Bill Text: NY A02294 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A02294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02294-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2294
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental  Conserva-
          tion
        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  § 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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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