Assembly Bill A3682A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  3682--A
                                                          Cal. No. 21
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES,  SCHIAVONI,  LASHER, COLTON,
   TORRES, LEE, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Envi-
   ronmental Conservation -- reported from committee, advanced to a third
   reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place on the
   order of third reading
 
 AN ACT directing  the  departments  of  environmental  conservation  and
   health  to establish environmental standards for ambient lead and lead
   contamination  in  soils;  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. Legislative findings. The legislature  finds  and  declares
 that  there  is  a  present  need  to  establish New York standards with
 respect to levels of ambient lead and levels of  lead  contamination  in
 soils  and  on  floors  and window sills. The legislature finds that the
 current regulatory standards  are  inadequate  to  protect  the  general
 public  and  particularly  small  children  from  the harmful effects of
 ingesting or inhaling lead dust, often resulting from  lead  paint,  and
 coming  into  contact  with  lead  on  exposed surfaces. The legislature
 declares that it shall be the  responsibility  of  the  commissioner  of
 environmental  conservation,  in  consultation  with the commissioner of
 health, to adopt standards for ambient lead and  lead  contamination  of
 soil  and windows and floors, in a manner that would be fully protective
 of children's health, and in accordance with the procedures set forth in
 the environmental conservation law.
   § 2. No later than one hundred eighty days from the effective date  of
 this act, the departments of environmental conservation and health shall
 adopt and promulgate new standards, and update any existing standards as
 appropriate,  for  dust  lead hazards, soil-lead hazards and ambient air
 quality standards for the level of  lead  in  various  media  that  will
 result  in  blood  lead  levels that are no higher than a target that is
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 fully protective of human health and which at a minimum include  consid-
 eration  of  recommendations from the centers for disease control, which
 shall in no event be less stringent than the standards set forth  in  40
 CFR Part 745, as of January 13, 2025.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall expire one year after  such  effective  date
 when  upon  such  date  the  provisions  of  this act shall be repealed.
 Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
 tive date are authorized to be made and  completed  on  or  before  such
 date.