Bill Text: NY S04448 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4448 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04448 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04448-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4448
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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  SHALL NOT BE SITED WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF THE BOUNDARY
    9  OF  ANY  SCHOOL PROPERTY. FURTHERMORE, NO LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED TO ANY
   10  INDIVIDUAL TO OPERATE ANY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL  STATION,  RADIOAC-
   11  TIVE  WASTE  TRANSFER  STATION,  HAZARDOUS  WASTE  DISPOSAL  STATION, OR
   12  HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSFER STATION WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET
   13  OF THE BOUNDARIES OF A SCHOOL PROPERTY.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10693-01-1