Requires for construction activities that require a state pollutant discharge elimination system permit owners and operators to submit a copy of the required public notice; requires each county receiving such notice to make such notice publicly available on its website.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7882
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 11, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
requiring for construction activities that require a state pollutant
discharge elimination system permit owners and operators to submit a
copy of the required public notice
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 17-0805 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
3 follows:
4 a-1. (i) For storm water from construction activities that requires a
5 SPDES permit, the owner or operator shall provide a copy of the public
6 notice required by paragraph a of this subdivision to the county or
7 counties in which such construction activities take place, and all other
8 counties, the waters of which may be affected.
9 (ii) Each county receiving such notice shall make such notice publicly
10 available on its website in a manner prescribed by the department.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the imple-
14 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made
15 and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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