The New York State Senate

 
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                                   6594
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 19, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, the environmental conserva-
   tion law and the highway law, in relation  to  renaming  the  Governor
   Mario M.  Cuomo bridge the Tappan Zee 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 356 of the public authorities law,
 as amended by section 6 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017,  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
 Mario M. Cuomo] TAPPAN  ZEE  Bridge",  including  a  highway  connection
 between  "The  [Governor  Mario M. Cuomo] TAPPAN ZEE 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 inter-
 sect 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  deter-
 mined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
   § 2. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
 by  section 7 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
 read as follows:
 § 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 Mario M. Cuomo] TAPPAN ZEE bridge.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the  environmental  conserva-
 tion law, as amended by section 8 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of
 2017, 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 Mario
 M.  Cuomo] TAPPAN ZEE bridge and the federal dam at  Troy  to  ascertain
 the sanitary condition thereof in accordance with regulations promulgat-
 ed pursuant to section 13-0319 of this title.
   §  4.  Section  342-ww  of the highway law, as amended by section 9 of
 part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read 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 Mario M. Cuomo]
 TAPPAN ZEE Bridge" shall be designated and  known  as  the  "Jewish  War
 Veterans Memorial Highway".
   §  5. Subdivision 2 of section 349-a of the highway law, as amended by
 section 10 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017,  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
 Mario M. Cuomo] TAPPAN ZEE Bridge", thence in a general westerly  direc-
 tion  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. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
 as designated pursuant to this act.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.