STATE OF NEW YORK
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10165
IN ASSEMBLY
May 13, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the Clav-
erack Creek, the Taghkanic Creek and the Agawamuck Creek as parts of
the inland waterway system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 911 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 2012, paragraph (a) as separately
3 amended by chapters 92 and 97 of the laws of 2015, paragraph (b) as
4 separately amended by chapters 95, 96 and 97 of the laws of 2015 and
5 paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 2015, is amended
6 to read as follows:
7 4. "Inland waterways" shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
8 consisting of lakes Ballston, Big Tupper, Black, Campfire, Canadarago,
9 Canandaigua, Cayuga, Champlain, Chateaugay, Chautauqua, Conesus, Cran-
10 berry, Echo (in the county of Westchester), George, Great Sacandaga,
11 Honeoye, Indian, Keuka, Long, Mirror, Oneida, Onondaga, Otisco, Otsego,
12 Owasco, Peach, Placid, Raquette, Ronkonkoma, Sacandaga, Saratoga,
13 Schroon, Seneca, Skaneateles, Silver (in the county of Wyoming) and
14 Saranac, and the Fulton chain of lakes; (b) the state's major rivers
15 comprised of the Allegheny, Ausable, Battenkill, Black, Boquet, Bronx,
16 Canisteo, Chaumont (including Chaumont bay), Chemung, Cohocton, Dela-
17 ware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Great Chazy, Hoosic, Hudson north of the
18 federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little (in the Adirondack park), Little
19 Ausable, Little Salmon (including north and south branches), Mad,
20 Mettowee, Mohawk, Oswegatchie, Pocantico, Racquette, Sacandaga, Salmon,
21 Saranac, Saw Mill, Schroon, Susquehanna, Tioga, Tioughnioga, Wallkill
22 and Buffalo rivers, and the north and middle branches of the Moose
23 river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek
24 located in Erie county, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cincinnati, East Kill,
25 Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish (including east and
26 west branches), Gooseberry, Little Sandy, Onondaga, Sandy, Schoharie,
27 South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West Kill, Scajaquada, Wappinger [and],
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Wynantskill, Claverack, Taghkanic and Agawamuck; (d) the Barge Canal
2 System as defined in section two of the canal law; and (e) the adjacent
3 shorelands to the extent that such inland waters and adjacent lands are
4 strongly influenced by each other including, but not limited to,
5 islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs, bluffs and
6 erosion prone areas.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
