Requires for construction activities that require a state pollutant discharge elimination system permit owners and operators to submit a copy of the required public notice; requires each county receiving such notice to make such notice publicly available on its website.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7882
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 11, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring for construction activities that require a state pollutant
discharge elimination system permit owners and operators to submit a
copy of the required public notice
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 17-0805 of the environmental
conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
follows:
A-1. (I) FOR STORM WATER FROM CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES THAT REQUIRES A
SPDES PERMIT, THE OWNER OR OPERATOR SHALL PROVIDE A COPY OF THE PUBLIC
NOTICE REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION TO THE COUNTY OR
COUNTIES IN WHICH SUCH CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE, AND ALL OTHER
COUNTIES, THE WATERS OF WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED.
(II) EACH COUNTY RECEIVING SUCH NOTICE SHALL MAKE SUCH NOTICE PUBLICLY
AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE IN A MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the imple-
mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made
and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05210-01-5
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