Senate Bill S367

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes the enactment or enforcement of local laws or ordinances requiring the monitoring of groundwater impacts resulting from mining or the reclamation of mines within certain counties

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

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2015-S367 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A166
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23-2703, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7231, A9534
2017-2018: S4812, A6314

2015-S367 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the enactment or enforcement of local laws or ordinances requiring the monitoring of groundwater impacts resulting from mining or the reclamation of mines within counties with a population of one million or more which draws its primary source of drinking water for a majority of county residents from a designated sole source aquifer.

2015-S367 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S367 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

    S. 367                                                    A. 166

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
  Conservation

IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced  by M. of A. THIELE, COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  authorizing  the  enactment or enforcement of local laws or ordinances
  requiring the monitoring of groundwater impacts resulting from  mining
  or  the  reclamation of mines within counties with a population of one
  million or more which draw their primary source of drinking water  for
  a majority of county residents from a designated sole source aquifer

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

  Section 1. Section 23-2703 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  166  of  the  laws  of 1991, is amended to read as
follows:
S 23-2703. Declaration of policy.
  1. The legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state
to foster and encourage the development of  an  economically  sound  and
stable  mining industry, and the orderly development of domestic mineral
resources and reserves necessary  to  assure  satisfaction  of  economic
needs  compatible  with  sound  environmental  management practices. The
legislature further declares it to  be  the  policy  of  this  state  to
provide for the management and planning for the use of these non-renewa-
ble  natural  resources  and to provide, in conjunction with such mining
operations, for reclamation of affected lands; to  encourage  productive
use  including but not restricted to the planting of forests, the plant-
ing of crops for harvest, the seeding of grass and legumes  for  grazing
purposes,  the  protection  and  enhancement  of  wildlife  and  aquatic

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

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