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Assembly Bill A4514

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the creation, maintenance and regulation of freshwater and tidal wetlands mitigation banks

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2009-A4514 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd En Con L, generally; amd §10, Hway L; add §358-b, Pub Auth L; amd §92-s, St Fin L; add §1105, Lim Lil L; amd §9, Ct Claims Act

2009-A4514 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the creation, maintenance and regulation of freshwater and tidal wetlands mitigation banks, to provide compensatory mitigation in advance of authorized impacts to similar resources as a result of permitted activity; provides for mitigation credits which may be sold or resold; makes conforming changes to other laws; permits public-private entity formation of limited liability company wetlands mitigation banks.

2009-A4514 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4514

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  CLARK, COOK, ESPAILLAT -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
  Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, the highway law, the
  public  authorities  law, the state finance law, the limited liability
  company law and the court of claims act, in relation to the  creation,
  maintenance and regulation of freshwater and tidal wetlands mitigation
  banks

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 6  of  section  24-0301  of  the  environmental
conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 654 of the laws of 1977, is
amended to read as follows:
  6. Except as provided  in  subdivision  eight  of  this  section,  the
commissioner  shall  supervise  the  maintenance  of such boundary maps,
which shall be available to the public for inspection and examination at
the regional office of the department in which the wetlands  are  wholly
or partly located and in the office of the clerk of each county in which
each  such wetland or a portion thereof is located. The commissioner may
readjust the map thereafter to clarify the boundaries of  the  wetlands,
to  correct any errors on the map, to effect any additions, deletions or
technical changes on the map, and to reflect changes as have occurred as
a result of the granting of permits pursuant to section 24-0703 of  this
article, THE CREATION OF FRESHWATER MITIGATION BANKS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
TWENTY-SIX  OF  THIS CHAPTER, or natural changes which may have occurred
through erosion, accretion, or otherwise. Notice  of  such  readjustment
shall  be  given  in the same manner as set forth in subdivision five of
this section for the promulgation of final freshwater wetlands maps.
  S 2. Section 24-0501 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08164-02-9

              

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