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Assembly Bill A4874

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates an interagency task force on environmental justice

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2009-A4874 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 6 ยงยง6-0101 - 6-0107, En Con L

2009-A4874 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates an interagency task force on environmental justice to identify adverse human health effects on racial and ethnic minority and low-income populations and to develop strategies to eliminate practices which have a disproportionate impact on such groups.

2009-A4874 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4874

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, PEOPLES, BRODSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. AUBRY, BOYLAND, CLARK, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, LUPARDO,  SCHROEDER
  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conserva-
  tion

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  creating the task force on environmental justice

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

  Section 1. Legislative  findings  and  declarations.  The  legislature
hereby declares that it is the policy of the state to ensure the equita-
ble  distribution of environmental benefits and the fair and responsible
avoidance of human health and environmental risks to all of  New  York's
citizens and communities.
  The  legislature  further  finds that racial and ethnic minority popu-
lations and low income communities bear a disproportionate share of  the
health  and  environmental  burdens and risks caused by polluted air and
contaminated water and by solid waste landfills, hazardous waste facili-
ties,  wastewater  treatment  plants,  waste  incinerators   and   other
projects.
  The  legislature finds that such disproportionate share of burdens and
risks may be the result  of,  among  other  things,  demographic,  local
zoning  and  siting  decisions, the failure to consider fully cumulative
impacts during environmental review and past invidious discrimination.
  The legislature further finds that state  and  local  government  must
identify  and  minimize  to  the  fullest extent practicable, dispropor-
tionate adverse human health and environmental effects caused  or  wors-
ened  by  their  programs,  policies  and activities in order to achieve
environmental justice.
  S 2. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
article 6 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01220-01-9

              

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