Bill Text: NY S00720 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes an independent state monitorship to oversee containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with the Northrop Grumman Bethpage Facility and Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of Bethpage within the town of Oyster Bay and compliance by Northrop Grumman and any other parties responsible for such containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup with any operative consent decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00720-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           720

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- 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, in relation  to  the
          Bethpage community park cleanup independent state monitorship

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 15-0518 to read as follows:
     3  § 15-0518. Bethpage  community  park  cleanup independent state monitor-
     4               ship.
     5    Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  an  independent
     6  state monitorship shall be established to oversee the containment, reme-
     7  diation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with
     8  the  Northrop  Grumman  Bethpage  Facility  and Naval Weapons Industrial
     9  Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of Bethpage within the town of  Oyster
    10  Bay and compliance by Northrop Grumman and any other parties responsible
    11  for such containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup with any oper-
    12  ative  consent  decrees,  consent judgments, settlements, or agreements.
    13  The independent state monitorship shall consist of the county  executive
    14  of  Nassau  county or their designee; the town supervisor of the town of
    15  Oyster Bay or their designee; members of the  assembly  whose  districts
    16  represent  the town of Oyster Bay; members of the senate whose districts
    17  represent the town of Oyster Bay; and the commissioner or  their  desig-
    18  nee.  Upon  the  issuance  of relevant findings by the independent state
    19  monitorship  demonstrating  noncompliance  with  any  operative  consent
    20  decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements by Northrop Grum-
    21  man  or the federal government, the office of the attorney general shall
    22  pursue affirmative litigation remedies resulting in  actual  remediation
    23  and  appropriate damages. The independent state monitorship shall report
    24  its findings to the governor; the attorney general; the temporary presi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 720                              2

     1  dent of the senate; the speaker of the assembly; the minority leader  of
     2  the  senate;  and the minority leader of the assembly within one hundred
     3  eighty days of its first meeting.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.