  data  base  of
   26  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
   27  effecting  the  provisions  of  section  44  of  the legislative law and
   28  section 70-b of the public officers law.