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Assembly Bill A5765

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to solid waste management facilities

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2009-A5765 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง27-0701 & 27-0707, En Con L

2009-A5765 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that an applicant for a permit to construct or renew a permit to operate a solid waste management facility demonstrate compatibility with the solid waste management plan of the planning unit or units within which such facility is located and the planning unit or units from which solid waste is to be received.

2009-A5765 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5765

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 19, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. SWEENEY, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  LUPARDO  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
  Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to solid
  waste management facilities

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  27-0701 of the environmental
conservation law, as amended by chapter 253 of  the  laws  of  1988,  is
amended to read as follows:
  2.  "Solid  waste  management  facility"  means  any facility employed
beyond the initial solid waste collection  process  including,  but  not
limited  to,  transfer  stations,  baling facilities, rail haul or barge
haul facilities, processing systems, including resource recovery facili-
ties or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume, sanitary land-
fills, facilities  for  the  disposal  of  construction  and  demolition
debris,  plants  and facilities for compacting, composting or [pyroliza-
tion] PYROLYZATION of solid wastes, incinerators,  RECYCLABLES  HANDLING
AND  RECOVERY  FACILITIES  and  other solid waste disposal, reduction or
conversion facilities.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 27-0707 of the  environmental  conserva-
tion law is amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
  D. THAT AN APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT A SOLID WASTE MANAGE-
MENT  FACILITY  SHALL  NOT BE COMPLETE UNLESS THE APPLICANT DEMONSTRATES
THE CONSISTENCY OF SUCH FACILITY OR FACILITIES WITH  THE  OBJECTIVES  OF
THE  LOCAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN, AS IDENTIFIED IN SECTION 27-0107
OF THIS ARTICLE, OF THE PLANNING UNIT  WITHIN  WHICH  SUCH  FACILITY  IS
LOCATED  AND THE PLANNING UNITS FROM WHICH SOLID WASTE IS EXPECTED TO BE
RECEIVED.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02839-01-9

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