Excludes from reporting requirements relating to environmental quality reviews actions to approve the siting or construction of housing in cities with a population of one million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4902
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV, BROOK-KRASNY, FITZPATRICK, CHANG,
PIROZZOLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
certain actions being excluded from reporting requirements relating to
environmental quality reviews
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 8-0111
2 of the environmental conservation law, paragraph (b) as amended by
3 section 1 of part BBB of chapter 55 of the laws of 2021 and paragraph
4 (c) as amended by chapter 617 of the laws of 1987, are amended and a new
5 paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:
6 (b) Actions subject to the provisions requiring a certificate of envi-
7 ronmental compatibility and public need in articles seven, ten and the
8 former article eight of the public service law or requiring a siting
9 permit under section ninety-four-c of the executive law; [or]
10 (c) Actions subject to the class A or class B regional project juris-
11 diction of the Adirondack park agency or a local government pursuant to
12 section eight hundred seven, eight hundred eight or eight hundred nine
13 of the executive law, except class B regional projects subject to review
14 by local government pursuant to section eight hundred seven of the exec-
15 utive law located within the Lake George park as defined by subdivision
16 one of section 43-0103 of this chapter[.]; or
17 (d) Actions to approve the siting or construction of housing in cities
18 with a population of one million or more.
19 § 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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