Bill Text: NY S04357 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to selectively cutting timber and exclusion of current best management practices from regulated activities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04357-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4357
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 21, 2013
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       Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- (at request of the Legislative Commission on
         Rural  Resources)  -- 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
         selectively cutting timber
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4  of  section  24-0701  of  the  environmental
    2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 697 of the laws of 1979, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    4. The activities of farmers  and  other  landowners  in  grazing  and
    5  watering livestock, making reasonable use of water resources, harvesting
    6  natural  products  of the wetlands, selectively cutting timber, draining
    7  land or wetlands for growing agricultural products and otherwise  engag-
    8  ing  in  the  use  of  wetlands  or  other land for growing agricultural
    9  products shall be excluded  from  regulated  activities  and  shall  not
   10  require  a  permit  under subdivision one hereof, except that structures
   11  not required for enhancement or maintenance of the agricultural  produc-
   12  tivity  of  the  land  and  any filling activities shall not be excluded
   13  hereunder, and provided that the use of land designated as a  freshwater
   14  wetland  upon  the freshwater wetlands map at the effective date thereof
   15  for uses other than those referred  to  in  this  subdivision  shall  be
   16  subject  to  the  provisions of this article.   WHEN SELECTIVELY CUTTING
   17  TIMBER, THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF TEMPORARY SKIDDER TRAILS AND MACHIN-
   18  ERY, USING CURRENT BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AS DEFINED  BY  THE  UNITED
   19  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE  FOREST SERVICES, FOR THE REMOVAL OF
   20  SUCH TIMBER SHALL BE EXCLUDED FROM REGULATED ACTIVITIES  AND  SHALL  NOT
   21  REQUIRE A PERMIT UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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