Bill Text: NY A08480 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to requiring air and soil quality monitoring for certain projects; requires the department of environmental conservation to conduct air quality and soil quality analysis of the area surrounding any development project, mass transportation project or park project within a city having a population of one million or more which includes the demolition of an existing building or the movement of four hundred five cubic feet of soil; requires the results of such analysis to be posted at the site of such projects daily.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A08480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08480-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8480

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 17, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          requiring air and soil quality monitoring for certain projects

          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 3-0323 to read as follows:
     3  § 3-0323. Air and soil quality monitoring required for certain projects.
     4    1. For purposes of this section, the following terms  shall  have  the
     5  following meanings:
     6    (a)  "development  project" means a project undertaken for the purpose
     7  of improvement or development  of  real  property,  including,  but  not
     8  limited to, street, road and sewer improvements and maintenance;
     9    (b)  "mass  transportation  project"  means the construction or recon-
    10  struction of any rapid transit, railroad, omnibus, marine transportation
    11  or other mass transportation facility; and
    12    (c) "park project" means a project undertaken by a municipality, state
    13  agency, public benefit corporation, public authority, or  not-for-profit
    14  corporation  for  the  acquisition, development or improvement of parks,
    15  preserves,  beaches,  shorefronts,  recreational  sites  and  facilities
    16  including construction of structures, roads and parking facilities.
    17    2.  The department shall conduct air quality and soil quality analyses
    18  of the area surrounding any  development  project,  mass  transportation
    19  project or park project within a city having a population of one million
    20  or  more  which  includes  the demolition of an existing building or the
    21  movement of four hundred five cubic feet of soil, which analysis  shall,
    22  be  conducted  in  a  manner that is protective of human health and at a
    23  minimum  include,  federal  criteria  pollutants  including  particulate
    24  matter of 2.5 microns or smaller and other emissions as the commissioner
    25  may specify.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13495-01-9

        A. 8480                             2

     1    3.  The department shall post the results of such air quality and soil
     2  quality analyses daily at the site of  such  development  project,  mass
     3  transportation project or park project.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     6  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     7  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
     8  on or before such effective date.
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