Bill Text: NY S07032 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes that areas containing lead-contaminated soil shall have the levels of lead contamination decreased to 300 ppm for residential areas and 1,000 ppm for commercial areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07032-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7032

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the environmental conservation
          law, in relation to the remediation of lead contaminated soil

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

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
     3    32. The commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of environ-
     4  mental conservation shall require that areas containing lead-contaminat-
     5  ed  soil  shall  have  the levels of lead contamination decreased to the
     6  level of three hundred ppm (parts per  million)  for  residential  zoned
     7  areas  and one thousand ppm for areas zoned for commercial and/or indus-
     8  trial development.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0301 of the environmental conservation
    10  law is amended by adding a new paragraph nn to read as follows:
    11    nn. Require, in consultation  with  the  commissioner  of  health,  as
    12  required  by  subdivision  thirty-two  of section two hundred six of the
    13  public health law, that areas containing lead-contaminated soil have the
    14  levels of lead contamination decreased to the level of three hundred ppm
    15  (parts per million) for residential zoned areas and one thousand ppm for
    16  areas zoned for commercial and/or industrial development.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    20  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    21  on or before such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11449-01-3