Bill Text: NY S03595 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Imposes penalties upon a state agency, public authority or public benefit corporation, which fails to complete a remediation plan within the projected time schedule for such plan; provides that upon such failure such agency shall be subject to a public hearing and required to explain the failure to complete the plan; provides that an amended plan shall be imposed which provides for involvement by community groups; provides that subsequent failure to remediate shall result in a fine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03595 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S03595-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3595--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 25, 2009
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       Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HUNTLEY, PARKER, THOMPSON
         -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
         the  Committee  on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,
         bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
         committee
       AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to state
         agency environmental audits
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3-0311 of the environmental  conservation  law,  as
    2  amended by chapter 741 of the laws of 1991, is amended by adding two new
    3  subdivisions 7 and 8 to read as follows:
    4    7.  UPON  COMPLETION  OF  A REMEDIAL PLAN THE AGENCY SHALL GIVE PUBLIC
    5  NOTICE OF SUCH COMPLETION.
    6    8. WHENEVER A REMEDIATION PLAN IS NOT COMPLETED WITHIN  THE  PROJECTED
    7  TIME  SCHEDULE, THE AGENCY SHALL REQUEST THE FUNDING FOR THE REMEDIATION
    8  PLAN WITHIN ITS NEXT BUDGET PREPARATION AND THE DEPARTMENT SHALL:
    9    A. HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING WHEREIN THE AGENCY SHALL PROVIDE:
   10    (1) AN EXPLANATION FOR ITS FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE TIME SCHEDULE.
   11    (2) AN AMENDMENT TO SUCH REMEDIATION PLAN WHICH  PROVIDES  OPPORTUNITY
   12  FOR  PARTICIPATION  BY APPROPRIATE CITIZENS GROUPS OR WHERE APPROPRIATE,
   13  AN ALTERNATIVE REMEDIATION PLAN WHICH PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY  FOR  PARTIC-
   14  IPATION BY APPROPRIATE CITIZENS GROUPS.
   15    B. ISSUE AN ORDER WITHIN THIRTY DAYS AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING, DIRECTING
   16  THE  AGENCY  TO  COMPLETE  THE  REMEDIATION PLAN AND IF SUCH PLAN IS NOT
   17  COMPLETED OR AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN IS REJECTED, THEN THE DEPARTMENT  SHALL
   18  CITE  THE  AGENCY WITH A VIOLATION THEREFOR.  UPON CONVICTION THE AGENCY
   19  SHALL PAY A FINE AS PROVIDED IN THIS CHAPTER FOR EACH VIOLATION.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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