Bill Text: NY S09370 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts provisions relating to permit modifications, suspensions, revocations, and renewals; provides for expiration of any permit which has no expiration and has been in effect for five years; provides renewal periods shall not be longer than five years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S09370 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S09370-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9370 IN SENATE May 14, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 permit modifications, suspensions, revocations, renewals, reissuances and recertifications The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 70-0115 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to read as follows: 3 3. Any permit which does not expire pursuant to its terms and which 4 has been in effect for more than five years shall expire on the date 5 which is two years after the effectiveness of this subdivision, and any 6 renewal thereof shall include an expiration date which is no later than 7 five years after the expiration contemplated by this subdivision, unless 8 another period for expiration of ten years or less is applicable under 9 this chapter. 10 4. With respect to a permit that has been extended pursuant to subdi- 11 vision two of section four hundred one of the state administrative 12 procedure act by reason of the applicant making a timely and sufficient 13 application, the department shall make a final determination on such 14 application within eighteen months of the date the application is 15 received. 16 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of section four 17 hundred one of the state administrative procedure act, a permit that is 18 denied or the terms of which are limited by the department as contem- 19 plated by such subdivision shall automatically be suspended on the date 20 which is two years from the date on which the department made the deter- 21 mination regarding denial or limitation; provided, however, that a 22 permit that was denied or limited as contemplated by such subdivision 23 prior to the effectiveness of this subdivision shall not be suspended 24 pursuant to this subdivision until the date which is two years after the 25 effectiveness of this subdivision. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14316-02-4
