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                                   3098
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, ABBATE, PRETLOW -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, the environmental conservation law, and
   the  public  authorities law, in relation to designating "The Governor
   Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge" as "The Franklin and Eleanor  Roose-
   velt Bridge"

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  349-a  of  the  highway  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  530  of  the  laws  of 1993, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the  southern
 Westchester  connection  at  or  near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
 northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river  at  a  point
 south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The [Governor
 Malcolm  Wilson  Tappan  Zee]  FRANKLIN  AND  ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Bridge",
 thence in a general westerly direction to intersect with existing  route
 number seventeen or to a connection with that route, including a thruway
 connection  from  that  portion of the section west of the Hudson river,
 generally southerly to a point to be determined by the authority on  the
 New York-New Jersey boundary line.
   § 2. Section 342-ww of the highway law, as added by chapter 245 of the
 laws of 2001, is amended to add as follows:
   §  342-ww.  Portion  of the New York state thruway to be designated as
 the "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the  New
 York  state  thruway  in  the county of Rockland constituting interstate
 route 287 from the New Jersey border to "The  [Governor  Malcolm  Wilson
 Tappan  Zee]  FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Bridge" shall be designated
 and known as the "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway".
   § 3. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
 by chapter 530 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 § 13-0103. Marine and coastal district described.
   The marine and coastal district shall include the waters of the Atlan-
 tic  Ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all other
 tidal waters within the state, including the  Hudson  River  up  to  the
 [Governor  Malcolm  Wilson  Tappan  Zee]  FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
 bridge.
   § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the  environmental  conserva-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 327 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. The department periodically shall examine all shellfish lands with-
 in the marine district  and  the  Hudson  River  between  the  [Governor
 Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee] FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT bridge and the
 federal  dam  at  Troy  to  ascertain  the sanitary condition thereof in
 accordance with regulations promulgated pursuant to section  13-0319  of
 this title.
   §  5.  Subdivision  2 of section 356 of the public authorities law, as
 amended by chapter 530 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
 Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road,  thence  in  a  general
 northerly  and  westerly  direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
 south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The [Governor
 Malcolm Wilson Tappan  Zee]  FRANKLIN  AND  ELEANOR  ROOSEVELT  Bridge",
 including  a  highway  connection  between "The [Governor Malcolm Wilson
 Tappan Zee] FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Bridge" and the  New  England
 section  of  the thruway presently known as interstate route two hundred
 eighty-seven, thence in a general westerly direction to  intersect  with
 existing  route  number  seventeen  or  to a connection with that route,
 including a thruway connection from that portion of the section west  of
 the Hudson river, generally southerly to a point to be determined by the
 authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.