Provides that the commissioner of environmental conservation shall place and operate certain air quality monitoring systems in proximity to NY city airports.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5543
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HOOKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring the commissioner of environmental conservation to place
certain air quality monitoring systems within a one-mile radius of all
airports located within a city having a population of one million or
more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 19-0322 to read as follows:
3 § 19-0322. Air quality monitoring systems required within a one-mile
4 radius of all airports within a city having a population of
5 one million or more.
6 1. The commissioner shall place and operate an ambient air quality
7 monitor network within a one-mile radius of all airports in cities
8 having a population of one million or more. The network shall contin-
9 uously measure data for ozone, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen,
10 carbon dioxide, meteorological data, PM 1.0 and PM 2.5. The network
11 shall also include an automated data acquisition system employed to poll
12 the sites to retrieve readings into a central data management system.
13 The data shall undergo verification and validation by a supervising site
14 engineer which shall follow established quality assurance and quality
15 control procedures.
16 2. The commissioner shall place and operate a photochemical assessment
17 monitoring station and a national ambient toxic trend station within a
18 one-mile radius of all airports located within a city having a popu-
19 lation of one million or more. Such stations shall monitor volatile
20 organic compounds as ozone precursors during the summer ozone season for
21 the purpose of determining the quality of ambient air and developing
22 programs to target appropriate source categories for emission reduction.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. The commissioner or such commissioner's representative, shall peri-
2 odically meet with site engineers, local community organizations and
3 elected officials representing the area in which an airport is located,
4 to inform them of the results of the air quality monitoring and, if
5 necessary, to recommend or establish programs to mitigate any adverse
6 ambient air quality.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law.
