senate Bill S1725

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for protection of certain streams

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 24, 2023 reported and committed to finance
Jan 13, 2023 referred to environmental conservation

Votes

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Jan 24, 2023 - Environmental Conservation committee Vote

S1725
7
1
committee
7
Aye
1
Nay
3
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Environmental Conservation Committee Vote: Jan 24, 2023

aye (7)
nay (1)
aye wr (3)

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S1725 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4601
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15-0501, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5612, A8349
2021-2022: S4162, A6652

S1725 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for protection of certain streams; adds class C streams to the list of protected streams.

S1725 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S1725 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1725
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   protection of certain streams
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2  of  section  15-0501  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 233 of the laws of 1979, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. For the purposes of this section, stream shall mean that portion of
 any fresh surface watercourse, except lakes or ponds  having  a  surface
 area  greater  than  ten  acres  at  mean low water level, for which the
 department has adopted  or  may  hereafter  adopt  pursuant  to  section
 17-030l, any of the following classifications or standards:
   AA and AA (T),
   A and A (T),
   B and B (T),
   C AND C (T)
   Small  ponds  or  lakes with a surface area at mean low water level of
 ten acres or less, located in the course of a stream, shall  be  consid-
 ered a part of the stream and subject to regulation under this section.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04957-01-3

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