Designates the Montauk Point shoals as an important bird area; directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to designate such area as part of the New York state bird conservation area program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5550
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
designating the Montauk Point shoals area as an important bird area
and making such area part of the New York state bird conservation area
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11-2001 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. a. The Montauk Point shoals area of the county of Suffolk, having
4 met the criteria of subdivision three of this section, is hereby
5 declared to be an important bird area and the commissioner shall desig-
6 nate such area as part of the New York state bird conservation area
7 program.
8 b. For the purposes of this title, "Montauk Point shoals area" means
9 those marine and coastal areas off the shore of Montauk Point, in the
10 county of Suffolk, extending to the coastal waters within a sixty foot
11 bathymetric contour that encompasses the area beginning just west of
12 Shagwong Point on the northern shore of Montauk Point, continuing east
13 around Montauk Point, and terminating just east of Ditch Plains on the
14 Atlantic Ocean side of Montauk Point. Such area consisting of waters
15 that are sixty or less feet in depth, and within between three and one-
16 half to four miles from the shoreline. Provided, that the commissioner
17 shall be authorized to change the boundaries of such area, by rule, as
18 he or she shall deem necessary.
19 c. That portion of the New York state bird conservation area program
20 designated pursuant to this subdivision shall be known as the "Montauk
21 Point shoals bird conservation area".
22 d. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to impose new fishing
23 restrictions.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
25 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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