Bill Text: NY S07772 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program to conduct scientific research and assessment of the feasibility of seaweed cultivation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-09 - SIGNED CHAP.322 [S07772 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07772-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 7772--A                                           A. 10146--A
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      May 12, 2016
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
          Conservation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  --  reported  and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          establishing  a  pilot  program  to  conduct  research  and scientific
          assessment of the feasibility of seaweed  cultivation;  and  providing
          for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 13-0302 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  Suffolk  county shall be authorized to allow the underwater lands
     4  at Gardiner's and Peconic Bays within the shellfish cultivation zone  to
     5  be  used  for  the implementation of a pilot program to conduct research
     6  and scientific assessment of the  feasibility  of  seaweed  cultivation.
     7  Such  pilot  program  shall  be  limited to persons holding a lease from
     8  Suffolk county for shellfish cultivation and shall be limited to a total
     9  of five acres of such cultivation zone provided that any one person  may
    10  be authorized to conduct seaweed cultivation on no more than one acre of
    11  the  lease. Suffolk county shall provide a report to the legislature and
    12  the department on the pilot program no later  than  January  first,  two
    13  thousand twenty-six.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    15  deemed repealed on July 1, 2026.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15349-05-6