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Assembly Bill A2294

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property

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2019-A2294 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §27-0111, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7868
2013-2014: A1644
2015-2016: A923
2017-2018: A2032

2019-A2294 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property.

2019-A2294 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2294
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental  Conserva-
   tion
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   siting and licensing of radioactive or  hazardous  waste  disposal  or
   transfer stations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 27-0111 to read as follows:
 § 27-0111. SITING  AND  LICENSING  OF  RADIOACTIVE  OR  HAZARDOUS  WASTE
             DISPOSAL OR TRANSFER STATIONS.
   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A RADIOAC-
 TIVE WASTE DISPOSAL STATION, A RADIOACTIVE  WASTE  TRANSFER  STATION,  A
 HAZARDOUS  WASTE DISPOSAL STATION, OR A HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER STATION
 OTHER THAN HOSPITALS, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE  INSTI-
 TUTIONS  THAT  PROVIDE  MEDICAL  TREATMENT  AND PERFORM MEDICAL RESEARCH
 SHALL NOT BE SITED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF THE BOUNDARY
 OF ANY SCHOOL PROPERTY. FURTHERMORE, NO LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED  TO  ANY
 INDIVIDUAL  TO  OPERATE ANY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL STATION, RADIOAC-
 TIVE WASTE  TRANSFER  STATION,  HAZARDOUS  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION,  OR
 HAZARDOUS  WASTE TRANSFER STATION OTHER THAN HOSPITALS, RESEARCH FACILI-
 TIES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS THAT PROVIDE MEDICAL  TREATMENT
 AND  PERFORM  MEDICAL  RESEARCH WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET 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.
                                                            LBD04455-01-9

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