Bill Text: NY A02439 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that upon notification of a petroleum discharge, the department of environmental conservation shall notify the municipal chief executive and landowners or tenants adjacent to or neighboring the site of the discharge whose property or drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A02439 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02439-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2439
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, D'URSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the navigation  law,  in  relation  to  notification  of
          petroleum discharge
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 175 of the navigation law, as amended by chapter 35
     2  of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 175. Notification by  persons  responsible  for  discharge.  1.  Any
     4  person  responsible for causing a discharge shall immediately notify the
     5  department pursuant to rules and regulations established by the  depart-
     6  ment,  but  in no case later than two hours after the discharge. Failure
     7  to so notify shall make persons liable  to  the  penalty  provisions  of
     8  section  [192]  one hundred ninety-two of this article.  Notwithstanding
     9  the provisions of any other law, such  notification  to  the  department
    10  shall  be  deemed  to fulfill the notification requirements of any other
    11  state or local law.
    12    2. Upon notification of a discharge, pursuant to  subdivision  one  of
    13  this  section,  the  department  shall  immediately notify the municipal
    14  chief executive, all landowners or tenants adjacent to the site  of  the
    15  discharge  and/or  any  nearby  landowners  or tenants whose property or
    16  drinking water supply may be potentially impacted by such discharge.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06881-01-9