Bill Text: NY S03545 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to environmental quality reviews of housing development projects that propose to build twenty or more units; provides that municipalities shall not be prohibited from performing their own environmental reviews.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03545-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3545

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 envi-
          ronmental quality reviews of certain housing development projects

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  8-0107 of the environmental conservation law, as
     2  added by chapter 612 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 8-0107. Agency implementation.
     4    1. All agencies shall review their present statutory authority, admin-
     5  istrative regulations, and  current  policies  and  procedures  for  the
     6  purpose  of determining whether there are any deficiencies or inconsist-
     7  encies therein which prohibit full  compliance  with  the  purposes  and
     8  provisions  of this article, and shall recommend or effect such measures
     9  as may be necessary to bring their authority and policies into conformi-
    10  ty with the intent, purposes, and procedures set forth in this  article.
    11  They  shall  carry out its terms with minimum procedural and administra-
    12  tive delay, shall avoid unnecessary duplication of reporting and  review
    13  requirements  by providing, where feasible, for combined or consolidated
    14  proceedings, and shall expedite all proceedings hereunder in the  inter-
    15  ests of prompt review.  Time periods set forth in this article or estab-
    16  lished  pursuant  to  regulation  shall  be  mandatory  and shall not be
    17  subject to any period of extension unless the applicant or project spon-
    18  sor agrees to a period of extension.
    19    2. Nothing in this article shall prohibit a municipality from perform-
    20  ing its own environmental review, based on rules and regulations promul-
    21  gated by the department, of a housing development project, and issuing a
    22  denial for a permit based on such review.
    23    § 2. Paragraph (iii) of subdivision 5 of section 8-0105 of  the  envi-
    24  ronmental  conservation  law,  as  amended by chapter 228 of the laws of
    25  1976, is amended and a new paragraph (iv) is added to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iii) maintenance  or  repair  involving  no  substantial  changes  in
     2  [exsiting] existing structure or facility[.]; or
     3    (iv)  a  housing  development project that proposes to build twenty or
     4  more units.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.