Requires that an assessment of the role that permit approvals for air contamination sources plays in contributing to stationary and mobile sources of air pollution be included in an addendum to the strategies for the development of community emission reduction programs; requires disclosure of last mile warehouse permits.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2493
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ -- 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 the
community air monitoring program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 75-0115 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding two new subdivisions 5 and 6 to read as follows:
3 5. Within one year of the effective date of this subdivision, the
4 department shall prepare an addendum to the report on strategies to
5 reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants
6 in disadvantaged communities, as described in subdivision three of this
7 section, which shall include the following:
8 a. an assessment of the role that the department's approval or disap-
9 proval for permits and certificates for air contamination sources, as
10 authorized in paragraph j of subdivision two of section 19-0305 of this
11 chapter, plays in contributing to such stationary and mobile sources of
12 pollution and their relative contribution to elevated exposure to air
13 pollution in impacted communities; and
14 b. a detailed description of the role that the department's operating
15 permit program for sources subject to Title V of the federal Clean Air
16 Act, as described in section 19-0311 of this chapter, in particular
17 plays in contributing to such stationary and mobile sources of
18 pollution.
19 6. a. The department shall release, in conjunction with the addendum
20 report described in subdivision five of this section, a listing of all
21 last mile warehouses receiving permits and certificates for air contam-
22 ination sources as authorized in paragraph j of subdivision two of
23 section 19-0305 of this chapter. As used in this subdivision "last mile
24 warehouse" shall refer to a facility that: (i) contains at least fifty
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 thousand square feet of total floor space that is used for warehouse
2 activities; and (ii) has as its primary purpose the temporary storage,
3 sorting, and redistribution of goods to fulfill e-commerce orders by
4 receiving shipments of goods from one mode of transport and redistribut-
5 ing those goods via a delivery vehicle. A "last mile warehouse" shall
6 not include any facility where goods are manufactured or assembled on
7 site and temporarily stored prior to distribution, or any facility that
8 has as its primary purpose the temporary storage of food products for
9 wholesale distribution.
10 b. The department shall represent the last mile warehouses receiving
11 permits and certificates for air contamination sources described in
12 paragraph a of this subdivision on a statewide map to be maintained on a
13 publicly accessible website. In designing and maintaining such map, the
14 department shall allow a user of such website to view the distribution
15 of such warehouses across the state separately from and in conjunction
16 with any other category of facility, site, parcel, area, trail, or other
17 category of information on such map.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
