Bill Text: NY S03656 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts inland lakes which are navigable waterways and have an area of 150 acres or more from wetlands designations, not including great lakes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03656-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3656

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 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
          exempting certain inland lakes from wetlands designations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 24-0301 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  Inland  lakes which are navigable waterways and which have an area
     4  of one hundred fifty acres or more shall be exempt from designation as a
     5  freshwater wetland, whenever the commissioner is delineating  boundaries
     6  of  freshwater  wetlands  pursuant to this section. For purposes of this
     7  section, "inland lake" shall not include any of the great lakes.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08097-01-5