Bill Text: NY S03852 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to adding the Saw Kill and the Fall Kill located in Dutchess county to the definition of inland waterways as a major creek in order to make such waterway eligible for funding through the waterfront revitalization program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - SIGNED CHAP.287 [S03852 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03852-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3852

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding  the  Saw  Kill
          and Fall Kill creeks to the definition of inland waterways

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 911 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as separately amended by chapters 273, 278, 347 and 449 of the
     3  laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek located in
     5  Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinderhook  Creek  located
     6  in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rensselaer county, Bash-
     7  er Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, Cincinnati, East Kill, Esopus
     8  (including upper and lower branches), Ferguson, Fish (including east and
     9  west  branches),  Gooseberry,  Great  Valley,  Kennyetto,  Little Sandy,
    10  Moyer, Mud Creek located in Oneida  county,  Ninemile  Creek,  Onondaga,
    11  Oriskany,  Peekskill Hollow, Reall, Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout, Sandy,
    12  Sauquoit, Schoharie, Shawangunk  Kill,  Six  Mile  Creek,  South  Sandy,
    13  Oatka,  Tonawanda,  West Kill, Scajaquada, Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic,
    14  Willsey in the village of Wurtsboro,  Wood  Creek  located  in  Herkimer
    15  county,  Wood  Creek  located  in  Oneida county, Black Creek located in
    16  Monroe county, Black Creek located  in  Genesee  and  Wyoming  counties,
    17  Ellicott  Creek located in Erie county, Wynantskill, Claverack, Taghkan-
    18  ic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek and Butternut Creek  located  in
    19  Onondaga  county, Nanticoke and Sawkill (in Ulster county), Saw Kill and
    20  Fall Kill located in Dutchess county;
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05258-01-1