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Jan 03, 2018 | referred to environmental conservation |
Apr 04, 2017 | referred to environmental conservation |
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A7081 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S2953
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Environmental Conservation
- Law Section:
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§1-0303, 8-0109 & 8-0113, En Con L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010: A4245, S5778
2011-2012: A2546, S6689
2013-2014: A542, S692
2015-2016: A1973, S3205
2019-2020: A6016, S5540
2021-2022: A2103, S1031
A7081 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Makes various provisions regulating the location of environmental facilities to insure equity of treatment for minority communities or economically distressed areas; requires environmental impact statements to state whether the siting of a facility will cause or increase a disproportionate burden on such areas.
A7081 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7081 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y April 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the location of environmental facilities THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds and declares that each community in the state should equitably share the responsibilities, burdens, and benefits of managing and solving the state's environmental problems and the facilities necessary to accomplish such ends. The legislature further declares that there has been an inequitable pattern in the siting of environmental facilities in minority and economically distressed communities, which have borne a disproportionate and inequi- table share of such facilities. Consistent with its commitment to providing equal justice for its citizens, the state has a responsibility to establish requirements for the consideration of such decisions by state and local governments in order to insure equality of treatment for all communities. § 2. Section 1-0303 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding three new subdivisions 26, 27, and 28 to read as follows: 26. "ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA" SHALL MEAN AN AREA CHARACTERIZED BY A POVERTY RATE OF AT LEAST TWENTY PERCENT; OR AN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE STATEWIDE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. 27. "MINORITY COMMUNITY" SHALL MEAN ANY CENSUS TRACT OR SUBDIVISION THEREOF THAT INCLUDES TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OR MORE OF ANY ETHNIC GROUP. 28. "ETHNIC GROUP" SHALL MEAN THOSE GROUPS IDENTIFIED IN THE DEFI- NITION OF MINORITY GROUP MEMBER PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED TEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW. § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 8-0109 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph (h-1) to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.