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Assembly Bill A1767

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts contractors from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions performed within the city of Buffalo

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2017-A1767 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §904, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8857
2013-2014: A3834
2015-2016: A3370

2017-A1767 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts contractors from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions performed within the city of Buffalo.

2017-A1767 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1767
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to exempting contractors from
   payment  of  asbestos  project  notification  fees   for   demolitions
   performed within the city of Buffalo

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 904 of the labor law,  as  amended
 by section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
 read as follows:
   2.  Any  contractor engaged in an asbestos project involving more than
 two hundred sixty linear feet or more than one hundred sixty square feet
 of asbestos or asbestos materials shall notify both  the  United  States
 Environmental  Protection  Agency, Region II, Air and Hazardous Material
 Division and the commissioner in writing ten days prior to the commence-
 ment of work on the project or, if emergency conditions make it impossi-
 ble to provide ten days prior notice, as soon as practicable after iden-
 tification of the project. The notice to the commissioner shall  include
 the  following  information:  the  name,  address  and asbestos handling
 license number of the contractor working on the project; the address and
 description of the building or area, including size, age and  prior  use
 of the building or area; the amount of friable asbestos material present
 in  square  feet  and/or  linear  feet,  if applicable; room designation
 numbers or other local information where such asbestos material is found
 unless such material is found throughout the entire structure; the sche-
 duled starting and completion dates  for  removal;  the  procedures  and
 equipment,  including  ventilating  systems  that  will be employed; any
 additional information which the commissioner may require;  and,  EXCEPT
 FOR CONTRACTORS ENGAGED IN SUCH ASBESTOS PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS
 OF  THE  CITY OF BUFFALO, shall be accompanied by a project notification
 fee as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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