Bill Text: NY A00923 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A00923 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          923
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 8, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
         siting  and  licensing  of  radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or
         transfer stations
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
    2  new section 27-0111 to read as follows:
    3  S 27-0111. SITING  AND  LICENSING  OF  RADIOACTIVE  OR  HAZARDOUS  WASTE
    4              DISPOSAL OR TRANSFER STATIONS.
    5    NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A RADIOAC-
    6  TIVE  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION,  A RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSFER STATION, A
    7  HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL STATION, OR A HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER  STATION
    8  OTHER  THAN HOSPITALS, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTI-
    9  TUTIONS THAT PROVIDE MEDICAL  TREATMENT  AND  PERFORM  MEDICAL  RESEARCH
   10  SHALL NOT BE SITED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF THE BOUNDARY
   11  OF  ANY  SCHOOL PROPERTY. FURTHERMORE, NO LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED TO ANY
   12  INDIVIDUAL TO OPERATE ANY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL  STATION,  RADIOAC-
   13  TIVE  WASTE  TRANSFER  STATION,  HAZARDOUS  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION, OR
   14  HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER STATION OTHER THAN HOSPITALS, RESEARCH  FACILI-
   15  TIES  AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS THAT PROVIDE MEDICAL TREATMENT
   16  AND PERFORM MEDICAL RESEARCH WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET  OF
   17  THE BOUNDARIES OF A SCHOOL PROPERTY.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01521-01-5
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