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]
Download: New_York-2015-A00923-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 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