Requires the installation of air quality monitors in all subway stations; requires data from the air quality monitors to be accessible to the public; requires remedial action to improve air quality when it is found to exceed safe levels.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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723
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
installation of air quality monitors in all subway stations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1266-n to read as follows:
3 § 1266-n. Air quality monitors in subway stations. 1. The authority
4 shall install air quality monitors inside every subway station and real
5 time data from each air quality monitor shall be accessible to the
6 public on its website and in the station in which the air quality moni-
7 tor is located.
8 2. The air quality monitors shall analyze air quality on at least ten
9 separate occasions per day in the subway station in which they are
10 located for the presence of fine particulates, with the air quality
11 being analyzed at least twice during the periods when there is peak
12 ridership during the morning and evening commutes.
13 3. If an air quality monitor indicates that the air quality exceeds
14 safe levels for fine particulates, as determined by the United States
15 environmental protection agency, the authority shall take immediate
16 remedial action to improve air quality, including but not limited to,
17 installing air filters and/or fans.
18 4. The authority in consultation with the department of health shall
19 determine the cost of installing subway platform screen doors in subway
20 stations with the worst air quality as determined by the air quality
21 monitors installed pursuant to the provisions of this section.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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