Bill Text: NY S00214 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 214 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes that areas containing lead-contaminated soil shall have the levels of lead contamination decreased to 300 ppm for residential areas and 1,000 ppm for commercial areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00214-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           214
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the environmental conservation
          law, in relation to the remediation of lead contaminated soil
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
     3    31. The commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of environ-
     4  mental conservation shall require that areas containing lead-contaminat-
     5  ed  soil  shall  have  the levels of lead contamination decreased to the
     6  level of three hundred ppm (parts per  million)  for  residential  zoned
     7  areas  and one thousand ppm for areas zoned for commercial and/or indus-
     8  trial development.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0301 of the environmental conservation
    10  law is amended by adding a new paragraph nn to read as follows:
    11    nn. The commissioner in consultation with the commissioner  of  public
    12  health, as required by subdivision thirty-one of section two hundred six
    13  of  the public health law, shall require that areas containing lead-con-
    14  taminated soil shall have the levels of lead contamination decreased  to
    15  the level of three hundred ppm (parts per million) for residential zoned
    16  areas  and one thousand ppm for areas zoned for commercial and/or indus-
    17  trial development.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    20  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    21  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    22  on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01759-01-9