Bill Text: NY S07832 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7832 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation to create a report outlining a plan to hydraulically contain and remediate the Navy Grumman plume emanating of contaminants and chemicals in the underground aquifer and drinking water of the southeastern portion of Nassau county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9492 [S07832 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07832-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7832
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 12, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT in relation to directing the department of environmental  conser-
         vation to issue a report outlining a plan to hydraulically contain and
         remediate  the Navy Grumman plume emanating of contaminants and chemi-
         cals in the underground aquifer and drinking water of the southeastern
         portion of Nassau county
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The New York state department of environmental conservation
    2  shall create and deliver to the state legislature a report detailing the
    3  options  of  intercepting and remediating a groundwater plume of contam-
    4  inants, including but not limited to PCE and  TCE,  emanating  from  the
    5  former Naval Weapons Industrial Plant operated by the United States Navy
    6  and the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation facilities in Bethpage,
    7  town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
    8    S  2.  This report must focus on the utilization of hydraulic contain-
    9  ment and state of the art remediation practices to remove these  contam-
   10  inants without utilizing well head treatment, which is a measure of last
   11  resort  only.  It  must focus on how to accomplish this goal in a timely
   12  manner so as to stop the migration of the Navy Grumman plume  before  it
   13  reaches  the  public water supply wells of the Massapequa water district
   14  and the South Farmingdale water district as well as the New York  Ameri-
   15  can  Water  Corporation  wells.  It must be designed to also protect the
   16  natural resources, specifically the  fresh  water  bodies,  tributaries,
   17  wetlands  and  the  salt  water natural resources of the Great South Bay
   18  from these contaminants.
   19    S 3. This report shall estimate the cost, scope, and timetable of such
   20  a project and how the department of  environmental  conservation  would,
   21  along  with enlisting the assistance of the New York State department of
   22  Law and the United States Department of Justice,  enforce  the  law  and
   23  cause  the  United States Navy to pay for or reimburse the costs associ-
   24  ated with this project.
   25    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14913-01-4