Bill Text: NY S02273 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the Montauk Point shoals as an important bird area; directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to designate such area as part of the New York state bird conservation area program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5550 [S02273 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02273-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2273

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- 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
          designating  the  Montauk  Point shoals area as an important bird area
          and making such area part of the New York state bird conservation area
          program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  11-2001 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. a. The Montauk Point shoals area of the county of  Suffolk,  having
     4  met  the  criteria  of  subdivision  three  of  this  section, is hereby
     5  declared to be an important bird area and the commissioner shall  desig-
     6  nate  such  area  as  part  of the New York state bird conservation area
     7  program.
     8    b. For the purposes of this title, "Montauk Point shoals  area"  means
     9  those  marine  and  coastal areas off the shore of Montauk Point, in the
    10  county of Suffolk, extending to the coastal waters within a  sixty  foot
    11  bathymetric  contour  that  encompasses  the area beginning just west of
    12  Shagwong Point on the northern shore of Montauk Point,  continuing  east
    13  around  Montauk  Point, and terminating just east of Ditch Plains on the
    14  Atlantic Ocean side of Montauk Point.   Such area consisting  of  waters
    15  that  are sixty or less feet in depth, and within between three and one-
    16  half to four miles from the shoreline.  Provided, that the  commissioner
    17  shall  be  authorized to change the boundaries of such area, by rule, as
    18  he or she shall deem necessary.
    19    c. That portion of the New York state bird conservation  area  program
    20  designated  pursuant  to this subdivision shall be known as the "Montauk
    21  Point shoals bird conservation area".
    22    d. Nothing in this section shall  be  deemed  to  impose  new  fishing
    23  restrictions.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06749-01-3