Bill Text: NY A08300 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a municipality to offset costs for municipal recycling projects by applying for additional funding without limiting the availability of state funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-23 - tabled [A08300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08300-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8300

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, FAHY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          allowing  a  municipality  to  offset  costs  for  municipal recycling
          projects by applying  for  additional  funding  without  limiting  the
          availability of state funding

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  54-0701  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as amended by section 15 of part SS of chapter 59 of
     3  the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. "Cost" means the capital cost  of  a  municipal  recycling  project
     5  including  engineering  and  architectural  services, surveys, plans and
     6  specifications; consultant and legal services; lands  acquired  pursuant
     7  to  the conditions set forth in section 54-0709 of this title, and other
     8  direct capital expenses incident to such a project[,  less  any  federal
     9  assistance or other assistance received or to be received]. "Cost" shall
    10  also include the capital, planning and promotional costs associated with
    11  waste reduction projects, the costs related to household hazardous waste
    12  collection  and  disposal  programs,  and the costs related to planning,
    13  educational and promotional activities  associated  with  a  recyclables
    14  recovery  program.  "Cost" shall also include beverage container assist-
    15  ance program grants to municipalities and  not-for-profit  organizations
    16  pursuant  to  section 27-1018 of this chapter. Provided, however, "cost"
    17  shall exclude any cost incurred prior to April first,  nineteen  hundred
    18  ninety-three,  and  shall  further  exclude  costs  related to planning,
    19  educational and promotional activities  associated  with  a  recyclables
    20  recovery program incurred prior to April first, two thousand.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13175-01-1