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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 31, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Englebright)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conserva-
tion
AN ACT to require a health impact assessment for natural gas compressor
stations in New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. A school of public health within the state university of
New York shall conduct a comprehensive health impact assessment follow-
ing a model recommended by the centers for disease control and
prevention to examine potential public health impacts that could be
caused by natural gas compressor stations. For the purposes of this act,
health impact assessment shall mean a combination of procedures, meth-
ods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as
to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distrib-
ution of those effects within the population.
§ 2. Prior to the commencement of such assessment, the school of
public health conducting such assessment shall prepare a scoping docu-
ment that will establish the parameters of the health impact assessment.
The scoping document shall include the analyses contained in this act,
as well as any other potential analyses to be conducted, and shall be
subject to public review, comment and revision.
§ 3. Such health impact assessment of natural gas compressor stations
shall include, at a minimum, the following analyses:
(a) Identification and assessment of the magnitude, nature and extent
of potential localized and statewide health impacts utilizing multiple
methods and information derived from a combination of public health
tools including risk assessment, scientific literature, and population
analysis;
(b) Identification and assessment of disparate community-level
impacts;
(c) Estimated costs of any health impacts to the state, local govern-
ments, health insurers, employers and the state's public and private
health care systems as a whole;
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(d) Recommendations for any mitigation of potential health impacts and
the methods and evidence used to arrive at such recommendations; and
(e) A long-term plan for monitoring, evaluating, tracking and mitigat-
ing potential health impacts.
§ 4. A draft of such health impact assessment shall be released for
public review and comment. The school of public health conducting such
assessment shall conduct a minimum of two public hearings regarding the
findings of the draft health impact assessment and allow at least one
hundred eighty days for the public to submit comments. Upon the closing
of the public comment period, such school of public health shall cate-
gorize, review and respond to all public comments. If substantive chang-
es to the health impact assessment are made as a result of public
comments, such school of public health shall issue a revised draft. Such
revised draft shall similarly be subject to public comment and review,
in compliance with the parameters set out for the initial draft.
§ 5. After responding to all public comments as required by section
four of this act, and upon completion of the health impact assessment,
such school of public health shall submit the completed health impact
assessment to the New York state department of health. The department of
health shall make such health impact assessment available to the public
and deliver copies to the legislature and the governor for review.
§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.