Bill Text: NY S06122 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the time period for state environmental quality review.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06122 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06122-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6122

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 12, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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  the
          time period for state environmental quality review

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

     1    Section 1. Section 8-0107 of the environmental  conservation  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 612 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 8-0107. Agency implementation.
     4    All  agencies shall review their present statutory authority, adminis-
     5  trative regulations, and current policies and procedures for the purpose
     6  of determining whether there are  any  deficiencies  or  inconsistencies
     7  therein  which prohibit full compliance with the purposes and provisions
     8  of this article, and shall recommend or effect such measures as  may  be
     9  necessary to bring their authority and policies into conformity with the
    10  intent,  purposes,  and procedures set forth in this article. They shall
    11  carry out its terms with minimum procedural  and  administrative  delay,
    12  shall avoid unnecessary duplication of reporting and review requirements
    13  by  providing, where feasible, for combined or consolidated proceedings,
    14  and shall expedite all proceedings hereunder in the interests of  prompt
    15  review.   Time periods set forth in this article or established pursuant
    16  to regulation shall be mandatory and are not subject to  any  period  of
    17  extension  unless the applicant or project sponsor agrees to a period of
    18  extension.
    19    § 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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