STATE OF NEW YORK
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6888
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BEEPHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding Fishkill Creek
to the definition of inland waterways
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 911 of the execu-
2 tive law, as separately amended by chapters 382 and 397 of the laws
3 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek located in
5 Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinderhook Creek located
6 in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rensselaer county, Bash-
7 er Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, North Chuctanunda, Cincinna-
8 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Ferguson,
9 Fish (including east and west branches), Gooseberry, Great Valley,
10 Kennyetto, Little Sandy, Moyer, Mud Creek located in Oneida county,
11 Ninemile Creek, Onondaga, Oriskany, Peekskill Hollow, Reall, Roeliff
12 Jansen Kill, Rondout, Sandy, Sauquoit, Schoharie, Shawangunk Kill, Six
13 Mile Creek, South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West Kill, Scajaquada,
14 Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Willsey in the village of Wurtsboro, Wood
15 Creek located in Herkimer county, Wood Creek located in Oneida county,
16 Black Creek located in Monroe county, Black Creek located in Genesee and
17 Wyoming counties, Ellicott Creek located in Erie county, Wynantskill,
18 Claverack, Taghkanic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek and Butternut
19 Creek located in Onondaga county, Nanticoke and Sawkill (in Ulster coun-
20 ty), Fishkill Creek, Saw Kill and Fall Kill located in Dutchess county,
21 Otter Kill Creek located in Orange county, Black Meadow Creek located in
22 Orange county, and the Silver Lake Outlet located in Wyoming county;
23 § 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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