Bill Text: NY A07718 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to notify, by registered mail, within five days, municipal officials and landowners or tenants impacted (within two thousand feet) by a petroleum discharge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to environmental conservation [A07718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07718-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7718
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 16, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Environmental Conservation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law, in relation to notification of
         discharge by the department of environmental conservation
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of section 175 of the navigation law
    2  is designated subdivision 1 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2.  UPON  NOTIFICATION  OF  A DISCHARGE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
    5  THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY BY REGISTERED MAIL WITHIN FIVE
    6  DAYS: (A) THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER  OF  ANY  COUNTY,  CITY,  TOWN  OR
    7  VILLAGE  IMPACTED  BY THE SPILL, AND (B) ALL LANDOWNERS OR TENANTS ADJA-
    8  CENT TO AND NEARBY THE SITE WHOSE PROPERTY OR DRINKING WATER SUPPLY  MAY
    9  BE POTENTIALLY ADVERSELY IMPACTED BY SUCH DISCHARGE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
   10  THIS  SECTION,  ADJACENT  AND  NEARBY  LANDOWNERS AND TENANTS SHALL MEAN
   11  THOSE WITHIN TWO THOUSAND FEET OF THE SPILL.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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