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Assembly Bill A6051

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits the siting of a natural gas compressor facility within two and one-half miles of any school property

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2017-A6051 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 19 Title 13 §19-1301, En Con L

2017-A6051 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the siting of a natural gas compressor facility within two and one-half miles of any school property.

2017-A6051 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6051
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   siting of natural gas compressor facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Article 19 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new title 13 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 13
                SITING OF NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR FACILITIES
 SECTION 19-1301. SITING OF NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR FACILITIES.
 § 19-1301. SITING OF NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR FACILITIES.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A NATURAL
 GAS COMPRESSOR FACILITY SHALL NOT BE SITED WITHIN TWO AND ONE-HALF MILES
 OF THE BOUNDARY OF ANY SCHOOL PROPERTY. FURTHERMORE, NO LICENSE SHALL BE
 ISSUED TO ANY INDIVIDUAL TO OPERATE ANY NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR  FACILITY
 WITHIN TWO AND ONE-HALF MILES OF THE BOUNDARIES OF A SCHOOL PROPERTY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04764-01-7

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