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Assembly Bill A3320

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts contractors employed by municipalities from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions

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2017-A3320 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §904, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9731
2013-2014: A4015, A8906
2015-2016: A6196

2017-A3320 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts contractors employed by municipalities from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

2017-A3320 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3320
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  exempting  contractors
   employed  by municipalities from payment of asbestos project notifica-
   tion fees for demolitions
 
   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 EMPLOYED BY A MUNICIPALITY TO ENGAGE  IN  SUCH  ASBESTOS
 PROJECTS, 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.
                                                            LBD04319-01-7

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