STATE OF NEW YORK
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6529
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting marine solid waste transfer stations located in proximity
to public housing projects in certain cases
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 27-0721 to read as follows:
3 § 27-0721. Marine solid waste transfer station or facilities.
4 Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of state or local law or
5 regulation, neither the department nor any local agency, department or
6 authority shall issue a permit, regulation, or renew a permit or approve
7 an application for the expansion, construction, relocation, reactivation
8 or operation of a marine solid waste transfer station or facility in a
9 city with a population of one million or more, where any part of such
10 station or facility is to be located within eight hundred feet of a
11 housing project as the term project is defined in subdivision fourteen
12 of section three of the public housing law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11042-01-5
