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Assembly Bill A7718

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires the department of environmental conservation to notify municipal officials and landowners or tenants impacted by a discharge

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2011-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง175, Nav L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A3118

2011-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of environmental conservation to notify, by registered mail, within five days, municipal officials and landowners or tenants impacted (within two thousand feet) by a petroleum discharge.

2011-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7718

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 16, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Environmental Conservation

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law, in relation to notification of
  discharge by the department of environmental conservation

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

  Section  1. The opening paragraph of section 175 of the navigation law
is designated subdivision 1 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read  as
follows:
  2.  UPON  NOTIFICATION  OF  A DISCHARGE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY BY REGISTERED MAIL WITHIN FIVE
DAYS: (A) THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER  OF  ANY  COUNTY,  CITY,  TOWN  OR
VILLAGE  IMPACTED  BY THE SPILL, AND (B) ALL LANDOWNERS OR TENANTS ADJA-
CENT TO AND NEARBY THE SITE WHOSE PROPERTY OR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY  MAY
BE POTENTIALLY ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY SUCH DISCHARGE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THIS  SECTION,  ADJACENT  AND  NEARBY  LANDOWNERS AND TENANTS SHALL MEAN
THOSE WITHIN TWO THOUSAND FEET OF THE SPILL.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11599-01-1

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