Bill Text: NY S06934 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the cancer incidence and environmental facility maps to be updated at least once every 5 years; directs the environmental public health tracking program technical advisory group to make recommendations relating thereto on a biennial basis; extends from March 31, 2016 to March 31, 2020, the expiration of the provisions of law providing for the cancer incidence and environmental facility maps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S06934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06934-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6934
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 8, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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 and the public health
          law, in relation to the updating of cancer incidence and environmental
          facility maps; and to amend chapter 77 of the laws  of  2010  amending
          the  environmental conservation law and the public health law relating
          to an environmental facility and cancer incidence map, in relation  to
          extending the expiration date of the provisions thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision  2  of  section  3-0317  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation law, as added by chapter 77 of the laws of 2010, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    2.  The  department shall, pursuant to established security protocols,
     5  provide to the department of health the  GPS  coordinates,  category  of
     6  license  or  permit,  facility  identification  number,  and  address on
     7  current environmental facilities that are necessary for  the  department
     8  of  health  to  develop  and maintain cancer incidence and environmental
     9  facility maps required pursuant to section twenty-four hundred one-b  of
    10  the public health law, and shall provide any technical assistance neces-
    11  sary  for  the development of such maps. The department, in consultation
    12  with the department of health, shall update such data [periodically] not
    13  less than once every five years.
    14    §  2. Subdivisions 3 and 9 of section 2401-b of the public health law,
    15  as added by chapter 77 of the laws of  2010,  are  amended  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    3.  The technical advisory group shall make recommendations biennially
    18  to the department on the appropriate use and communication of the cancer
    19  incidence and environmental facility maps.  Such  recommendations  shall
    20  consider  the  scientific  strengths and limitations of such mapping and
    21  overlay methodologies for cancer  tracking  and  geospatial  linking  to
    22  significant disease risk factors, and the appropriate means for communi-
    23  cating such strengths and limitation to the public in an easily discern-
    24  ible  manner.  The  department shall consider the recommendations of the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13778-02-6