Senate Bill S408

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S408 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §27-0111, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1432
2011-2012: S4448
2015-2016: S2285
2017-2018: S2912

2013-S408 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property.

2013-S408 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S408 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   408

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- 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
  siting  and  licensing  of  radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or
  transfer stations

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
new section 27-0111 to read as follows:
S 27-0111. SITING  AND  LICENSING  OF  RADIOACTIVE  OR  HAZARDOUS  WASTE
            DISPOSAL OR TRANSFER STATIONS.
  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A RADIOAC-
TIVE  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION,  A RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSFER STATION, A
HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL STATION, OR A HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER  STATION
SHALL NOT BE SITED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF THE BOUNDARY
OF  ANY  SCHOOL PROPERTY. FURTHERMORE, NO LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED TO ANY
INDIVIDUAL TO OPERATE ANY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL  STATION,  RADIOAC-
TIVE  WASTE  TRANSFER  STATION,  HAZARDOUS  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION, OR
HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER STATION WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET
OF THE BOUNDARIES OF A SCHOOL PROPERTY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00691-01-3


              

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