Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2103--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, MAY -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
directing the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the
environmental radiation surveillance program
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 3-0301 of the environmental
2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph ii to read as
3 follows:
4 ii. Provide freely and make publicly available on its website an annu-
5 al report on radioactive releases or disposals, with respect to informa-
6 tion gathered regarding such activities pursuant to 6 NYCRR 380. In
7 conjunction with the department of health, such report shall be analyzed
8 to show trends and the cumulative impact of such radioactive releases or
9 disposals; provided that other relevant agencies shall be notified if
10 contamination has exceeded standards for maximum allowable level permit-
11 ted in drinking water or food sources, as prescribed by applicable state
12 and federal law;
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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