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Assembly Bill A4692

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts certain inland lakes from wetlands designations

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2025-A4692 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3656
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §24-0301, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10653, S9799

2025-A4692 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts inland lakes which are navigable waterways and have an area of 150 acres or more from wetlands designations, not including great lakes.

2025-A4692 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4692
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MOLITOR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   exempting certain inland lakes from wetlands designations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 24-0301 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  INLAND  LAKES WHICH ARE NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS AND WHICH HAVE AN AREA
 OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY ACRES OR MORE SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM DESIGNATION AS A
 FRESHWATER WETLAND, WHENEVER THE COMMISSIONER IS DELINEATING  BOUNDARIES
 OF  FRESHWATER  WETLANDS  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
 SECTION, "INLAND LAKE" SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE GREAT LAKES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08097-01-5

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