Bill Text: NY A03682 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes environmental standards for ambient lead and lead contamination in soils and on floors and window sills.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - referred to environmental conservation [A03682 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03682-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3682

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 29, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT directing  the  departments  of  environmental  conservation  and
          health  to establish environmental standards for ambient lead and lead
          contamination  in  soils;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of   such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature  finds  and  declares
     2  that  there  is  a  present  need  to  establish New York standards with
     3  respect to levels of ambient lead and levels of  lead  contamination  in
     4  soils  and  on  floors  and window sills. The legislature finds that the
     5  current regulatory standards  are  inadequate  to  protect  the  general
     6  public  and  particularly  small  children  from  the harmful effects of
     7  ingesting or inhaling lead dust, often resulting from  lead  paint,  and
     8  coming  into  contact  with  lead  on  exposed surfaces. The legislature
     9  declares that it shall be the  responsibility  of  the  commissioner  of
    10  environmental  conservation,  in  consultation  with the commissioner of
    11  health, to adopt standards for ambient lead and  lead  contamination  of
    12  soil  and windows and floors, in a manner that would be fully protective
    13  of children's health, and in accordance with the procedures set forth in
    14  the environmental conservation law.
    15    § 2. a. No later than March 31, 2026, the departments of environmental
    16  conservation and health shall propose  new  standards,  and  update  any
    17  existing  standards  as  appropriate,  for  dust lead hazards, soil-lead
    18  hazards and ambient air quality standards for the level of lead in vari-
    19  ous media that will result in blood lead levels that are no higher  than
    20  a target that is fully protective of human health and which at a minimum
    21  include  consideration  of  recommendations from the centers for disease
    22  control.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    b. No later than June 1, 2026, such departments shall issue  a  report
     2  to the legislature describing the status of such reviews, adoptions, and
     3  revisions and expected health improvements resulting therefrom.
     4    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1,  2026.
     6  Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
     7  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
     8  tive  date  are  authorized  to  be made and completed on or before such
     9  date.