Senate Bill S2706

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the East of Hudson watershed road salt reduction task force, pilot plan and test program

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S2706 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5204
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9825
2021-2022: S6322, A4067

2023-S2706 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the East of Hudson watershed road salt reduction task force, pilot plan and test program to conduct a comprehensive review of road salt contamination and road management best practices within the East of Hudson watershed.

2023-S2706 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2706
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to establish the East of Hudson  watershed  road  salt  reduction
   task  force  and  pilot  program; and providing for the repeal of such
   provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  1. There is hereby established an East of Hudson watershed
 road  salt  reduction  task  force, hereinafter referred to as the "task
 force", to conduct a comprehensive review of road salt contamination and
 roadway, parking lot, driveway, and sidewalk management  best  practices
 within  the  East  of Hudson watershed. Such task force shall consist of
 fourteen members which shall include the commissioner of  transportation
 or  their  designee,  the  commissioner of environmental conservation or
 their designee, the  commissioner  of  health  or  their  designee,  the
 commissioner  of  the  department  of environmental protection, or their
 designee, and ten other members to  be  appointed  by  the  governor  as
 follows:  two  upon the recommendation of the temporary president of the
 senate, two upon the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly,  one
 upon  the  recommendation of the minority leader of the senate, one upon
 the recommendation of the minority leader  of  the  assembly,  and  four
 without  recommendation from any other person.  The appointed members of
 the task force shall include a representative of local governments with-
 in the East of Hudson watershed and individuals  with  expertise  in  at
 least  one  of the following: civil engineering, hydrology, geology, the
 science of road salt contamination, highway maintenance and  operations,
 and  public  health.    For the purposes of this act, the East of Hudson
 watershed shall include portions of  Dutchess,  Putnam  and  Westchester
 counties that make up the drainage basin for the New York city reservoir
 system, consistent with the boundaries delineated by geographic informa-
 tion system maps created by the department of environmental protection.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07100-01-3
              

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