Bill Text: NY A03079 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits stewardship agreements for the preservation of a natural resource from authorizing the destruction or alteration of the natural resource in a manner inconsistent with the state's natural resource preservation policies; requires the department of environmental conservation to give public notice of any proposed adopt-a-natural resource stewardship agreement in the state environmental notice bulletin not less than 30 days before final approval of such agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A03079 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03079-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3079
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
         adopt-a-natural resource stewardship program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 9-0113 of
    2  the environmental conservation law is designated paragraph a and  a  new
    3  paragraph b is added to read as follows:
    4    B.  SUCH  PROCEDURES SHALL PROVIDE THAT NO STEWARDSHIP AGREEMENT SHALL
    5  AUTHORIZE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATURAL RESOURCE NOR THE ALTERATION  OF
    6  SUCH  RESOURCE  IN A MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW, RULES AND REGU-
    7  LATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. SUCH PROCEDURES SHALL
    8  PROHIBIT THE USE OF HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT TO CONSTRUCT, REFURBISH
    9  OR BUILD PROJECTS  PURSUANT  TO  THE  STEWARDSHIP  AGREEMENT;  PROVIDED,
   10  HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH  PROCEDURES SHALL NOT PROHIBIT THE USE OF HAND-HELD
   11  EQUIPMENT.  EVERY PROJECT SHALL BE SUBJECT  TO  THE  MANAGEMENT  OF  THE
   12  DEPARTMENT.
   13    S  2.  Section 9-0113 of the environmental conservation law is amended
   14  by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   15    9.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  PROVIDE  PUBLIC  NOTICE  OF  ANY  PROPOSED
   16  ADOPT-A-NATURAL  RESOURCE  STEWARDSHIP  AGREEMENT  IN THE STATE ENVIRON-
   17  MENTAL NOTICE BULLETIN NO LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO FINAL APPROVAL
   18  BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law; provided that  any  rules,  regulations  and
   21  procedures  necessary  to  implement  the  provisions of this act on its
   22  effective date shall be  promulgated,  amended  and/or  repealed  on  or
   23  before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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