Assembly Bill A5176

Vetoed By Governor
2009-2010 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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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S1432 - Vetoed by Governor

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

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2009-A5176 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1432
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง27-0111, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S4448
2013-2014: S408
2015-2016: S2285
2017-2018: S2912

2009-A5176 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2009-A5176 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5176

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred 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.
                                                           LBD05062-01-9

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