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Senate Bill S3776

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires local government officials, school district superintendent and landowners to be notified of a petroleum discharge

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2009-S3776 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance

2009-S3776 - Summary

Provides that upon notification of a petroleum discharge, the department of environmental conservation shall notify county and municipal executive officers, school district superintendent, landowners or tenants adjacent to or neighboring the site of the discharge whose property or drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.

2009-S3776 - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3776 - Bill Text download pdf

2009-S3776A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance

2009-S3776A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that upon notification of a petroleum discharge, the department of environmental conservation shall notify county and municipal executive officers, school district superintendent, landowners or tenants adjacent to or neighboring the site of the discharge whose property or drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.

2009-S3776A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S3776A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 3776--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 31, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
  -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
  tee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law, in relation to notification of
  petroleum discharge

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

  Section 1. Section 175 of the navigation law, as amended by chapter 35
of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
  S  175.  Notification  by  persons  responsible  for discharge. 1. Any
person responsible for causing a discharge shall immediately notify  the
department  pursuant to rules and regulations established by the depart-
ment, but in no case later than two hours after the  discharge.  Failure
to  so  notify  shall  make  persons liable to the penalty provisions of
section [192] ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO of this article.    Notwithstanding
the  provisions  of  any  other law, such notification to the department
shall be deemed to fulfill the notification requirements  of  any  other
state or local law.
  2.  UPON  NOTIFICATION  OF A DISCHARGE, PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT  SHALL  IMMEDIATELY  NOTIFY  THE  EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS  OF  THE  COUNTY  AND THE CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE WHERE THE SPILL
OCCURRED, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  WHERE  THE  SPILL
OCCURRED,  ALL  LANDOWNERS  OR  TENANTS  ADJACENT  TO  THE  SITE  OF THE
DISCHARGE AND/OR ANY NEARBY LANDOWNERS  OR  TENANTS  WHOSE  PROPERTY  OR
DRINKING WATER SUPPLY MAY BE POTENTIALLY IMPACTED BY SUCH DISCHARGE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04765-07-9

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