Bill Text: NY S01984 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01984-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1984

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sens. HARCKHAM, GOUNARDES, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, ROLISON
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          directing the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the
          environmental radiation surveillance program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision  1  of  section  3-0301  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law  is  amended  by  adding a new paragraph ii to read as
     3  follows:
     4    ii. Provide freely and make publicly available on its website an annu-
     5  al report on radioactive releases or disposals, with respect to informa-
     6  tion gathered regarding such activities pursuant to 6  NYCRR  380.    In
     7  conjunction with the department of health, such report shall be analyzed
     8  to show trends and the cumulative impact of such radioactive releases or
     9  disposals;  provided  that  other relevant agencies shall be notified if
    10  contamination has exceeded standards for maximum allowable level permit-
    11  ted in drinking water or food sources, as prescribed by applicable state
    12  and federal law;
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.




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