Adds Falls Brook, Jones Brook, Kelso Brook, Minerva Stream, and Trout Brook to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2646
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding Falls Brook,
Jones Brook, Kelso Brook, Minerva Stream, and Trout Brook to the defi-
nition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitaliza-
tion
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 911 of the execu-
2 tive law, as separately amended by chapters 382 and 397 of the laws of
3 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek located in
5 Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinderhook Creek located
6 in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rensselaer county, Bash-
7 er Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, North Chuctanunda, Cincinna-
8 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Falls Brook
9 in Essex county, Ferguson, Fish (including east and west branches),
10 Gooseberry, Great Valley, Jones Brook in Essex county, Kelso Brook in
11 Essex county, Kennyetto, Little Sandy, Minerva Stream in Essex county,
12 Moyer, Mud Creek located in Oneida county, Ninemile Creek, Onondaga,
13 Oriskany, Peekskill Hollow, Reall, Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout, Sandy,
14 Sauquoit, Schoharie, Shawangunk Kill, Six Mile Creek, South Sandy,
15 Oatka, Tonawanda, Trout Brook in Essex county, West Kill, Scajaquada,
16 Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Willsey in the village of Wurtsboro, Wood
17 Creek located in Herkimer county, Wood Creek located in Oneida county,
18 Black Creek located in Monroe county, Black Creek located in Genesee and
19 Wyoming counties, Ellicott Creek located in Erie county, Wynantskill,
20 Claverack, Taghkanic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek and Butternut
21 Creek located in Onondaga county, Nanticoke and Sawkill (in Ulster coun-
22 ty), Saw Kill and Fall Kill located in Dutchess county, Otter Kill Creek
23 located in Orange county, Black Meadow Creek located in Orange county,
24 and the Silver Lake Outlet located in Wyoming county;
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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